Back in the 1950’s when I was a young lad, the kids on our block would play outside almost every night during the spring and the summer. There were plenty of kids, and plenty of great made up games to play. I am sure every block where young kids lived, had their own version of outdoor games to play, as I am also certain each neighborhood had their own rules and regulations as to how these games had to be governed. Our block of row houses invented a game called ‘Gotcha’. Nothing unusual about it, as in reality it was just tag. But to tag someone, not only did you have to touch them, you had to shout as loud as you could “GOTCHA”. “Gotcha was fun for a summer or two, but the kids on our block of Pittsburgh needed more, so we invented the game “Getcha”. “Getcha’s rules were simple, if you were IT, and tagged someone, you had only a few seconds to run away from them or if they reached out and tagged you back they shouted “GETCHA”, and you were no longer IT. Cool, with this game you had a chance to fight back. “Getcha, lasted about one summer and the next big thing for our street was “Double Gotcha”. To start the game of “Double Gotcha”, everyone had to pull out a piece of paper, one piece of paper had the word IT on it and one piece of paper had the letter D written. If you had the letter D, you were the king of the hill. If the IT person tagged you and you were the one holding the letter D, you could let the IT person tag you, almost begging them to, always luring them to and once they tagged you, you shouted “DOUBLE GOTCHA’, and you won the game. Simply said, you controlled the game of tag.
I broke my own rule, and was lured into a bit of ecstasy when I heard Rachel Maddow had Trumps Tax returns, so I actually watched cable news. (The day Putin won the election I swore off of any Cable News). But this was Rachel, and if anyone was going to out orange the lyin’ cheatin’ Putin puppet, Ms Maddow was the one. Well we all know that even Rachel has a bad day or two, and once again the nation was pranked by the White Supremacist, President Steve Bannon, and the rest is history.
It seems all I hear about is how this time we “GOTCHA, Trump, when in fact it seems with the help of the GOP (aka) the Party of Death, all we receive is a “Getcha”. But this time Trump and his team of anarchists outdid themselves and played a fine game of “DOUBLE GOTCHA”.
