and perhaps

Perhaps had we insisted that it was not the whim of the men or women, running for the highest office in our land, the Presidency, perhaps if we had decided decades ago, that all men and women are to be treated equally in this nation under the same laws, tax returns, business associates, and all of the security background checks the FBI MUST procure for those wanting Executive Branch Security, would have, should have and could have been a part of the law of OUR land, and we might not have the assistance of the Russian government in helping us choose our current Commander-In-Chief. And now it is his toss of the dice as to whether or not someone might be able to screw this nation, just as he has surely done, by deciding who to bless with our secrets and who to permit then nation’s secrets to be shared.

Lets not fool ourselves, many important pieces of nation security have been bought and traded by the Trump/Kushner/McConnell traitors enabled by a bunch of Republicans whose disdain for the democratic way has always been pervasive and poisonous. The question I wonder about is just how do we as  nation EVER undo, the damage, caused by the Trump’s and their was at which a foreign nation can blackmail them.

Perhaps had we not considered the Office of President as place ANYONE might aspire to, but instead, realized the President of this nation must earn his or her position and place honest accountability in that procedure we would have never heard of the words collision. And oh, yes, by the way, perhaps anyone running for the Federal Office, should be required to at least pass the same test new citizens are provided, or maybe a ninth grade AP US History test. 

BENGHAZI-I-TIS

Lets ALL stop being BENGHAZI-I-TED, its similar to the term Gaslighted, a term used to kind of make you crazy, because the truth is eliminated, the lies continued, and any recollection from the past obliterated! Its almost as if reality has been altered, not by supernatural forces, but simply by the machinations of mad men and women, so afraid of facts, terrified that it is THEY, who indeed are the villains and evil doers.

To Benghazi is to pretend an innocent person is guilty by repeating the same ineffectual facts, and to produce phrases such as you lie or lock her up. To Benghazi is to spare no amount of money or time and to publicize your lies to a group of insecure people who always need a scapegoat to hide behind and to whom to defer all of your own inadequacies. Repeat, replay, remind, and rewind and NEVER ever stop lying, or trying to defend you lies…just in fact invent new ones.

Lets be real, those of us who understand the illegitimacy of the Trump Administration, the buoys of McConnell and his newly branded Republicans (aka stooges of Putin), and stop permitting the NRA from seeing their brand of snake oil to this nation. In fact the AR-15 and other weapons of its ilk are assault weapons intended to murder as many people as possible in as short a time as it might take to create a sudden massacre. lets be real, who needs a weapon like that unless you are either in the military or intend on creating your own military to create your own war against your own perceived enemy. Lets be real, when we begin to chastise the mental ill as intend mass murders, when in fact if you of sane mind and body go out to purchase an assault weapon, doesn’t that make you a BIT MORE CRAZY yourself…ask yourself, why in the world do I need a weapon whose bullets instantly eradicate internal organs, immediately end life or slowly ends life in a painful way…of what healthy way mentally should I purchase that weapon or encourage others to do so. 

So now the NRA/Trump/the GOP are starting yet another round of BENGHAZI-I-TIS where they avoid with great earnest, the real facts that the AR-15 is weapon of war, used to murder the enemy, and those who purchase them must have a bunch of enemies to eradicate from this nation, and paranoia, insecurity, are signs of an unstable individual. Lets NOT permit anymore avoidance of the subject of gun control, by suggesting more guns make you safe, teachers should include in their lesson plans, when do I inspect my classroom for domestic terrorists, OR that the government wants to take away the Second Amendment.  When we permit silly and avoidance Talking Heads to maneuver our conversation regarding the real facts that AR-15 is produced as a weapon of war and nothing else, we all are participating in a form of BENGHAZI-I-TIS.

SMILE

“Smile thou’ your heart is aching. Smile even thou’ it’s breaking,

When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by…If you smile thru’ 

your fear and sorrow, smile, and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun

come shin-ing through for you!”  (Smile, lyrics Charlie Chaplin)

Just like his father, Donald Junior loves to discover that there are some good people and some bad people; but this time they are not of the White Supremacist or Nazi, ilk, they are the poor. It seems for Junior, that the poor in the nation of India, know how to smile, while living in squalor and misery as opposed to poor people in other nations. Not wanting to be glib, his word not mine, Junior just had to let the wealthy leadership in India know that they are lucky to have a bunch happy go lucky poor people living in their country. If only some Americans soon to be denied, health care, a decent wage, the split up of their families, polluted air, higher rents would take a lesson from the Indians, and just learn to: “Light up your face with gladness, hide ev-‘ry trace of sadness, altho’ a tear may be ever so near” (Smile, lyrics by Charlie Chaplin)

Rod Serling, HG Wells, Stephen King just to mention a few science fiction/supernatural authors often like to provide novels or made for media whose themes deal with alternate realities. Scientists working with NASA, and even those who ponder the universe for extraterrestrial existence, often times speak of alternate dimensions. Even Matt Groening, creator of the Simpson’s provided a few episodes of Homer and Family living in the fourth or fight dimension. All seemed or seems weird…BUT here we are in the year 2018, and family named Trump, living in a few Golden Towers bought and paid for by billionaire Russian Oligarchs, enabled by Republican puppets of Putin and blessed by a bunch pay to pray Evangelicals, have demonstrated that reality is not real, that what you see is not what you get, that hypocrisy is king, and that stupid can be inherited via your DNA, and that raising your children to be righteous, good people has nothing to do with being a heterosexual or homosexual, but with being a decent, empathetic, caring and loving man or woman. Junior is like that guy who walks out of the restroom in a swanky club ready to make the  one on the next sweet looking babe or boy toy, and forgot that his tighty whities are still hanging out of his unzipped pants zipper, and just to add to the look of DUMB, he has a wad of really soiled toilet paper clanging from his heels as he proudly faces what he thinks is his waiting adoring fans.  

“That’s the time, you must keep on trying. Smile, what’s the use of crying, you’ll 

find that life’s still worth while…if you just SMILE.” (Smile, lyrics by Charlie Chaplin)

Homegrown

We, as a nation have ben warned about world-wide terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and ISIS. We have been witness to the gruesome murders and crimes, and the lack of respect for their rule of law. We know those two names almost better than we do the names of the presidents of the United States. And we certainly should be aware of just how much damage these groups are capable of establishing. We, however as a nation sometimes forget, or just try to ignore just how many devious and dangerous INTERNAL terrorist organizations are currently causing damage and destruction to our democracy. Be it the KKK, NRA the Neo Nazi’s, the White Supremacists which have horrific history within our country, or now the Republican Party gleeful, and for its leadership, gainfully on the payroll of the Russian government, or Trump a man in the Oval Office who in real life could even get a visitors pass to the White House, we somehow seem to ignore the potential demise of all of our Institutions and the disgrace of a once proud nation. There is another group of INTERNAL terrorists, who have been around for quite awhile, but with the hacking of Trump as Commander-In-Chief, this group has taken on an even more sinister and bolder profile as an enemy of the state. This group is the Conservative Political Action Committee, (CPAC). They are a group of very radical Republicans, who wish to redefine the separation between church and state, who still believe that the South won the Civil War, and who find anyone not white, not Christian is NOT a true American.

Today, on Friday, February 23, 2018, Trump, spoke in front of this American terrorist group, and did two things. The first, is an old narcissistic habit of his, where he MUST brag about all of the criminals acts he has gotta away with. His ego is so fragile that Trump must remind his audience that he committed the crimes, just so they understand just how good he can be. Trump spoke about the popular vote in America not being relevant just the Electoral College (There is great interest by Robert Mueller’s investigation, about the hacking and tampering of three key states which Trump miraculously won, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania), then Trump used his snake oil salesmen pitch about how crooked the Democrats had been (There are at least 19 people in either his campaign or current administration indicted or about to be), but he saved his best shot for last and insisted that lyin’ Hillary was truly the villain in the 2016 election. But here is why, WE all should take great heed as to the terrorist intent of CPAC, once the current guy sitting in the Oval Office, mentioned Hillary’s name, the CPAC crowd shouted lock her up, lock her up, and Trump did nothing but smirk his sinister pouty face encouraging this group of anarchist/Communist loving conservatives to shout and shout and shout.Trump has always believes that to defer is the answer to his own crimes. Trump also must talk about his crimes. This is not a Banana Republic yet, but with attendees at the CPAC convention who have ignored basic laws of this nation, we soon could become one. For me home grown terrorists who use Jesus, and the Confederate Flag as their source of inspiration are scary and we all should become aware!

AVOIDENCE

Avoidance had always been a key element in the foundation of my nuclear family, growing up in the 50’s. But then again growing up in the 50’s had included very restrictive standards to be met, and there were few if any grey areas in which to float and find freedom. Coming from a Jewish background, with only my parents as first generation Americans, I remember just how silent, and intentionally quiet family functions would become if in fact some cousin or uncle or aunt had acted in a manner NO ONE WISHED TO ADDRESS OUT LOUD. My sisters and I knew when something bad was happening or something to be ashamed had taken place, because suddenly a whole bunch of Yiddish was spoken, quickly quietly and if was the female relatives speaking, they stood in a circle if it was the male relatives talking, a bunch of cigars were lit heads were sway left and right, and many an index finger arose poking someone in the chest. Relatives would discuss amongst themselves, but never approach the actual relative who was cheating, was drinking too much, was embezzling or whatever the irreverent act might be.

AR-15 Rifles are generated to murder many people, instantly, precisely, without empathy, sympathy. AR-15 Rifles were invented as weapons of war. AR-15 Rifles are mean, are destructive, and are used so there is a victor and there are dead people, it is not an either or, but someone lives many die. It matters not your mental state, it matters not your gender, it matters not your height or weight to be able to fire one of these. What matters in fact is your intent. What matters is that YOU, whomever you ARE decided to purchase a weapon of war. YOU decided that for some inane or is it insane reason that a weapon designed for the battlefields, leaving no causalities behind just dead bodies, was or is a necessary item for YOU to own. Trump/Pence/Rubio/the GOP et al.the NRA own up to the fact that there is really no reason for any one let alone an American to own an AR-15 Rifle unless on day, way back in that part of your really spooky part of your head, you want to murder someone!

Growing up in my family, when my relatives wished to deny the truth about one of their own they spoke in Yiddish to avoid the real meat of the issue. Currently the murderous NRA and their paid to play Republican puppets use the word mental health or better school security to hide the fact that IN FACT they know just how lethal and deadly and dangerous the AR-15 Rifle can be and has been!

PRECISE

Let’s be clear, NO, lets be PRECISE, there is NO place in any civilized nation, for the citizens to carry assault weapons, weapons of war unless the intention is to declare war, a civil war among themselves. Lets be clear, NO lets be PRECISE, there is no democracy in any land when a group of powerful people with the ability to hand out billions of dollars to the politicians, to buy their votes, eliminating the needs of the many just to fill the pockets of the few. Let’s be clear Mr Trump, good Americans, patriots do no sell assault weapons, weapons of war, weapons intended to murder in mass its population, those are enemies of the state. lets be clear Mr Trump, NO lets be PRECISE, your latest Tweet touting the good deeds of the NRA is more hocus pocus, wham bam gotcha m’am, as is anything you have done in the past. You are bought and paid for by the NRA and you only hear the jingle of its coins as they fall into your made in China Trump suits. If you cared Mr Trump , you wold not have needed a note reminding you, that you cared and that you should listen. Lets’ be clear, No lets be PRECISE, Mr Trump you are a fraud, a freak a fool, and maybe this time, no HOPEFULLY the time REAL AMERICANS will finally prevail, and place you and the anarchists in jail. The true Americans Mr Trump were the families who somehow found the strength to INFORM you, of the truth!

The moment

THE WORDS: I listened, my throat closed tightly, I could feel a surge of my gut wanting to find its way to my mouth and then free fall to the ground. There I was on my typical day, doing cardio; having forgotten that today, Wednesday, February 21,a group of survivors, a group of mourners, a group of Americans all attached somehow or someway to gun murder and gun violence would be sitting with the guy the Russians elected as President , the VP whose own sordid history with approving gun violence, and a billionaire Secretary of Education whose own disdain for the public school is horrendous, recounting stories, more horrifying than those told around a campfire in the middle of a deep dark forest with flashes of lightening and thunder roaring over head. The cardio was silent, most of us who had our ear phones on listening to our own choice of words or music, tentatively watching as parents, siblings, and kids, reminded us of just how dangerous and deceitful a world in which we try to survive. I as a parent, I as an American, I as a human could never dream of such tragedies, torment, and sinister behavior as these people, these once average people witnessed. With respect to the man who demonstrates no respect toward others, each and every person acknowledged Trump, thanking him for this opportunity (I gave them credit as I grew nauseous) each time they paid respect. This was to be a listening moment, which usually means great optics and not much else. These survivors were brave, and as each and every one spoke, I prayed to my God, saying thank you for not letting this be me. 

THE OPTICS: Young and old, some politicians, mostly Americans hurt by senseless gun violence, emptied by mass murder, destroyed by the creeps in public office who swear life maters, but not the lives of those killed by guns…yes guns kill! How wonderful one might suggest, the Commander in Chief, his VP, his paid to play Secretary of Education all cozy in a semi circle. Microphones shared, names mentioned. It looked like a real effort was being made to actually provide this nation with sensible gun laws…and meanwhile yesterday, as survivors of the most recent mass shooting watched, the optics of the Florida Legislature, a large majority of Republican NRA puppets declined to do ANYTHING to curb the use of assault weapons.  Buy a gun at 18, but go to jail in Florida if you dare purchase alcohol!

NON-VERBAL: Watching the victims and the survivors tentatively trying to be respectable, to not let the anger of their emotions get the better of them (They are stronger people than me), I was proud, proud that these individuals understood that to be heard they had to behave in a manner that others might listen. But often times the camera would focus on Trump. What an embarrassment, of a human! He either was folding his arms in front of his chest…he was either nodding his head so fast and so often one might think his neck would implode…his blank stare as people spoke was empty as his heart, and his ticks and movements demonstrated the inability to focus on the there and now. The victims and survivors were amazing, the guy Putin selected to run this nation was as usual a total waste of time!  

The Edge

I have reached a moment, if that is the correct word, or a sense, if that is even a better word, or just my end of the road, of understanding the period of history in which I am a participant; maybe thats the phrase I am stumbling over trying to identify. I hear the news, it sounds like a blurry foghorn, I read the blogs and articles on social media, they look like dots and dashes of some mysterious Morse Code, and I try to write my perceptions of right and wrong, good and bad, sometimes thinking there really is no more standards by which the human race must participate. Sometimes I feel like saying “I told you so," but to whom, exactly, to the same people who easily could parrot my own words to me with just as much frustration in their emotion. I feel like shouting, “Its there, right in front of our faces , all of the clues, which are not clues but blatant facts of lies and misdeeds,” but to whom, exactly am I saying this to, because they already knew what was happening as it was happening. I am not the smartest human in the world, but at times the obvious just seems so VERY OBVIOUS, and yet all the media seems to do is debate, almost to delete the truth and replace it with well maybe, or perhaps. My parents explained that somethings have no lets discuss it, but are based on truth, on honesty, on sincerity and full of values. I have reached my edge of the cliff, where the huge expanse of nothingness seems a whole lot more attractive than the phony, the ineffectual, nefarious, machinations of the Republican Party and Trump’s apocalyptic environment, of payoffs, bribery, blackmail and total disregard for the quality of life for anyone but the politicians and their wealthy donors. Honestly, if the Earth dies, doesn’t that preclude that everyone goes along for the ride, if US democracy is doomed, eventually won’t that mean a large majority of even Republicans will be held captive? If Trump wins won’t everyone else who is not Trump lose?

The Russians have declared cyber war on the US Way back when Mitch McConnell decided to override everything coming from Obama, he knew very well about the Russian influence. The media pretended that Trump was a ratings delight  side show worth advertising money, and that Hillary was easy game to be made the fool. Never a tax return nor a real business plan from Trump and that was okay. The NRA receives gifts from Oligarchs, Trump Jr brags that the only banks he needs money from are the Russian owned. Last minute states where Hillary was WAY ahead turn Republican. Lies, and lies and lies, never questioned just commented on. And now anyone Trump, except Trump is under arrest or under strict overview. And all Trump Tweets is how everyone but the Russians are guilty of anarchy. I have reached that point of light in my life where I am blinded my the mere idiocy of those who continue to play by the rules but NEVER EVER demand the Republicans or Trump does the same. I am so close to the edge of losing my mind!

nobody does it better

So…Paul Ryan travels to Florida, only to shoo away citizens concerned about gun violence, so he can clear the ball room for a fund raiser…Ryan stated this gun stuff is sensitive, why even he has to worry how his adolescent children react to something he believes only causes a “knee jerk reaction” when it happens…guess the NRA funding just ain’t enough. Oh yeah, no need to raise the question on the House side of Congress says, Paul Ryan, we did that already, and it has worked out well so far…So Trumpster Dumpster flies to Florida pretending that he owns an ounce of conscience visits the medical staff and of course those First Responders, stand with them for a photo op flashing his thumbs up sign. Trumpster tells everyone what a great job these folks do, never once mentioning to whom and for whom they had to treat gunshot wounds, to whom they had to try and discover psychological wounds from being gun violence victims, but he Melania all dressed up as a kind of model Florence Nightingale, had smiles on their faces. And oh yeah, who wouldn’t be smiling when waiting for your at your Mar-A-Lago castle was yet another fund raiser celebrating those gaudy, rowdy days of disco at Studio 54…Ryan and Trumpster the numero uno and tres guys in this nation who both love themselves the fruits of labor working for Putin and the NRA.

So…as Sophia Pertrillo of Golden Girl fame might say, “picture this, Washington DC, an orange guy stands in front of a white house, carrying both gasoline and matches, as he douses that white house from roof to basement, onlookers begin to surround him, these onlookers either dressed in white robes, gerrymandered red stripes, little NRA insignia’s, a few with swaztika’s on their arm bands, point fingers at the orange guy, they mumble, still pointing and watch. There is muttering among some as they sigh but he has matches and he has gasoline, is that good. Others point behind them and say but those guys the minority of them standing behind us, maybe they should have never provided this orange guy with both gasoline and matches. The splash of thick smelly gasoline still resonates as the orange man is dousing now a capitol building with the same mixture of flammable fluid. The orange strikes a match, the majority in the crowd, stare into the flames and shout as one voice, its burning DC is burning….does anyone look for water to douse the flames, nope, they close their eyes, place fingers in their ears and just shout, we saw nothing, we heard nothing, we were just following orders.

The Republican Party…nobody does it better!

Mrs Paul Ryan

Mrs Paul Ryan, sorry for  no“Dear”, in my salutation, but I am a bit skeptical about how one might address the wife of a prominent politician in the United States, who is on the laundry list of the NRA Lobbyists. It seems your husband and of course father of Liza, Charles and Samuel, just doesn’t seem to understand that guns kill; he instead always seems to need more time to assess the murders, warning us not to provide a “knee jerk reaction to senseless and preventable wholesale human slaughter. Now, Mrs Paul Ryan, I know sometimes husbands don’t always discuss their jobs when they sit around the dinner table, hoping that their little lady will have prepared the dinner, of course wearing her Harriet Nelson, or Barbara Billingsly pearl necklace and earrings serving her master’s dinner. But your husband, Mrs Paul Ryan, well his job is always making the news channels and it might be pretty hard to NOT discuss what mischief he’s been up to. I am certain your kids must be aware of the kind of nonchalant I could give a shit attitude their father has demonstrated regarding every single mass murder while under his tenure as either Congressman or Speaker, so I do wonder, do you discuss who died today and why, or is that kind of communication just to insensitive for YOUR children. Do your children, Mrs Paul Ryan understand that kids their who could be their peers are gunned down by assault weapons, you know the kind sponsored by the NRA who also seems to own your husbands soul!

But I digress Mrs Paul Ryan, I understand that in most Republican households, women are seemingly like chattel to the say the most or Steppford Wife to say the least, so I am sure you don’t challenge your husband’s misguided slenderizing pandering to the NRA. But, Mrs Paul Ryan, I do wonder, in those moments of privacy, when you have to face yourself in the mirror, do you EVER wonder, why your husband could give a shit? And those thoughts and prayers, Mrs Paul Ryan is that a Catholic thing, I know your family celebrates the Catholic religion, does your religion only care about thoughts and prayers instead of flesh and blood? And when you drive your kids to school, do you perhaps not buckle them up in their seat belts for extra protection, but choose instead to just tell them that YOUR thoughts and prayers will keep the safe should something happen while they are in car. After all just like your husband and every other Republican bought and paid for by the NRA assures us a gun is just an intimate thing, surely IT doesn’t make choices, and for that matter a car is also an innate mate thing, so it surely can’t decide to crash or not. And Mrs Paul Ryan, if you do drop your kids off at school or at the bus stop, right after you kiss them on the forehead, do you too extend YOUR thoughts and prayers, knowing it only takes this two words tom keep them safe! Mrs Paul Ryan, your husband has been very vocal about HIS, oops I mean his puppet masters feelings toward gun violence. But you remain silent, and you know a long time ago the LGBT Community used to remind the government that silence equals death. Senseless death for the innocent, but I bet you don’t feel a bit guilty spending those hundreds of thousands of dollars provided to your family by the NRA. In closing Mrs Paul Ryan, please, along with your husband, rot in Hell!

To Placate

Lets placate the public, pretend that laws matter, or while we are at it, that much of truth is ideal. Lets act on the offense even though the reaction is to offset the defense, only because we were caught (one might say in this age of Trump Red Handed). Lets right that wrong, or at least address it in a Tweet, because the fewer characters you use, sounds less like an apology and more like an intended action. Lets refer to the past discretions as a blip, a burp a bump in a road never of course intended, but perhaps there, intentionally until someone catches on. Lets offer prayers and thoughts again, because after all it worked the first dozen times. Lets point that finger and insist that everything is on the table, except there is no table in sight. Lets look the other way because turning our backs is safer than running into the on coming traffic; someone might get hurt, and it should never be us. Lets demand that the mourners need prayers and silence, lets demean anyone who suggests that avoidance is the precise ploy to NEVER address the issue, lets demur and act the victim hurt, insulted that we are at fault, when there are at least 700 other people or things or causes to scapegoat. Lets be Republican and Make America Great!

So now, John Kelly is attempting to change the security rules at least as they relate to the Executive Branch. Honestly too late Johnny Boy, every one from Bannon to Kushner, to Manafort, to Donnie Junior has had their greedy and grubby little hands into the top secrets of secrets. And guess what Johnny Boy, the guy sitting in Oval Office, could never be hired once your supposed new rules of engagement are enacted. Trump has so much blackmail-ability about him, that the stench flows from Mar-a-Lago to Moscow. And then there is Governor Rip off Rick Scott from Florida, who suddenly is certain that this time HE and his paid to play, gerrymandered Republican Legislature by the NRA are going to make laws on guns, lawful…that is, right after he and his NRA puppets made it a whole lot easier for people suffering mental illness to purchase guns, with a big nod from Little Marco Rubio!

It is more than hypocrisy, it is more than horrific, it is more than a heavy heart can handle. Lets placate the public, because somehow we think the Americans are just too damn stupid to know better. Because we are the Republicans, we think we can get away with murder!

New Rules

Now, of course after the fact (WHY IS IT ALWAYS AFTER THE FACT), supposedly John Kelly is putting into place a new regiment of regulations and standards regarding security clearances for the Executive Branch of our government. Caught in the act of brazenly defying the FBI and the other Institutions created to at least provide some sense of security within this government, Chief of Staff (the once and only guy considered the grown up in the West Wing) John Kelly is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it any more (again, WHY DO THESE PEOPLE ONLY REACT AND NEVER ACT) and the retired general swears on the same bible that the Evangelicals use to praise Trump as a good Christian, that CHANGE is coming. So, lets say REAL CHANGE is on the way, you know the kind of things like…do you owe anyone any money and if you do could they blackmail you…or have you performed any lascivious acts from which audio or video piece of evidence might have captured, thus rendering you available for blackmail…or have you not paid your fair share of taxes to the government and lied about your income, so much so that a lender might be able to blackmail you…From the current list of those in the West Wing who have partial security clearances or even no clearances the public has learned that at least an attempt is made to keep the highest of officials from falling into more corrupt hands. If in fact John Kelly decides that under his tenure, ALL laws must be obeyed, THEN I wonder, how the hell, no HOW THE HELL, can Trump be entrusted with a Security Clearance. Seriously, think about that…the Guy sitting in the Oval Office, has a flurry or is it a frenzy or maybe a bevy, of blackmail-able offenses, yet he gets to KNOW everything from the names of US intelligent agents to the Nuclear Codes.

Wouldn’t it be SWELL, if we make it though this Trump Administration as the United States of America and not the Union of Soviet Republics, to make a few changes as to how you may run for the office of President. The whole idea of the public having no knowledge of your income, your off shore accounts, your tax returns, your business partners past and present is ridiculous, so much so that it permitted an anarchist like Trump to sit in the White House. Shouldn’t the guy or gal who supposedly has the highest position of power in the world, first be vetted like the assistant secretary to this or that men and women who work the janitorial dudes at the White House. Shouldn’t we, as Americans realize we are not electing a King or Queen and the bull shit regarding their immunity because supposedly they arrived on Earth from some far fetched Gods, holds no favor? lets learn a lesson. lets get the truth from the candidates who wish to become president, make it a law, and if anyone doesn’t want to play by Americas rules, fuck them and let work somewhere else. HONESTLY, how simple could that be!

An Alter Boy

It’s either, “no need for a knee jerk reaction”, or “no need to rush to judgement”, but the Speaker of the House, that good ole’ Catholic former alter boy Paul Ryan, whenever YET one more murderous rampage takes place, by someone using an assault weapon. If he is paid to deny the freedom of democracy by the Koch Brothers, or paid to shoot ‘em up by the NRA, Paul Ryan is the one we can count on to provide no insight to the liberties of the innocent, but lots of bull shit for the puppet masters to whom he is indebted. Pretending that he had to pull himself up by his own boot straps (never mentioning just how much the government helped he and his family to purchase those boots in the first place), he demonstrates a persona of selfishness, self-serving and a smirk so deeply hollow that all most normal people want to do is punch him in his sad ass face.

More innocents have died, maybe the murderers were mentally ill, maybe they were angry, maybe they just hated everyone around them, maybe their past lives sucked, maybe they were just like Paul Ryan, but the THING is, they all had a gun, be it a Glock or any fucking kind of assault weapon. And Mr Ryan under duress from his handlers at the NRA, or the Mercer Family, or the Koch Brothers refuse to admit that GUNS kill, and that laws against using guns to kill are necessary. 

There is a movement, finally to profile all four current lawmakers and just how much money they have received from the NRA to enable murder in this nation. I hope that movement continues and real people take notice and wonder, just who it is they are voting for. You notice too, how quiet the Evangelicals are when there is a gun massacre, (unless its the blacks, you know the thugs, or the brown skin ass hates), how quiet they are about gun control but are loud and proud and angry they become about homosexuals, and abortions. Please people of Wisconsin, let Paul (the alter boy) Ryan understand his hesitation to do the right thing is just as dangerous as permitting the murder of innocents by people who use GUNS!

The WALL

No WALL will keep out the real enemies and terrorists of this nation, because our real adversaries travel via the Internet, private jests from the East, party with wealthy Americans, and actually after today’s revelations look exactly like Mr and Mrs Caucasian American. No WALL will keep out the true anarchists of this nation, they are already here, the men and women sitting in Congress who have either been bribed to look the other way, are more concerned about the Christian Conservative Agenda restricting freedoms and equality, or are professional politicians who love the idea of dictatorship and of course the lack of divide between state and church. Most of us knew that the 2016 election was not about Hillary’s inability to become president, it was more about her actual ability to keep the Russians and the haters from running or is it ruining this nations democratic principles. We recently have hear a hue and cry regarding all of the people working for the Executive Branch who either have little security clearance of partial clearance due to their ability to be blackmailed….think about this for a moment…then gag…if Trump was not the Commander-In-Chief, do you think for one moment HE would have been given any kind of security clearance! A WALL, seriously, if so, then build it and place all fo the Russian co-conspirators from politicians to Trump Family members, to his campaign team to Trump inside that WALL, and lets begin to try and make America a safer place for those of us who do respect the pursuit of happiness, fairness and equality.

The Congress had passed a law to impose more sanctions against the Russians…Trump has yet to do so…so, who is more at blame, Comrade Trump or the Republican lemmings who just let anything Russian float in the air like a silent fart! When do we take back America! 

God Bless

On Thursday, November 15, the day after the massacre at the Parkland High School, before they could even provide the nation with that Extra Special Moment of Silence, and of course their plethora of THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS, the GOP Majority in the House of Representatives, decided that the Americans with Disabilities Act was a phony way (for people who happened to be blind, or deaf, or paralyzed or quadriplegics, or categorized as needing easier access, or special accommodations just to live and work) to feed off the government, and the GOP Majority voted to no longer have the American with Disabilities Act an act of law. And as is the case for the GOP who vote against the wishes of their own citizens, the GOP made certain that the gallery filled with protesters be removed and escorted via wheelchair or cane, or seeing eye dog to the nearest police van and be booked for protesting in the Capitol Building. Also, just to hide their own guilt a little bit more, the GOP majority in the House, turned off the video, so no one could hear the protestors. Then, as if the GOP had just been victimized, a few asshole Republican Congress People had the nerve to blame the people with disabilities for not permitting the House to go on record of holding a moment of silence for the dead in Florida! Last year to this date, oh by the way, the same House majority with the assistance of the Senate Republican majority also voted to ease the Obama era sanctions of permitting people identified with mental illness to purchase guns. its anyone’s rights said the GOP last year to buy that gun. This day, as many Republicans were asked about gun control, forgetting the anniversary they permitted the mentally ill to legally purchase guns, many GOP wrung their fingers and had the audacity to say…guns don’t kill, but the issue is the mentally ill! GOD BLESS AMERICA and the NRA!  

words

It was like the movie Groundhog Day, almost to the most minuscule of atoms falling from the sky. A crazy round of story telling from who the shooter was or was there more. Multiple interviews with each and every cable news outlet hiring their band of terrorist experts, psychologists, first responders and of course with each report the public was being reminded that we don’t quite know all of the details…but we definitely knew ANOTHER group of students were the victims.

Helicopters flew on missions to give us a birds eye view of the school grounds, witnessing the amount of police cars, then squad cars and then a few sheriff vehicles, we got to see the SWAT vehicles at the ready to stage an assault, if God forbid that would be necessary. by telephone we heard worried parents or listened as neighbors near the school shared their partial knowledge. Red flashing signs of Breaking News appeared before our eyes sometime in waves of three minutes.

Then came the press conference, and of course the round of thanks you’s and pats on the back by officials tot officials, and if they were lucky enough to make an appearance, the POLITICIANS were on the podium. Of course each and every one offered thoughts and prayers, but it was the Governors, or the Attorney Generals whose inaction and only action of thoughts and prayers for me made the whole ceremony more disgusting. Any person speaking to the public about YET one more murder scene, which could have been avoided, by some brave GUN legislation, might have well been talking though their individual ASSES. 

But then the real kicker came the real reveal, shall we say about what IS important and what IS not. A very shaky and brave teen crouched down as if in a fox hole on some battle ground held the camera of the I-Phone, filled with fear (the kind no child let alone adult should feel), and as we the audience heard the rapid fire of gun shots said “Oh, fuck there is shooting in our school. The THING, was we all were permitted to see he shaking body of two students praying for their lives, we could hear the bullets flying but the TV station blacked out the word fuck. So, a kid can bring an assault weapon to school, kids can copper with fear, and the only really BAD thing was the word fuck.  Here is what is fucked up folks, the words thoughts and prayers, and now is not the time to discuss this. Fuck You! 

COME ON

And there they are on television, talking about the aftermath of death and destruction. Offering prayers and thoughts, and just how well they responded to the carnage, always AFTERWARDS! Each politician playing the sympathy card wondering how this could happen, why here, but assuring the victims and the public, we are here for you NOW. Fucking madness and Fucking Bull Shit America!

Every Floridian politician demonstrating their somber faces and their oh so sympathetic intonations understands how this newest murder of innocents happened. They all know that NO ONE has stood up to the NRA. In Florida they happen to be Republicans, is the Governor, and Attorney General, all of its paid to play staff honestly going to look into the camera and tell us how shocked they are at this murder!

COME ON. Enough already, except as long as there is money in politics , it will never be enough! 

Jeopardy

Let’s Play…no let’s Live JEOPARDY…

Jeopardy: Question: What are thought and prayers, let the mourners first mourn, and lets not make this a political game at time like this? Answer: The response from the Republicans/Trump and the NRA to the 12th school shooting in America since the beginning of 2018!

Double Jeopardy: Question: If every teacher, had a gun in his or her classroom, if more of the custodial start and administrative staff would carry concealed weapons, none of this silly shooting stuff would or could ever take place? Answer: The response of the paid for puppets calling themselves Republican politicians and the paid for Buffoon in Chief, Trump to any shootings , honestly anywhere.

Final Jeopardy: Who has received money from Russian Oligarchs, in order to provide their Lobbyists incentives to permit the carnage perpetrated with guns, so the share holders can continue to make lots of money? Answer: Who is the NRA!

And a Bonus Jeopardy: Question: What is nothing at all? Answer: What the Congress will do to even pretend to try and fix the gun problem in this nation!

Love

All through my elementary school years, Linden School (high it stands above the Valley, Linden Pride of all…)the holiday of Valentines was an important occasion, to be celebrated in each and every classroom (even in the rooms of very scary and mean teachers, whom most kids thought really didn’t have a first name just Miss) Linden was one of the few Pittsburgh elementary schools at the time which was a K-8 building, so the students had lots of experiences participating in the Valentines Day rituals. For the younger students, creating Valentines Boxes was a big deal, it was as if you had homework, and needed to present a work of art to be placed on your desk. I can remember at least until 6th grade, the urgency by the teachers that each student at least provide some means of receiving a Valentine. Now, the 50s were not a very flexible period of time, things were very black and white, literally and figuratively, and culturally men were men and women were women, and to be more EXACT, your were masculine or you were feminine. (We at Linden, during our 7th and 8th grades spent one  day a week at a school called Sterrett where the boys attended Wood Shop, and Mechanical Drawing, while the girls spent time learning Home Economics and Sewing) So, when Valentines Day approached, at least for most kids in fourth or fifth grade a real dilemma arose and permeated until the February 14 came to a close. Should boys give boys a Valentine, and exactly what cute little phrase would be written on that card. Touchy, because, if it was too mushy, you might come across as a homosexual, bland enough and you were still cool. In some classrooms the teachers instructed EVERYONE, to provide EVERYONE with a Valentines Card. As I remember it, by the time 7th and 8th grades rolled around, we still celebrated Valentine’s Day, but the restrictions on EVERYONE receiving cards was not as forceful, more of a, as you wish basis.

February 14, 2018, and without hesitation, deliberation, I am sending my HUSBAND, a Valentines card, with kisses, hugs and a giant out loud I LOVE YOU. No more sneaking around to be mushy, no more hiding to be physical, no more permission from others to express how I feel, and why I feel that way. It took me too many precious years of precaution just to discover that Love is Love, no matter to whom you express it. As in the 50s, there are still people too afraid of their own insecurities to embrace the people they love, because the people they may love of the same sex. I remember back in the days if by mistake, some boy sent another  a Valentines card and hadn’t done enough scrutiny, missing perhaps the word love, a chorus of boys would sing a little ditty, “Andy and Stuart sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g, lots of giggles shared and a blotch of red on the both the recipient of the love car and the sender. We were so afraid to be real. Well this in answer to that ditty, I sing LOUDLY, and PROUDLY “Joe and Gerry, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love and you know THEN came the marriage. Ain’t that a kick in the pants! I love you Joe Bruno!

Aunt Valken

Growing up back in the mid century the 1950s to be exact, at the early of six or seven I thought I had a relative named Valken. Back in those days as young children we were taught to call adults Mr or Mrs and if they were adult relatives we used the title Aunt or Uncle. So at many family functions my sisters and I would make the rounds saying hello to our relatives either kissing the aunts or shaking the hands of the uncles. Easy, breezy, that was all we needed to do to then immediately run to the dessert table and ignore the rest of the people, and just hang out with the cousins our age. My Grandma Braff however, insisted that we not only say hello, but we the name of the person to whom we just extended our cheek or hand. I remember the first time I met the lady I assumed was Aunt Valken. She hadn’t been to many family functions, but suddenly there she was standing next to our Uncle Shrul. So, following my Grandmothers instructions, and knowing that the dessert table was I leaned in for the kiss from this new cousin, and was ready to call her by her name. She was unlike the other Aunts who immediately took the lean in stance to kiss me, and instead she bent forward, with the index finger and the thumb on both of her hands, and said, i don’t know where that face has been and instead, placed her index fingers and this upon my cheeks and pinched them…hard! I was taken aback but saw my Grandmother standing with her hands folded across her breasts, her lips making a very ruby red pucker, looking over at this encounter. Amidst the pain on both of my cheeks and trying my hardest not to cry (It hurt), or yell (God forbid), I could only muster the words, “Hello Aunt Valken”. Leaning in toward me (Now way to close),thinking her comes another pinch, Aunt Valken, stood there and said “Are you a stupid boy, my name is Minnie.” This Minnie lady stood straight up, turned to my Grandmother and turned her head lit and right right and left and said “Tut, Tut.’  This gyration caused my Grandmother to run over to me, hissing at Minnie, as Minnie walked away, and my Grandmother non accusatory asked me what happened.

I was one of the only boys in the family, lots of girl cousins, so usually I got the royal treatment from everyone, so I was a bit shocked, both by being called a stupid boy, and also by the lack of affection I, as a boy usually received. I told my Grandmother “I don’t know, all I said was hello, Aunt Valken and then she yelled at me and said her name is Minnie.  I expected a lecture from my Grandmother, but instead she began to giggle and said a phrase in Yiddish, which I had always heard before whenever anyone was speaking about this lady. The phrase was, “Veyl Keyn harts odor nshmh.” Looking at Aunt Minnie with one eye, and keeping the other eye on me (I never knew how my Grandmother could do that), she said. “she has no heart or soul.” As time went on, I realized that Aunt Minnie was Uncle Shrul’s, second wife (he actually divorced his first, and those days Oh My God), and that my Grandmother and her relatives knew the only reason Minnie married Shrul was for is money, and Minnie gave no shits to anyone in the family, and always had something bad to say right to their faces. All I heard as young kid was two words Veyl Keyn and I thought it was her name Valken (So sue me)

Once again, as I was on the stationary bike at the gym, with all fourteen televisions sets tuned to either CNN or MSNBC, I heard or saw the written words flashing across the screen about just how Trump and his Klansmen refused to even consider abuse and harassment an issue, and that how none of that stuff could happen if the man is smart, educated, or maybe even covering up for Trump. The Talking Heads were reacting as if any of this immoral or value-less behavior made ANY impact on Trump and his Klansmen. What planet do there people live on, I thought, YOU are talking about Trump , morals, values, ethics or truth are foreign to him, he is a person with no heart or soul. And then suddenly the name Aunt Valken walked into my brain and i had to get off the bike, go outside and scream! 

To pee or not to pee

I woke up heading to the bathroom to pee. I passed my phone sitting in its charger stand, on the dresser right before the entrance to my bathroom, I stopped, hesitating for mere seconds, doing the “gee I have to go to the bathroom really bad dance” jiggling from one foot to the other foot, but was still mesmerized for a moment thinking I saw the latest news from CNN that Trump was arrested. I really had to pee, but the joy that justice might have discovered the road to the White House, I still stared at the phone fighting off that strong urge to find the toilet and release the liquid toxins from yesterday, thinking the VERY ‘Yuge’ toxin for the past year was also flushed down the toilet. Nature has a way of winning and with a dash I JUST made it to the porcelain throne, feeling all kinds of satisfaction physically, but still confused emotionally. The flush of the toilet, the washing of the hands the rush to then phone, and THEN the disappointment of being a 68 year old man who needs reading glasses to see anything smaller then 20pt print. Of course Trumps name was all over my notifications, none of it the good news that he was out of office, just more of the bull shit and authoritarian news regarding his and his minions attempt to turn thins nation into a hybrid of banana republic fascist communism governance.

If it had been an SNL or Onion story I would have laughed reading how ICE is now dragging people off buses and from churches or Wal-Marts demanding to see their papers (you know like SS did in Germany, WHILE, all the WHILE Trumps son in law Jared, still has a semi security clearance and the now ex-secretary to John Kelly never passed his security clearance. So who is more dangerous to this nation, then guys in $3000 suits who read high level classified materials or the men and women in t-shirts and jeans, who are just trying to live a life for food and shelter for their families. And then I read that once again the Fascist Enablers known as the GOP are still insisting that DACA will pass as long as we build the Trump Wall, thinking the real threat to this nation are not those who cross the Rio Grande, but the who fly under the radar in private jets from any or all Russian friendly airports.

Each day, I was up and wonder, either, has the next Nuclear war started (Lets not be fooled the Russian have begun World War Three with the hacking, bribery and blackmail) or have the concentration camps been established for anyone Stephen Miller finds disgusting. And then I pee, wash up eat breakfast, beg myself to NOT watch the news, and worry when will this end!

a needle, a haystack

The state of California has witnessed some very devastating wild fires burning hundreds of acres of land, leaving untold destruction for both the human’s and animal’s calling the forests and mountains home. Miles and miles of devastation and yet very often, and with great stead and integrity, somehow the First Responders fighting the fires are able to at least identify if the maelstrom of devastation was caused by Mother Nature, or the nature of an arsonist or the acts of an ignorant selfish person forgetting that the California environment is in a terrible drought condition. When a real effort to find the truth is put in place and made a priority even the most maddening of minutiae, is sorted through and results are provided. It can be like finding that preverbal needle in the haystack. And often times the criminal is caught and made to pay for the crime. So hard, yet to easy when someone cares.

Yet one more denial from Trump regarding his collusion, his money laundering, his decision to play the puppet to Putin, yet one more admittance that Trump is so afraid of the truth, causing him to deny access by the public to the Democrats Memo regarding the Steele Dossier; BUT yet we continue to pretend that Trump is innocent. Be it via Tweets where Trump acts triumphant and jubilant that he hasn’t been connected with lying, or stealing or obstructing the rule of law, to his  blatant banal badgering at Klan rallies blaming others for the erosion of democracy, the facts are in front of us and NOTHING is done to place this man out of the White House and into Prison. Trump is such a Narcissist, that he telegraphs his misdeed quite often, because he is so sick that he always wants the world to know his action be they for good or bad.

The First Responders in California can find the finest speck of evidence as to where and often how a hundred acre fire had been started, with very little to hardly any clues. Trump and his Klansmen drop clues like a drunkard would spill his fifth glass of bear walking from the bar to a stool next to the bar, and we are supposed to believe there IS nothing to discover. Maybe the First Responders actually can about the lives of public, whereas the GOP cares about nothing but the lives of their donors and the longevity of their political careers. Finding that needle in the haystack seems so much easier then the seeing the HUGE ORANGE FASCIST in the White House!

Dark and Stormy

It was a dark and stormy year, guilt oozing from the White House as thick as the moss growing on the dead stumps in the swampy waters of the Potomac. There was murder afoul in that once stately building, the stench of sulfur permeating the nostrils of the monsters from Wall Street, the Oligarchs from Moscow, and the family known as Trump. The victim was Democracy, it was found lying in pieces from the Capitol Building to the bureaucratic buildings lined up and down Pennsylvania and Constitutional Avenues and Boulevard. In the din the early daylight or at the falling of twilight one could hear dry, raspy cries of help, but most people thought it was only the exchange of coins between Lobbyists and Politicians or the heavy breathing of something not quite understood, but very much alive Dark Money. From the glow of the television set in the Family Quarters of the White House, with aura of orange, an unnatural hue, a passerby could almost imagine a Frankenstein Monster being energized by an electrical shock stimulated by a weird organization called Fox and Friends, and an arch enemy of normalcy and fairness something unworldly called a Hannity. As if it was its own universe, the thing siting watching television or playing with his phone would Tweet creating a maelstrom of weather so inclement to most normal human beings, but so soothing to the bottom dwellers like the single cell bacteria living off the fumes of underwater volcanic plumes. It was a dark and stormy year and no one was able to find the rainbow, the dawn of a new day, the bright sun blazing with the truth of a new day.

Kind of hokey, huh! Kind of silly and unsophisticated, yet something so real! I am not sure how many times I can criticize anyone or anything Trump, I know I must and I know I shall…but honestly to what avail. There are no longer checks and balances in this country. There are few and fewer Republicans with conscience in this country. And there seem to be less and less lawful ways to undo the the illegal activities created by Trump and his band of Klansmen. So, now Trump pretends he is concerned for the country and as a Patriot can not release the Democrat memo, a response to the propaganda presented by Devin Nunes, yet one more Republican most likely on the Putin payroll. Trump and Associates break the law, ignore the law, and yet the rest of us Americans are supposed to behave like GOOD LITTLE AMERICANS…WHY! No, seriously, why, must we anymore. One day a long time ago, the victims living inside the Warsaw Ghetto decided to not play nice, to the surprise of the Germans, the docile Jews of that ghetto made a statement, and demonstrated that passive is not always the most powerful way to behave. Isn’t it time those of us who care about our freedoms and the freedoms of the next generation stop playing by rules, that so far most Republicans have ignored. Please Congressman Schiff, start the riot, lek the Democrat memo, before the dark stormy year becomes a gloomy decade! 

another day

Another day, another fail and another denial that in fact anything is wrong, so there is really nothing to change. Trump and his Klan of misogynists doing their best to berate, women, playing the part of Macho Master, pretending that the 1950s is alive and well and that its time once again for the Scarlet Letter to become fashion. So another Trump not ready for prime time guy bites the dust, for his ignorant and idiotic narcissistic take on how to treat women. The Cable News Talking heads acting as if this is new NEWS, lamenting the fact that how could this happen…why was this even permitted to happen…and still agreeing that no matter what, Trump somehow didn’t know that yet one more Klansman harassed, hurt and humiliated a female.

So now what, and I ask that both rhetorically, and with great earnest of interest, so now what do we do. I heard the President of the National Organization of Women speak, outraged at the behavior or Trump toward women, I heard some Journalists with pristine professional credentials huffing and puffing, and of course the Talking Heads both Republican and Democrat just amazed, just shocked that one more of Trump’s Klansmen physically beat up a woman. So what?  This is unreal, yet it is a common occurrence via the Trump Administration. And it’s not just the sexual harassment, or the gender gap discrimination in wages, or job growth…NO, it goes beyond that…it goes as far as the disregard for women to control the freedom over their own bodies, over their own reproductive rights. The GOP may offer thoughts and prayers for the female victims of harassment, but somehow the GOP gives a shit when it comes to wanting women to decide on abortion rights. Freedom for women is not being the gentleman and asking them if they are okay with a sexual advance, freedom for women SHOULD be, its your body, it’s your life its your will, its ALL your choice.

And for me, one of the most unbelievable things is just how many Republican women enable the male abuser to continue treating females as chattel. The women in the White House who say nothing, the women in the Congress who vote against their own rights, the women in the 38% of the Trump base who worships at the heels of a Trojan Horse dripping in gold plated bull shit. Another day, another perplexing, revolting disrespect for anyone woman…and NOTHING, nothing at all seems to stop it from happening again!

an adult?

Before the rise of Trump I had never heard the name General John Kelly. Okay, I thought, Trump who has an S&M  fetish for the Military and generals in particular (usually you have the fetish because you wish you could be that idealized thing, or you think if you have control over it, it makes you as powerful), so it made sense that Trump wanted to surround himself with men who had HONESTLY demonstrated power, not the kind that entails grabbing them by their female parts. Trump also began to call upon a few Generals, which not only proved my belief in Trumps Military Fetish, but began to concern me that the way Trump sorts things out, he might have considered the fact that having, as he calls them “His Generals”, Trump was thinking maybe i could have a coup and My Generals could help me me this My Country. But, that WHOLE bunch of shit is another BLOG or at least a dozen other BLOGS. Back to John Kelly.

As has been the role of the Talking Heads in this nation, the men and women who supposedly are either Democrat or Republican pundents, or work for the various political party’s When General Kelly was made Chief of Staff, we were told, with a great big swipe of sweat from the forehead, that finally an adult was entering the room, and that room being the Oval Office. The same pundents and Talking Heads had still pretended that all the lies during Trumps Campaign, all the missing information regarding Trump prior to his campaign, and all of the weird and worrisome stories about Trump would either go away or that trump would chad could be reigned in by (now this IS laughable) the Republican leadership. Somehow along the way from the campaign to the elections the talking heads and Pundents discovers amnesia and swore with their coiffed hairdo’s and appropriate amount of jewelry or in their $2000 suits that Trump was certainly not fit to sit in the clown car from which he came , but not in the Oval Office.

Now, a year later, ALL of us have discovered EXACTLY who John Kelly is and the lack of morals he brings to the office of Chief of Staff. Kelly is a sad sack of Racist Man, who treats women as if they were some reward for being a solider and winning a war. His resentment to the Immigrant is embarrassing, his permission to let his Secretary Rob Porter remain on the payroll and in a security position after the FBI informed Mr Kelly that Mr Porter was abusive and could be blackmailed, is an insult to this nation. And as usual, Mr Kelly’s first response, of protecting a man who beats up his wives and lies about it, just plane Trumpian. Never pretend to apologizee, and never apologize after the public demands it, if in fact YOU knew all along the guy you hired to work for you was always an ASSHOLE and a COWARD. General Kelly, oops Mr Kelly is just one sham, and one more slam against this nation of ours. He is certainly NOT the adult in the room! 

Great Aunt Celia

My Great Aunt Celia wore the reddest lipstick, I had ever seen any woman place upon her lips. It was the brightest shiniest gloss and when she kiss you, it was as if you suddenly broke out in a rash as the with each and every kiss, a silhouette of her butterfly upper and lower lip appeared on your face. For the great nephews, the ones she really ogled over, as she pinched our cheeks together calling us such handsome puunum (face), we would then appear as if we all were auditioning for a clown show. My Great Aunt Celia, wore the tightest of corsets (albeit at the time I just thought she had no waist) having inherited the Iancowitz (my grandmothers maiden name) the top part of my Aunt Celia’s body was very bubbly (that was her word for the size of her breasts). Aunt Celia was the life of the party and everyone knew immediately when she entered the room. I still remember her as a grand lady. 

There were times, however when, if you got her on a one to one, she also was more then just the facade; she in fact was very philosophical about her life and new exactly how she appeared. After one or two Peach Schnapps sitting at a family function she on a very cushy chair and me on the one kitchen chair with the legs non quite even so finding the balance to stop rocking, she would recite a few stories. Sometimes she would refer to my Grandmother, her sister and say, “Eva,(My Grandmother), was the quiet one, she followed the orders of our Mama  and Papa, but not blindly, no she always had a plan as to how those inspections in life might help her change her life. Your Grandmother was smart enough to play dumb, never bucking the system as they say in America, but adjusting the situation to meet her goals. “I on the other hand , was loud, complained, begrudgingly did what I was told, knowing that one day I would rebel.” I was loud, your Grandmother was soft, My marriage was arranged, your Grandmother placed her foot down and said i will marry the man I love. Then with a sweet smell of the Peach Schnapps still floating from my Aunt Celia’s mouth, her red lipstick still fire engine red, but a little less precisely lying upon her lips she would lean in grab my cheeks pull me close to her and right before the big fat kiss on my lips say, be brave, be smart, and quietly never give in.’

Another day in Trump Land, another day I awake and wonder, whose freedoms will be denied, whose lives will be shattered, which Republican has joined the Putin puppet list and how can so many Americans NOT want a revolution. In honor of my Great Aunt Celia, I will persevere, and when I and all the good Americans kiss this Trump  dictatorship goodbye, I will think of you!

A Parade

So, NOW, the 5 time Draft Dodger, oops I mean 5 time deferred from the draft cause his doctor was paid to proclaim that little Donnie had a bone spur, so this guy, want a military parade at the cost of the tax payers, the same tax payers who are expected to build little Donnie’s wall. The so called Commander-In Chief. loves to huff and puff about the military, actually calling them HIS GENERALS, sighting that the more we spend on items of destruction the safer we remain. (Forget the fact that a foreign adversary has hacked into our election process and by any standard did not have to use any Big Boy Weapons to start a war with the US and is continuing to win it) This guy whose insecurity is always measured by the amount of boasting and bragging, never with facts of figures to follow up, is such a wuss, that he is afraid to go to Afghanistan and Iraq, where he can witness ALL of the magical weapons of war. But then, again Trump is a coward now just as he was during the war in Viet Nam.

An Admiral, was interviewed on MSNBC today and made the comment, only weak nations with weak leaders have to provide the public with pomp and circumstance showcasing their weapons. A true nation with true power and a true leader with real knowledge of the power of his nation, don’t need bling and bullshit to shout my penis is bigger than yours.

Oh Little Donnie, always bragging about the things he really is too insecure to admit too. All the grabbing of the women by their private parts, paying them off with cash. All the money he supposedly owns yet no disclosure of his tax returns. And who will stop this insecure prick of a guy…it seems no one really. The GOP are cowards just like Donnie, they fear a group of voters called their base, many of whom have no idea that the world is round, Eve is not a gift of God by removing one of Adam’s ribs, and that the Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. So NOW the 5 time Draft Dodger wants to take out his bag of Toy Soldiers and parade them around to impress, whom…just his frail and fractured ego. ENOUGH ALREADY!

By now

By now, most of us with EVEN WITH moderate education, a bit of common sense, fair to middling child rearing, semi lack of social interaction and at least a fifth grade study of American history, should UNDERSTAND, just hoe dangerous a situation this nation is facing with the man who is currently sitting in the Oval Office. ALL of us knew going into the 2016 election that Trump lied, and was completely over his head in running his own businesses let alone our country. By now anyone who understands that the Earth is indeed round, that you don’t have to pay God to have him watch over you, that, evolution IS a thing as well as climate change, even if it snows and is cold outside, and that to launder money has nothing to do with dry cleaners, unless that IS the front you use to exchange the bribes, the blackmail and the corrupt money you have secretly stolen! By now if you breathe oxygen, know the difference between day and night, your right hand from your left, you too should understand that Trump could give a rats ass about this nation and only is concerned and always has been concerned with how much he can gain from the system.

But here is the thing, you ALSO, should be aware of. Trump may have the title of Commander-In-Chief, but he has not and never shall earn the respect that title once carried. This man is an ill individual only propped up by two pieces of concrete; the first being Vladimir Putin and the second, the very slimy, self-serving Republican Party. No matter how the Talking Heads, headline the latest MEMO, or TWEET, no matter how the so called Moderate Republicans wane and worry, no matter what new shocker makes the headlines, prompting and promoting fear and loathing, if the GOP really, did I say REALLY care about country first, None of the Trump/Putin/McConnell/Ryan/Nunes agenda would EVER see the light of day. Our government could work, if honestly could with its checks and balance, but the thing is the Republicans could give one’s rats ass if does. As long as we keep the Gays are sinners, women who want governance over their own reproductive body parts are whore, non Christians with dark skin are terrorists and Mexican are Rapists and oh yeah not every one in this nation is entitled to one-person-one vote, the GOP will not indulge in the morals and values upon which this nation was founded.

By now, most of us who have decided to swim out of the water and grow legs, understand there IS ALREADY A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, not one soon coming but one here. And because of the immediacy and emergency NEED to fight, as hard as we can to make change. We may want to respect the office of President, but no the guy sitting in that office, because he has no idea of anything but himself. It’s no longer about Trump, but ALL about the lack of the Republican leadership to take control and stop this madman. We can rant and rave and insist, but as long as the Republicans play politics with our lives nothing is going to change, at least for the better!