X is for Xenial over Xenophobia

Posted on April 28, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

XenialXenophobia
Hospitable
Treating guests and strangers with friendliness and generosity		Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

“They’re eating the dogs!” That was the battle cry during the 2024 election. I mean, really how much more xenophobic can you get? Ice grabbing up anybody that looks like the are from a foreign country whether they have committed crimes here or not. It’s just disgusting. Even the way #47 has treated some of the foreign leaders has been so undignified. (Zelenskyy for starters)

And yet, the ones that get the most hospitable treatment are the ones that bring golden gifts. I mean, I haven’t seen him give anyone else a gift but he sure likes to take them. The display he put on when Putin came was ridiculous.

I really pray that we can get some dignity back in the White House soon!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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W is for Working Families over the Well Connected

Posted on April 27, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Working FamiliesWell Connected
Regular people with normal lives raising kids and working everyday trying to get ahead and build a life.Those with lots of money who have friends in high places that can use their wealth to gain special favors.

So this one is kind of easy, isn’t it? We can surely see that those with money have power over the rest of us folks. From inauguration day when all those millionaires and billionaires were standing behind #47 as he took the “oath” of office it was clear to see who was going to be most important. The subsequent bills that have been passed cutting all the needed services like healthcare, veteran’s benefits, food supply, etc. in order to pay for tax cuts for those folks who truly don’t need another dime in their lifetimes absolutely shows what’s happening here.

Can we imagine for a moment what would have been possible had the woman won? There was talk about assistance with first time home buying, starting new businesses and more. Sounds much more in line with the common man, no?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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V is for Voting Rights over Voter Suppression

Posted on April 25, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Voting RightsVoter Suppression
Right to participate in elections
Ability to make your own choices for leaders		Taking away the right to vote
Making it difficult for certain people to vote

And this is another topic that is SO scary and totally unfair. To make women go through so many hoops to be able to vote is absolutely voter suppression. I have a passport so it’s okay for me but not everyone gets one of those. We had to show lots of ID when getting our “real id” driver’s licenses and it was a pain. Fortunately I had all the documents but a lot of folks don’t.

I have to laugh about old Caitlin Jenner and her dilemma about the passport saying that she is a male. And yet she still likes #45. He doesn’t seem to care too much about her problem. Probably because he knows she still approves of him regardless.

And knowing that registering to vote puts you in the “system” why would “illegal aliens” want to get themselves on the books like that. It doesn’t make sense. But then again, a lot of things going on now don’t make sense.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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U is for Understanding over Ugliness

Posted on April 24, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

UnderstandingUgliness
Compassion
Mutual agreement
Comprehension		Offensive
Hideous
Unpleasant

I am not sure what happened to all the compassion and understanding we had for our fellow humans. It sure seems that the members in congress that are in control now have lost all sense of that when it comes to passing the laws that will enable people to have affordable healthcare, help when they need it like Medicaid and even the help that Ukraine and other countries need during their difficult times.

Instead we get masked goons coming into our cities and terrorizing little children. We get concentration camps where who knows what is going on. And to be told lie upon lie upon lie is just offensive to my intelligence.

I’m from the SF Bay Area. Can we please just have some more peace, love and rock and roll?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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T is for Triumph over Tyranny

Posted on April 23, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

TriumphTyranny
Victory
Joy
Success		Oppressive power
Government with a single ruler
Harsh and unjust act

I think the best example of this lately is the victory in Hungary over Viktor Orban. He had been in power over the people of Hungary for 16 years! The corruption and oppression were terrible. He was old #47s idol (along with Putin). Even sending the vice-president over there to try to help Orban keep control didn’t work. The people had had enough.

It gives me such hope. Watching those Hungarians dance in the street after the election was exciting. I can’t wait until we can dance like that too!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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S is for Substance over Slander

Posted on April 22, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

SubstanceSlander
Fundamental characteristics
Ultimate reality
Weight
Practical importance		False charges that damage reputation False statements
Defamation of character

The most recent defamation lawsuit brought up by those incompetents is the one from Kash Patel regarding the reporting of alcohol abuse while on the job. I mean, just look at his eyes people. It seems to me that there is substance in those allegations because we all saw the video of him chugging the beer at the Olympics. Really dignified actions for the FBI Director.

Can we please go back to respectable times?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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R is for Reason over Racism

Posted on April 21, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

ReasonRacism
Rational motive
Logical
Something that makes sense
Explanation		Belief that race is a determinate of human traits.
Discrimination
Prejudice

One would think it reasonable to assume that after so many years of education and bringing the examples of how racism is rampant in our country to the forefront, it would not have been possible to elect such outright racists to the highest level of our government. But you know what they say about “assume.”

I had no idea, for example, about the racism shown in the medical profession especially in regard to pregnancy. In the last few years I have been doing transcription for projects that are researching the differences in care between the races and how hard it is for people of color to get the same care given to white women. It is amazing.

Will we ever learn?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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Q is for Quality of Life over QAnon

Posted on April 20, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Quality of LifeQAnon
General well-being
Healthy
Comfortable
Able to enjoy activities of daily living
Ability to afford to have a home, food, all the necessities and more		Far-right American political conspiracy theory and political movement. Believes the world is controlled by Satanic cabal. Believes there is a ring of pedophiles

I believe there may be a ring of pedophiles but they are not in the place that QAnon is looking. Let’s release the Epstein files and see, shall we?

I know I am guilty of taking my quality of life for granted. I hope that we can learn from this difficult period in our history and make the changes necessary not to repeat it ever again.

Feeling better and trying to catch up with my work so a short one today. Thanks for all your well-wishes. I got lucky and my symptoms were not extreme.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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P is for People over Politics

Posted on April 18, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

PeoplePolitics
Human beings
Friends
Neighbors
Kinship		Government
Policy
Political opinion
Affairs of state

Taking funding away from important programs like the Affordable Health Care Plan or Medicare so that the wealthy can have a huge tax break does not sound like putting people over politics. I understand that there are concerns about wasteful spending but to just arbitrarily defund programs doesn’t make sense to me. Have you seen the depositions of those two guys who were working with DOGE? They were being asked about the cancellation of things because of “DEI” and they couldn’t even articulate what DEI was! They used ChatGPT to help identify programs to cut. Another one was asked if he felt sorry for pulling the grants away from people who were doing important research. He said he did not feel sorry for them, he was trying to reduce the deficit. When asked if the deficit had been reduced, he said no.

This is a clip from a news report.

The smug look on their faces just tells it all.

Still a little under the weather so this is the best I can do for now.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress.

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O is for Opportunity over Obstruction

Posted on April 17, 2026 by scr4pl80 (Scrap Lady)

My theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It’s my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

OpportunityObstruction
Choice
Getting a chance to do something
A favorable situation
A way to move forward		Block
Hindrance
Obstacle
Interference

Putting this here as a place holder. Unfortunately I got COVID and I am drained! Talk about an obstacle!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

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