Jack of Harts

Somewhere around ten million illegal aliens have crossed the southern border since Biden opened it up three years ago. The latest influx appears to be tens of thousands of fighting age men from countries that have declared themselves our enemies. Hundreds are known and identified terrorists. Texas has declared this an Invasion, which opens up some interesting options. Mainly, the Federal government guarantees it will defend the States from Invasion in Article IV, Section 4. Texas has declared an Invasion in progress, and that the Federal government has broken the compact. Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 grants the States the power to wage war by themselves in case of invasion, and they say they are going to do it. Interesting times are afoot…

New Hampshire did their primary thing, and they are a far more liberal electorate than Iowa. But Joe never does well there, so the Democrats did a funny. They decreed that a State friendly to Joe would be the first primary. But the fine folks here have a law saying they have to be the first primary, so they ran a primary without Joe. So Joe ran a write-in campaign so he wouldn’t lose the primary he didn’t want to have happen. Meanwhile, more Democrats and Independents voted in the Republican Primary than Republicans did. Trump got more than half the vote for what looks like a double-digit win, while the loser looks to have gotten somewhere around three quarters of her votes from Democrats and Independents. Talk about interesting times…

One of the hardest parts of getting back into the writing gig has been… getting back into the writing. The muse that always has ideas doesn’t drive me like they it did before. Which sometimes makes it hard to write. So I’ve been looking around at various short story submission sites looking for story prompts for their open calls. I find one I like, and I start working on writing a story that covers that idea. It’s a good way to get the creative juices working again. Right now I’m working on writing a short story concerning a contested troop landing in the New New York system. When the New England Federation gets rid of people who do not promote the common peace, New New York is where they send them. Then the aliens attacked. The poor… poor… aliens…