Risk-Reward

By Lorraine Evanoff, January 7, 2026 – 470 Words

Trump’s cabinet is a who’s who of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 architects. Russel Vought heads the OMB, Stephen Miller is White House Chief of Staff, Karoline Leavitt is White House press secretary, Brendan Carr heads the FCC, and Tom Homan is border czar.

These villains do cost-benefit analyses to help the Trump regime strategize. The costs in their vile calculations include killing millions of innocents worldwide by de-funding healthcare, climate science, and USAID, and now global destabilization by attacking sovereign nations in violation of our Constitution and Article 2 of the United Nations Charter.

It’s costing Republicans too. Marco Rubio seems in perpetual dread of burning in hell. Tom Homan can’t dine in public without being heckled. Marjorie Taylor Greene abandoned her House seat two years early due to threats of violence. John Roberts, Bill Barr, Mitch McConnel, Leonard Leo are reviled by millions.

What is their reward? Money? Power? Pardons? Trump pardoned 1,500 violent January 6^th felons, white-collar criminals convicted of massive fraud, and drug traffickers, including the former president of Honduras sentenced to 45-years in U.S. prison. Trump killed 80 Venezuelans to kidnap their President Maduro, an evil tyrant, but this somehow makes Maduro look like he’s not compromised in the Epstein files.

Is it worth it to Republicans to risk prison when the tide turns? Their calculations include ending free and fair elections as laid out in Project 2025. But they are in a race against time to prevent Democrats from retaking the House and possibly the Senate in the 2026 midterms, and the House might flip even sooner. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat is now vacant, and more Republicans are resigning soon. Republican Doug LaMalfa just died. And a Texas special election on January 31^st will restore a Democratic House seat.

Republicans think they are in control. But it’s becoming clear that Project 2025 is directly linked to the Epstein Files. The DOJ is desperately violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law passed unanimously by Congress – except for one sex-trafficker, Louisiana House Republican Clay Higgins. Like I said, it’s all connected. This GOP obstruction is well planned to protect a very specific network of billionaires and corporations who fund Heritage Foundation.

Meanwhile, not one democrat is trying to stop the release of the Epstein files. Also, even though high-profile European officials were implicated in a sex trafficking scandal in 1998, the same year Epstein purchased “Epstein Island,” which became the headquarters for his criminal activities, NATO leaders are standing in defiance of Trump.

Great Britain had a WWII motto, “Stay Calm and Carry On.” It’s hard to stay calm when your own “leaders” are the enemy. But the GOP is taking huge risks. Their reward will be going down in history as the traitors they are.

PROTESTS

Yesterday protests broke out across America just as we landed in Maui, so I’m missing out on mainland activism. But God bless this gal we passed on our way to the condo. I’m planning on making a poster and joining her at some point.

TIMELINE CLEANSE

That said, I have no desire to travel at ALL, I hate leaving Floofles.

But mimosas and the sunsets help.

For those keeping track, Floofles has been a little angel, coming inside out of the big rains all last week. I’ve tried giving her all kinds of pet beds and she just shuns them. I had the idea to put a folded towel on the floor, and she curled up on it and melted my heart. Then my girlfriend gave me this cute terry cloth kitty bed and she loves it!

While traveling I use my raccoon-proofed feeder and I get notifications when she’s there and dispense remotely. We set up the new atrium for her and she is the only critter who can access it, along with another feral kitty, Sneaky.

I told her she would be on her own for a couple weeks but that she’ll be okay. She understood the assignment and has been eating in the new atrium.

I’m so proud of her!

Namaste 🙏🏻😻🐾🫶🏻