Happy Anniversary

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Trish and Rob

Nine years ago today, on February 4, 2009, Rob and I started this blog, synchrosecrets. I’m not sure why we started the blog except that one day in late January 2009, I thought it might be a cool way explore synchronicity. I suggested it to Rob and he said, “What’s a blog?”

A few days earlier, our friend Nancy Pickard had told me about a blog she’d started and I asked her what a blog was and she explained. That was the start of it. Ever since, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who coined the phrase, has been dancing around the sideline of our lives – and sometimes right in the center of stuff!

What’s sort of comical about all this is that way back in 1981, on my first date with Rob, I asked him if he knew what synchronicity was.

Jung, right?” he replied. “Meaningful coincidence?”

And I thought, Okay, he’s a keeper.

Less than a year later, we were living together and about a year after that, we got married.

Synchronicity isn’t a religion, a creed, or even a belief system. It’s what occurs when you’re in the flow, open to impulses, unusual ideas, stuff that seems to fly at you from out of the blue. As Jung defined it, synchronicity is the coming together of the inner and outer worlds in a way that is meaningful to the observer (you) and can’t be explained by cause and effect. The simplest example? You’re thinking of someone you haven’t seen for years and the next minute, hour,   day, you receive a friend request on Facebook from that person.

The interesting thing about synchronicity is that it encompasses so much, so many areas of life. It’s a kind of quantum truth, one of the things that Jung uncovered in his therapies that can occur with your family, kids, romance, creativity, pivotal experiences, life after death, spirit communication, divination systems. King of breathtaking.

In 1975, during my first and only trip to Europe, I visited Bollingen, Jung’s stone castle on the shores of Lake Zurich. It was my goal for Switzerland. My traveling companion and I missed our train to Bollingen and got there later than we expected.

A young man and his dog were outside in the back yard of this magnificent structure and I struck up a conversation with him. He was Jung’s grandson. I said I was from the US and had read Jung’s autobiography and was, like, well, blown away by the fact that I was here, staring at the place Jung had built and talking to his descendant.

His grandson was gracious, pleasant, and infinitely patient, explaining how his parents had installed electricity in the place, and how, in doing so, he felt it had lost some of its magic. I don’t think that’s the word he used, but that was what he conveyed. We talked about synchronicity and the spirit contact Jung had experienced in his castle, and about dogs and souls. It is one of my most cherished and vivid memories.

Thanks to all of you who have joined us on this odd journey for the last nine years. I hope we someday figure it all out.

 

 

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Pole Shift

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Trish and Rob

 

Back somewhere in the 1980s, there was a flurry of interest in the phenomenon called the pole shift. There was a book by that title and other books predicting cataclysmic earth changes, such as Hal Lindsay’s The Great Late Planet Earth and other apocalyptic titles. Those books tended toward the speculative side favoring prophecy over science, largely because there wasn’t much credible science to support the idea that the poles were going to shift. Gradually the subject faded away and not much more was heard about—at least in popular culture—about an impending pole shift.

Now comes the revival of the pole shift and this time it has the wind of science behind it. Take a look:

“ONE DAY in 1905, the French geophysicist Bernard Brunhes brought back to his lab some rocks he’d unearthed from a freshly cut road near the village of Pont Farin. When he analyzed their magnetic properties, he was astonished at what they showed: Millions of years ago, the Earth’s magnetic poles had been on the opposite sides of the planet. North was south and south was north. The discovery spoke of planetary anarchy. Scientists had no way to explain it . When next the poles change places, the consequences for the electrical and electronic infrastructure that runs civilization will be dire. The question is when that will happen.
“Today we know that the poles have changed places hundreds of time, most recently 780,000 years ago. (Sometimes, the poles try to reverse positions, but then snap back into place, in what is called an excursion. The last time was about 40,000 years ago.) We also know that when they flip the next time, the consequences for the electrical and electronic infrastructure that runs modern civilization will be dire. The question is when will it happen.”

The above two paragraphs are  from an essay that was adapted the The Spinning Magnet: The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World—and could Destroy It, by Alanna Mitchell. The book was published January 30 by Dutton. A long sub-title, and the one for the essay is even longer…and more scary:

The Magnetic Field Is Shifting. The Poles May Flip. This Could Get Bad.
The shield that protects the Earth from solar radiation is under attack from within. We can’t prevent it, but we ought to prepare.

That pretty much summarizes the essay and no doubt the book. But are we to take this seriously, or is the author just trying to get our attention? Probably the answer is both. On one hand, it might take a couple of thousands of years or more before the pole shift takes place. In geological time, that’s virtually now. In human terms, it’s something out of our sight, a possibility in the distant future. Then again, combine with what science now knows about the unstable core with the unstable human domain in regard to a potential atomic attack somewhere, and we could be in big trouble.

Mitchell points out that the population of the world has doubled since 1970 and the planet is stressed. She says it’s time to wake up to the dangers and start preparing. Good luck with that when in the U.S. the climate change deniers are in power. But even if you don’t read the book, take a look at the essay. It spells out the dangers.

The pole shift could be lumped into the same realm as the mass arrival of aliens from elsewhere (and I don’t mean Mexico). Certainly either event would change our reality. One thing is certain, if the poles did shift in our lifetime, the consequences would be far more devastating than simply the North Pole becoming the South Pole…and visa-versa.

The shift would cause a serious weakening of the shield around our planet that protects us from radiation. The satellites that control our power grid would burn out in mass.  As a result: no lights, no computers. You couldn’t even flush your toilet or fill your car with gas. Not a pretty picture.

There’s also a related article out in Newsweek. It notes that pole shifts typically occur every 200,000 to 300,000 years. Except this time. There has been no pole shift for 780,000 years, and now signs from the Earth’s core indicate one could be approaching. Does that mean within years, within this century, a thousand years, five thousand  years. We don’t know.

 

 

 

 

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Your Unlimited Potential

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Trish and Rob

Whether you‘re an infant or a grandparent, your astrological birth chart is a blueprint of your unlimited potential. It holds vital clues and secrets about what you came in to experience and why, your creative gifts and talents, strengths and weaknesses, and how you can best evolve at every level in this lifetime. How you use this potential depends entirely on your free will.

Join me for a workshop on the astrological basics of a birth chart. Once you’ve mastered this material, it will be much easier for you to interpret how transits – the daily motion of the planets, sun and moon – affect your life. The only prerequisites are that you have your exact time of birth, so that I can email you your chart before the workshop starts, and a curiosity about who you are and how you can use this promised potential to achieve everything you desire.

You will receive a free natal chart, help with interpreting your own chart, and a copy of Trish’s ebook, Your Power Stars for 2018.

 THE WORKSHOP

The 4-hour workshop will be held once a week through a private Facebook group, Your Unlimited Potential. After each session, there will be plenty of time for discussion and questions.

When you study any foreign language, it’s easier to remember short, useful phrases – Water, beer; Where’s the bathroom? The train station? No, thank you – than to bite off verb conjugations and full sentences. In learning astrology, a symbolic language, we’ll apply that same technique in the first 2 hours of the workshop. Short easy to remember phrases will describe the archetypal meanings of the planets, sun, moon and the houses.

Hour 3 will cover the meanings of aspects in a birth chart – the angles the planets make to each other – and some of the quirkier, little known things found in charts.

Hour 4 is about putting together the entire holographic picture of your limitless potential.

Price: $40

Time: 7:30-8:30 ET

Dates: Feb 21, Feb 28, March 7, March 14

For a decade, I co-authored the Sydney Omarr series of astrology books with my husband, Rob. I’m also the author of Your Intuitive Moon, Mars and Sex, Your Story in the Stars, Creative Stars, The Everything Astrology Book, Cosmic Kids, Soul Mate Astrology, and Sydney Omarr’s Spirit Guides. I’ve been a practicing astrologer for 40 years.

If you’re interested in attending, leave a comment with your email address (it won’t be published) and I’ll contact you and invite you to the group. Thanks!

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Lunar Eclipse in Leo

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Trish and Rob

The January 31 total lunar eclipse is in fire sign, Leo. In some parts of the world, the totality of the eclipse will be visible. This one is a super blue blood lunar eclipse, the second full moon of the month, the first time since 1866 this has occurred. Click here to find out what you’ll be able to see where you live.

Lunar eclipses occur when the earth moves between the sun and the moon, cutting off the sun’s light to the moon. Usually, there are two lunar and two solar eclipses a year. In 2018, there will be three solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses. Solar dates: February 15 in Aquarius, July 13 in Cancer, and August 11 in Leo. The lunar eclipses are January 31  Leo and July 27 in Aquarius.

Astrologically, lunar eclipses tend to trigger inner, emotional events. This one should be positive, particularly for fire signs- Aries, Leo, Sagittarius – and air signs – Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius. But we all have these signs somewhere in our natal charts, so take note of what kinds of things happen to you today, what you experience emotionally. Sometimes, the effects of an eclipse don’t occur until a month to the day later.

Eclipses occur in 19-year cycles and the last time there was a lunar eclipse at 11-12 degrees Leo was January 31, 1999. If you can recall that far back (!) that something in particular happened, it may provide hints about what this eclipse could bring.

Eclipses that occur with the North Node of the moon tend to be positive. In the chart below, the North Node is represented by the horseshoe shape in the 7th house.

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Baba Varga and her prophecies

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Trish and Rob

As a young girl, she was caught in a tornado, ripped from the ground and hurled through the air. While in the grips of the storm, her eyes were covered with sharp stinging sand. She was missing for several days, and when she was found, she couldn’t open her eyes without great pain. It was soon determined that Vangeliya was blind, but she was already beginning to see in a different way.

Her married name was Vangelia Gushterova, but she would become known as Baba Varga, a mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist. When someone stood in front of her for a reading, she said she could literally see their entire lives. She could see events before they happened, both in the near and distant future. Included among them are two for 2018.

Baba Vanga, which means Grandmother Vanga in Bulgarian, died in 1996 at the age of 85, but not before she had predicted events all the way to the end of the world. Known as the Nostradamus of the Balkans, many of her prophecies are scary. Like Nostradamus, her predictions are often symbolic and need interpretation.

For instance, her prediction of 9-11 read this way:“Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds.The wolves will be howling in a bush and innocent blood will gush.” The steel birds, of course, could represent the airplanes that struck the World Trade Center buildings. The wolves could be the terrorists and the bush could be George W Bush, who of course was president during the event.

Baba Vanga accurately predicted that the 44th president of the U.S. would be an African-American man. However, she also said he would be the last president. Now we have Trump, who some contend is not a legitimate president, because he lost the popular vote and often acts non-presidential. But in spite of his behavior, he is the president and that seems to nullify that particular prediction.

Among other predictions were the 2004 tsunami, global warming and  the rise of ISIS. Her followers put Baba Vanga’s success rate at 85%. What qualifies as accurate is sometimes difficult to determine. For example, she predicted that Europe would cease to exist by 2016. That seems clearly wrong. However, some of her followers point out that was the same year that the vote on Brexit resulted in Great Britain departing from the European financial alliance. That changed Europe, but didn’t cause it to cease to exist.

For 2018, Baba Vanga predicted that China will become the new super power, by-passing the United States. Indeed, China’s economy is growing and could pass the U.S. economy, if not in 2018, then in coming years. The second prediction for this year: Humans will travel to Venus in search of new energy sources. They might even set up a colony there. It seems our eyes are more set on Mars than Venus. But there is a spacecraft—the Parker Solar Probe—that is scheduled to by-pass Venus and gain energy from the planet as it heads toward the sun.

Baba Varga also predicted that the year of 3797 would be the year when the party ends and everything on Earth will cease to exist. However, humans will be advanced enough to move to a new star system, she predicted. Let’s hope so.

 

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Psychics from the past

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Trish and Rob

Most people who have an interest—even a minor one—in the paranormal and psychic abilities have heard of Edgar Cayce, the so-called Sleeping Prophet. Much has been written about him and he is probably the best known psychic of the 20th century.

But what about Polish psychic Wolf Messing or the blind Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga? In spite of a lifetime of interest in all that is beyond strange in the realm of the sixth sense, until recently I didn’t know about either one. Messing’s name seemed vaguely familiar to both Trish and me, but that was it. Yet, both were quite well known in their day, if not in the U.S., in other parts of the world.

I guess what drew my attention to Messing were pictures of him, including the one above that made me think that he looked like one of the famed Marx Brothers. But Messing was no doubt entangled with a different Marx, who philosophy dominated the Soviet Union during much of the past century. Pictures of Messing came up when I looked up Baba Vanga after learning about her on a recent episode of Ancient Aliens. Yes, that show is still on the History Channel, now in its 12th season. I didn’t know that either until I received a call from a producer for the show, who wanted to talk about time travel and Beyond the Bermuda Triangle, which I co-authored with Bruce Gernon.

So who are these two mysterious characters from the past?

Let’s start with Wolf Messing. He was born in 1899 in a village southeast of Warsaw when Poland was part of the Soviet Union. He lived until 1974 and was known for his ability not only to read minds, but to affect minds. That caught the interest of the Soviet leaders who exploited psychics, such as Messing, for their own purposes. Messing was  a talented remote viewer, capable of psychically spying on people and places, and because of his ability to alter thoughts, he became an instructor in these matters for the notorious KGB—the Soviet’s spy agency.

In an interview with a Soviet magazine in 1961, Messing said: … It’s not mind-reading, it’s, like the “reading of muscles” “… When human thinks hard about something, the brain cells transmit impulses to all muscles of the body. Their movements, invisible to the eye, I can easily feel. … Often I’m performing mental tasks without direct contact with the inductor. The pointer to me here is the breathing frequency of inductor, the beating of his heart, voice timbre, his walking nature etc.”

In the ‘20s and ‘30s, Messing was the most famous psychic in Europe. He became well known while living in Germany where Einstein invited him to his home for an interview with him and Freud. In the encounter, Freud sent Messing a telepathic message. After focusing a few moments, Messing excused himself, went to the bathroom and returned with a tweezers and plugged a hair from Einstein’s mustache. Freud laughed and said that was exactly what he had mentally asked him to do.

Messing also predicted that Russia would invade Germany, even though at the time Stalin had a non-aggression treaty with the Nazis. He also predicted the end of the war to the month. Hitler saw Messing as a dangerous wild card and put a bounty on his head. That’s when Messing fled to Russia, where Stalin became interested in using him for military purposes. Interestingly, up to that time, Stalin had outlawed and imprisoned psychic practitioners.

Stalin tested Messing, first asking him to psychically rob a bank. Messing went to a bank and handed the teller a blank piece of paper and requested 100,000 rubles. The teller, believing he was looking at a certified request, did as he was told. A KGB agent planted in the bank watched the entire scenario unfold. Stalin’s next test was to see if Messing could get past the guards and enter his secured bunker. Again, Messing succeeded at the task, walking past guards inside and outside the compound, and even Stalin’s servants who were all KGB agents. When he walked into Stalin’s room without attracting any resistance, Stalin asked how he’d done it. Messing responded that he sent one thought to every guard telling them that he was the head of Stalin’s secret police.

It’s unknown if Stalin sent Messing on any psychic missions. Many documents from the Stalin years remain classified in Russia. Near the end of his life, Messing wrote an autobiography. But shortly after he announced its pending publication, the manuscript vanished and was never found.

In the next post, we’ll explore the life of Vangelia Gushterova, better known as Baba Vanga, and it was a fascinating one.

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Alchemy in Cassadaga

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Trish and Rob

We’re written before about Cassadaga, the Spiritualist community in central Florida where nearly everyone talks to the dead.   Recently, though, a series of synchronicities took place involving the town.

On January 7, I taught an astrology workshop at the Cassadaga Bookstore. The next day, I received an email from Whitley Strieber saying he was going to be in Cassadaga sometime in January and wondered if we lived close enough to join him. I thought he was headed there in connection with his recent book, Afterlife Revolution, that he wrote with his wife, Anne, who passed away on August 11, 2015. It turns out that Anne “called” Whitley there.

So on January 23, we drove up to Cassadaga with our daughter, Megan, and her roommate Tony, later joined us. We  met Whitley and our friend, Peter Levenda at the hotel. Peter is also an author  whose fascinating writing focuses primarily on the occult. His most recent book, Sekret Machines: volume 1 of Gods Man and War is co-authored with Tom Delonge. The book “transcends speculation and is based on unprecedented access to officials at the highest levels of government, military and industrial agencies who have provided insights and assistance never before experienced by any researchers in this controversial field.” (from Amazon)

What better place for writers about the paranormal to meet up than in a town of Spiritualists?

Over dinner – and lunch the next day- the conversation was all over the place.Whitley talked about how he and his wife, Anne, have been in contact since her death and how they wrote Afterlife Revolution together.

Peter, an expert on occult forces – in Nazi Germany, in alchemy, in the world! – talked about famous alchemists Thomas and Rebecca Vaughn, whom he wrote about in his book Tantric Alchemist.

Whitley offered our daughter, Megan, advice on writing (she’s working on her first novel) and her friend, Tony, who spent three years in LA trying to break in as a screenwriter, shared some of his experiences.

One of the most fascinating points in the discussion involved Whitley’s implant, which he has written about in his books. He explained how it affects the vision in his left eye. It’s as if a slit opens in his vision and words scroll across it. He has to adjust where he looks to be able to decipher it. The implant was inserted – by humans, not aliens – behind his left ear when he and Anne were living in their cabin in upstate New York, where his abduction experiences took place. On his website, he writes about what happened when he had surgery to remove the implant.Teaser: the surgery didn’t work. The implant moved.

Over dinner, we talked about  writing, UFOs, disclosure, climate change, spirit contact, alchemy, the publishing industry, Hollywood, Hitler and Nazi Germany and the uncanny parallels to Trump and his administration.

The climate change part of the conversation was unsettling, particularly with climate change deniers in the white house and as head of the EPA. Rob, Peter, and I live in South Florida, and are all intending to move. Whitley, who wrote the Coming Global Superstorm with Art Bell, on which the movie The Day After Tomorrow was based, believes that the water from the rapid melt of ice in the Arctic is pushing down on the ocean floor, compressing it. At some point, it will rebound and the explosion of rising water will be devastating.It will sink parts of the US coast just as fast as Atlantis sank.

At the core of this conversation lay questions about the nature of reality, how paranormal experiences – and contact with aliens (or whatever they are) and spirits – alter how you see the world and yourself within it. For most of the evening and the next day, I felt like I was in the presence of ancient alchemists. It was exhilarating.

The next morning, Whitley had a reading with psychometrist Kathy Adams and described it as “profound.” Kathy reads objects and picked up on something related to a novel Whitley is writing that no one else knows about.

I took the photo in the Cassadaga dining room, where these decorative lights that festooned the walls came out looking like orbs, a fitting backdrop!

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Synchronicity & the Other Side

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Trish and Rob

Finally available again, with a great cover from David Dodd at Crossroad Press.

$3.99 at Amazon

You see your grandmother’s favorite bird outside your window not long after her death.
You inexplicably feel drawn to vacation at a remote location you’ve never been to, only to discover that your ancestors lived there hundreds of years ago.
Everywhere you look, you notice the numbers 1111–on clocks, license plates, odometers.

Signs from the afterlife are everywhere–if you only know how to look. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll discover how meaningful coincidence–synchronicity–is key to your connecting with loved ones who have passed on.

Such contact can come to you through dreams and meditation, mediums and signs, and more. From the unexpected appearance of familiar animals, images, and sounds to clusters of numbers and objects, you’ll learn how to recognize when and how people from the other side are trying to connect with you.

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The Phoenix

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Trish and Rob

In college, I was a political junkie. Then again, it was the 60s and nearly everyone I knew was a political junkie because we were the ones who were pushing for change. We were the Baby Boomers, many of us rebels and rogues who were against Vietnam and the lottery system for the draft and all the atrocities that were occurring worldwide as a result of our interventions in other countries. Drugs, sex, and rock ‘n roll: that was the litany. We did have great music that galvanized this movement – Beatles, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Cher, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix…oh, and Woodstock.

But then many of us got married or started careers or families and cruised through the 70s and 80s and the Reagan years with a kind of ho-hum, it’s all the same story, what’s the point? Some of us became Republicans. Or Independents. Or Democrats. Or stopped participating altogether.

But then the 2000 election got hung up in Palm Beach County and ended up in the Supreme Court and W Bush stole an election. 9-11 happened. We invaded Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial meltdown of 2007-2008 came around. All of these events coalesced into the election of a brilliant senator from Illinois and our first African-American president, who turned around and appointed his opponent, Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State.

Suddenly, politics started looking as crazy as it was in the 60s, but with some significant differences: the Internet, social media, news 24/7 on the cable channels. We had immediate access to so much information that not very much remained hidden for very long.

8 years of W Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and the rest of his cabal brought us 8 years of Obama and the class act of the Obama family. He wasn’t perfect, but he came close to moving this country in the direction of a true democracy. And he brought out all the closet racists. But it was the Democratic Party that failed in 2016, with Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigging the party for Clinton rather than granting Bernie Sanders equal prime time for debates. So many dems wanted a woman as president and Clinton seemed to be entitled…

And now here we are in trumpland, the worst and possibly the darkest and most dangerous period in our democracy.  My hope, which is rather fragile and small right now, is that trump’s attempts at immersing the U.S. in Fascism and a thinly disguised dictatorship will result in a well-deserved impeachment and force the pendulum in the opposite direction: a 2020 ticket of women like Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand.

Men have ruled this country since 1776. It’s time now for women to have a shot at it all. Forget the old reptilian guys like Mitch McConnell and Jeff Sessions or the younger Ayn Rand dudes like Paul Ryan, who go all weak in the knees when trump snaps at them. Forget the hypocrites like Corker, Flake, Collins, Markowski, even McCain the so-called maverick. These people are the old paradigm. This country is crying out for politicians and political ideals that support Democracy rather than trying to tear it apart by criticizing the very institutions of check and balances that prove we are a nation of laws and that no one is above the law. Not even the president.

My hope lies with the millennials, who have the most to lose and the most to gain if they play their collective cards the right way. Many of them are saddled with enormous college and grad school debt. They are delaying marriage, families and dreams because of that debt and because many of them work multiple jobs, can’t afford health care, and, if the new tax bill passes, will be royally screwed.   Many of these millennials were born with Saturn in Capricorn, the ones who – like the mythological phoenix – rebuild from the ashes.

In 2018, may we triumph as the best of who we are!

 

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The Shutdown Synchro

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Trish and Rob

At midnight Friday, the U.S. government shut down. Saturday, January 20, began with no government. Again.

Synchronicity. January 20 also marked the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency. On January 20, 2017 Donald Trump was sworn-in as president. Now exactly a year later, the government shuts down. At least for a few days. It’s also the first time when the party in control of the White House, the Senate and the House was unable to close the deal on a new budget.

Nevertheless, as expected, Trump called out the Democrats as the source of the problem.  It’s an immigration issue. They wouldn’t go along with his border wall, and they wanted the issue resolved with the Dreamers – those who arrived illegally as children and only know this country as their home. Actually, Trump could also blame the Mexicans. They refused to pay for the wall, as Trump said they would. Did he really ever believe that? It’s hard to say what he believes; it changes so often. So here we are with the government shutdown for the first time since 2013.

Meanwhile, Trump plans to fly to Mar del Lago, his winter residence where – unless he cancels – he will host a gala event this evening for his wealthy supporters who will pay $100,000 a couple for dinner. Many of the attendees no doubt could pay for the dinner with their new tax cuts.

With that, we’ll keep this mercifully short, as we hope the shutdown will be.

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