Most of us of have learned a lesson regarding words spoken; they may eloquent, they may require tears when listened to, they may be as artful as a sculptor who finds a piece of wood creates a masterpiece, they be muttered, muffled or magical but like the oxygen in our lungs, once expelled they disappear…UNLESS each and every word is followed by an action, they turn invisible. The words spoken by the man sitting in the Oval Office, most recently have tried to sound compassionate, supportive; reading from a teleprompter of course using the words of someone just as insincere as himself, but with complete sentences, Trump talked about the lives of those beautiful Syrian babies, tortured, harmed gassed and dead. His actions, we have all witnessed are meaningless, and honestly are reactions, which HE hopes will con all of us into thinking HE has changed. They are just words…
Chemical warfare is a creation of the most evil of humankind, but it does not always lend itself to the battlefields of war. Kids in Flint Michigan are suffering, dying slow deaths because of the chemicals in their water system. Not a word spoken in their defense. Streams rivers, ponds full of coal ash runoff, factory rust and ruin all working their way into the neighborhoods of Appalachia, kids bathing in it, swimming in it, drinking from it. No words about that, except from Trump and his cohorts to permit more of it to happen. Monsanto, with all of their chemicals feeding live stock, watering crops, pesticides spayed not he fruit and vegetables, eaten by the kids of all states, carbon particles, now able to float freer than ever with the cuts to the EPA , all falling in the lungs of every American child, rich or poor, black, brown or white. No words for that, except a quote similar to Sarah Palin’s lack of concern, “drill baby drill.”
Now the entertainer of news networks, like CNN, ABC, CBS etc, have fallen over the words Trump has spoken, pretending that by just speaking those words of “those beautiful babies in Syria”, actually mean anything more than,”now my rating will go up.” Words can be like the finest of art, but the colors and hues and intent of the artist remains on the canvass, Trumps words are full of hot air and as they rise to the surface they burst pop and fade away, leaving the listener with nothing to hear.
