Another Day

Another day! A white guy has issues, and uses his Assault Weapon to settle some imagined score. Another woman comes forward, detailing an affair with Trump, the Evangelicals whose support grows as this adulterer garners more women he has groped, and not a single word is raised, just praise, that Christ has elected Trump as his main man on Earth. Another day! One more Cabinet member has stolen money from the Tax Payer toward his or her own selfish whims, yet the Republican led Congress remains silent, as if the Emperor and his Court can spend money as they seem appropriate. Another day! Tweets flow from the White House, like red and white blood cells stemming from a sick heart, finding passage as truth in the diseased veins of a public too afraid to face the truth and very enamored to embrace the hate. Another day! Someone from FOX is caught in lies, yet more and more viewers believe that if you lie on FOX you are doing so to save America.

Another day!  One step closer to an abyss that grows deeper and darker than ever before, signs encouraging the lemming to jump in and stay a while. Another day! we discover that Trump received permission from Putin, explaining where to send missiles in Syria and where to avoid. Another day! Trump perseverates over pee tapes, he salivates regarding prostitutes. Trump lingers long and lovingly to prove that his version of make believe is more honest than an inkling of truth, and he is praised by his hordes of monsters for being an honest liar. Another day! One day closer to the so called MidTerms, which somehow have become a rallying call for some kind of perceived victory, even while NOTHING real has been set in place to curtail the Russian meddling, hacking, blackmailing, and intent to destroy American democracy. Another day! We still debate if Mitch McConnell is or is not a pawn of Putin, if the RNC has or hasn’t colluded with the Russian Oligarchs, if proven liar like Giuliani or Michael Cohen are brokers of law, or just breakers of anything that the law and for.

Another day! We come tired, we become weary, we become worn, we become a part of a norm that is like the Black Plague, infecting the human population, eliminating any possibility of hope, just persuasive enough to cause a malaise, a coma of sorts dulling the future and digging up each and every a front from the past. Another day! As we pretend that common sense, common law and common good will survive, the villains pursue a path of evil, and it seems their highway to Hell is being paved faster and faster!

clue, life, risk

As kids growing up in our neighborhood in the 1950s, we knew almost every single thing that happened on our street. Often time our parents wanting to know a little gossip regarding a neighbor would ask their own children, and if we didn’t know the answer there was sure to be some other kid who had the correct information. We played outside, and during the summer months stayed outside from early morning until late night or one of the most scary of Pittsburgh thunder storms erupted, causing a flurry of parents calling us in. It was around 1958 when a new family moved in, they were renting a house in the next row of houses (which now are referred as townhomes) and of course the current crop of kids had to investigate everything about these new people. It so happened, that the Cummins family were a bit unique for our street, first Mrs Cummins worked and her husband was a stay at home dad (imagine the shock and awe of that in the year 1958), secondly, this family was not Jewish, (a demographic unheard of on our street), and Mrs Cummins was a Librarian working for the Carnegie Library system which was the numero uno Library of Pittsburgh! The Cummins family had a daughter, but she was never permitted to play outside, instead she could sit outside but had to read whenever she was out of the house. This was absurd, so we thought, and unheard of to boot. But Mrs Cummins was a friendly neighbor, and became close to the other mothers on the street. In the late 50s, I loved playing Board games. I had Clue, Risk, and Life. Clue was cool and kind of easy, Life was easy but tricky, on purpose, because even though it was a Milton Bradley game, there was some substance to it, but the game of Risk was all about nationalism, about power, about taking a calculated risk. Many parents tried to read the direction for Risk, but few really understood the entirety of the game, few with the exception of Mrs Cummins, who offered to not only read the instruction but play a few rounds of the game with the neighborhood kids. 

We were in awe of Mrs Cummins ability to understand how to play Risk, and she taught us something called observant thinking. She used the games like Clue and Life to explain that just reacting to our situations was not enough. We might figure out that Colonel Mustard was in the Library with a knife, but why waste precious turns at the wheel to know that. And with Life, Mrs Cummins would add, if you play it as you go along, you will miss winning the game and come in second. A lot of that made no sense at the time, but she was a Librarian so we knew one day it would make sense, and besides that she taught us how to play Risk and become rulers of the world. There was one more thing Mrs Cummins did, she called it her little bit of eating chocolate candy, but it had to do with books instead of candy. Mrs Cummins read murder mystery books by the dozens. She called them “whodunit”books, and when caught with one, in her hand she would say, like a Boy Scout you must always be prepared. The late 50s were a scary time and the Cold War was becoming frigid. Mrs Cummins would tell any kid willing to listen, as we played Risk, you can only win if you are one step ahead of your opponent. You can only win if you know how sinister your opened is and how afraid he or she is of their own weaknesses. I read the “whodunit” books and know if someone plans on robbing my house, how to protect myself. i know if the Russian invade the United States where to hide and how to fight back. The last word Mrs Cummins told us before moving away was, “it is the truth, that if it sounds too good, it is not good at all, all it is, is  a way to make you want more, and wanting more just makes you selfish or worse, stupid. 

So, on Friday, April 20, 2018, we read at Tweet from Trump that because of his ability as president North Korea will freeze their nuclear intentions. Prior to this we discovered that Mike Pompeo secretly visited North Korea, and that during the Trump campaign visited the Russians. Both trips at the time were secrets. We know that Putin needs Trump to remain in office because aside from Mitch McConnell there is no one else better at treason. We know that Trump has NOT planned on any real Russian sanctions, and that Trumps raid into Syria was bogus. We now KNOW how very smart Putin is at manipulating the American public. I thought of mrs Cummins as I heard news of North Korea’s decision to halt their nuclear ambitions until a summit, and thought, BOY OH BOY here we go again, the truth sounds too good. I believe Putin thinks the American public will hail Trump as a great negotiator, playing to the part of America that believes FOX news IS NEWS, and that all of this North Korea nuclear freeze nonsense is just that, and will be around until the Midterms, and that Putin thinks Trump and the all American Republicans will be hailed as heroes and remain the majority. There are cCues, in this game of Life , and Putin will make that Risk!

oh how i wish

Oh, how I wish there was nothing new to say regarding the attack on the United States via Russia, or how the third world war completely caught this nation off guard and the only fallout from the battle has been the rot and decay for our national institutions, rather than the radiation sickness and the bleak black skies holding back the sun from the remains of a mushroom cloud. How I wish ALL of the actual adulterous affairs between Trump and his bevy of Playboy Bunnies, or his adoration for, and intimacy with adult porn stars would just be published as a sort of Farmer’s Almanac of why thou shalt not’s is only for the LGBT community and of course the loose women who dress for rape, but never for Trump because he, according to the pay to pray Evangelicals, insist upon the idea that Jesus selected Trump to succeed Jesus as the next Christ! Oh, how I wish I could just squander my ranting on the fact that even with all the tax breaks for the 1%, and the knowledge that the trickle down theory is as annoying as when your pee trickles down your own leg, we still see more homeless people, more tent cities sprouting up on boulevards and avenues, and how in some cities not stepping over or trying to ignore humans has become a part of the work day! Oh, how I wish I could stop counting upon the Republican’s coming up with yet one for bit of sheer hypocrisy, or the Commander-In-Chief, coming up with one more lie, being that he is so narcissistic he must inform all of us, of his illicit and illegal behavior.

The truth is out there, so we are told, but in the United States the truth is like having Cooties. And almost anyone over the age of 35 understands just how awful having Cooties can be. When I grew up in the dark ages of the 1950s we actually did have Cootie shoots, they were painful and you always ended up with a black and blue mark on your arm, but it did save you from being treated like leper. The truth seems to count for very little anymore, as in the truth won’t set you free, because when you have criminals like Trump and his Crime Family, the truth will send you to jail. Oh, ow I long for the days when truth mattered and people were actually called out for being honest; rather than praised as hero’s for somehow lying, as if TRUTH was as bad as being a person of color, an immigrant, a strong female, a homosexual, a Muslim or a non Evangelical Christian!

Oh, how I wish we would stop debating whether Trump like, love, adore, or is just being blackmailed by Putin. Oh how i wish we could just call Mitch McConnell an enemy of the state rather than a sly politician. Oh, how I wish we finally could stop pretending that FOX News is nothing but Russian propaganda and stop calling their Entertainment Racist white faced liars journalists, and begin calling them Comrades. There are so many other annoying things in life, I wish I could complain about, but I know in MY life, living to see another day of democracy, freedom and equality is a struggle I must continue, until the good guy FINALLY ends up the winner.

Dear God, why

Walked our little dog, came in and had a shake for breakfast, reluctantly turned on the news, hoping that perhaps the law finally caught up with Trump and his Crime Family, sat in front of the TV, saw a bunch of Talking Heads, and knew that the unusual, which has now become the usual was once again being shared as news…(you know another Trump lie, another Trump exaggeration, another Trump fuck you America, and another Republican response as to there is nothing here to see…but I was incorrect…its seems just as the the Talking Heads wee beginning to debate the difference between Trump BAD and other kinds of BAD a “Breaking News” announcement flashing in all its fire engine red clamor and color took us away from the current set on MSNBC and suddenly we were watching four people standing inside a Fire Station. The man talking had been one of the passengers on the ill fated Southwest Airline, whose one jet engine caught fire. It seems this man is a paramedic and he did his best to try and save the life of the one woman whose window cracked and perished in this horrific airline accident. The man was being interviewed and asked if he knew he was a hero. Shyly and very honestly humbled he responded no, that he was just doing his job and acting like a responsible human. Sweet, I thought, he tried, he got involved and he did his best. But then the paramedic’s (The hero) wife intervened, sniffling her tears wiping her eyes, holding on to her husbands hand for support, and she then spoke. It was then that I listened a little more intently, and had almost wished I was watching ANYTHING TRUMP.

It seems the wife of the paramedic, was certain Jesus had planned for all the people who were passengers on the Southwest plane, to be gathered together. The wife continued, that Jesus always has a plan, and just watching those amazing people (other passengers tried their dardnest to assist in saving lives), the wife of the paramedic knew there was a purpose for this. It seems in her estimation Jesus planned this tragedy to demonstrate the good will in this world. The paramedic’s mom and dad were standing by, and all the while the wife of the paramedic was congratulating Jesus for letting such great people be gathered on one disastrous southwest flight, mom and pop nodded their heads. Yep something good came from the death of the one passenger, because it demonstrated people have compassion. At the end of the Jesus did this for a purpose dissertation, the paramedic himself, acknowledged hi sorrow for the dead passenger and her family, but felt good about the gathering of souls, in on place on one plane. And then, I had to first turn off the TV, and second SCREAM! I did SCREAM and scared our little dog, Chance.

I believe in my God, I am never sure of my God’s reasoning or will or rhyme, but have always found it comforting to pray and actually talk to God. We can all be hero’s if we choose, but when I hear a story like this, am I to suppose that the passenger who perished was not a good person, more of a martyr, helping to prove some other people are good. Religion has become a trick question in America. We are told that being religious makes us better. We have Evangelicals who will pin point each and every evil aspect of the LGBT community and women who wish freedom of their own bodies, but they will support a man like Trump who lies, cheats, is an admitted adulterer, and a thief. We are told by Christian politicians, that family and children are gifts from God, yet almost every bill they pass denies food, shelter and medical care for children and family. And now, I was and listen as a man who in fact did a good deed, is thanking his God for bringing all of those people on the same plane, so his God could remind us of the good a collection of people can do. Dear God, why! 

past present future

Once again, the Cable News pundents, have forgotten to do a reality check, as they pretend to report the current events of the day. On MSNBC (my favorite network, albeit sometimes, they make huge mistakes like inviting misogynists, and Putin sympathizers on their shows), the well coiffed and supremely tailored Talking Heads were suggesting that the BLUE WAVE is coming. Of course no one really knows if it is coming, but the conversation was reminiscent of the Hillary landslide that of course was inevitable. At the same time as the well paid Talking Heads were of course talking, down on the right hand corner, where that little strip of news slides by to distract you just enough to almost listen to what is being discussed, a blurb was flowing gently beneath the Talking Heads, which read. The Russian’s are continuing to blatantly hack into and disrupt the Mid Term Elections in this country and around the world. So, here I am listening to the certainty of the BLUE WAVE, while all along, the RED WAVE (not the GOP, but the Russians) has not quite crested and may in effect become tsunami like during the Mid Term Elections.

Hmmm, no overt laws to disrupt the Russian hacking, no overt action to secure our polling place and no overt Talking Heads lamenting history repeating itself, but reporting on covert actions, known about, by the Russians against the democratic principles of this nation. HUH! WHAT! WAIT! We know Putin has not stopped his interference with our elections, we know that he and his band of merry hackers had a field day during the 2016 elections…we know ALL of that and somehow, we are smug enough to think their will be a BLUE WAVE. OMG, no seriously OH MY GOD…how stupid do we need to become until stupid IS the official language of this nation.

Of course Trump has demonstrated he will NOT, NEVER, EVER do anything to stop Putin, and we know that most of the Republican Party is being blackmailed, so they will not be the checks nor the balances, and yet…AND YET the Talking Heads pretend that none of the Putin propaganda matters. HELP, no seriously, HELPPPPPPPP! What the fuck, we see the future, we saw the past and there is nothing we are doing about any of it in the present. i don’t get, NO, I don’t fucking get it!

Irrelevant passing of time

The kids in Syria are still victims of a regime, so insecure, regarding its authenticity, and as such, are dying of starvation, dangerous chemicals, and left at the mercy of a government pretending to be of and by the people. The kids in Flint are still victims of a Governor so corrupt as to place the wants and wishes of his mega donors, those who see profits before people, leaving many children scared for life with lead, which will poison their entire bodies for as short a life as they now may or may not live. Death is all around these children either from the Middle East or living in the Mid west. Nothing but words and pretentious apologies are offered, and yet each day, more kids are affected and more kids suffer. We’ve seen this before in history, we’ve rung our hands and as we supposedly looked back upon those days, with utter disgust, swore it couldn’t, wouldn’t and won’t happen again. Yet in this nation which is more and more becoming a Christian Nationalistic country, we hear from the self proclaimed army of God, that each life is a gift, and we should celebrate the birth of that life…but after the woman’s water breaks, the journey of a good life is a toss up, if you are truly blessed by God, all is well, if you fucked up a ling the way too fucking bad!

A leader of a nation, whose credentials have never been fully vetted, lies and lies again. He creates an enemy’s list, he tries to silence the freedom of the press, by telling us his freedoms are the ones at risk. He hires kiss ass men and women, whose vile understanding of honesty is tied to a paycheck and to how many dangerous sound bites they can produce. We have had men and women like this in the past, but that was history, and well, isn’t history only a theory! Truth cannot be trusted, if the wrong people say the right thing, they might actually be the cult leaders swaying an already insecure and inept population to the edges of a large cliff, and we all know about the folk lure of the lemming. And who said a cult is a bad thing, sure Trump is inept, but he has made millions, no billions of dollars and has always done the best, the better, the most, no need for anything more, why all that stuff worked well for Stalin, Hitler, and Putin…so what could go wrong.

Today, much to my chagrin, Andrea Mitchell had Corey Lewandowski on her show to actually debate the merits of James Comey and Robert Mueller. Mr Lewandowski has been considered misogynist, a bully, a fixer for trump and connected to all of the treasonous guys working against this nation in favor of the Russians, and yet somehow, Andrea Mitchell felt it necessary to have a DEBATE on Trump’s standards and values vs anyone else’s. And that is just it, just as ALL of the networks did prior to the 2016 election, they pretended that right vs wrong is even a DEBATABLE subject. History proved to us that cheating, lying, collusion, corruption don’t have any moral standards, yet once again SOMEWHOW, forgetting history, as we often do in this world…we pretend that people like Corey Lewandowski have anything of value to add to an already fucked up and terrible time ion our lives. Are we all that stupid as to ignore the lessons of history, or pretend history is just an irrelevant passing of time?

who's zooming who

Of course James Comey is only human, and as a Hillary supporter, I grew angry with his insistence to become a part of the political history during the 2016 election cycle, but reading about Mr Comey’s past, his abilities and his participation in the governing process prior to the last year of the trump/Clinton debacle i did gain an understanding and respect for the higher percent of his merits than, what i assumed at he time were his missteps. BUT here is the real deal folks, something many of us should be considering in this current invented flap regarding James Comey…have you looked at and listened to the slew of slimy Republican who have disingenuously disgusted in great lying detail the particulars of this Prosecutors life.

You got the Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi Boys, like the dishonest Trey Gowdy, the guy who redacted the truth and reinstated his own words, along with the ever kiss ass Jason Chaffetz, the man who helped vote against more money in the budget for better security for all Embassy’s. Then you got yourself some Newt Gingrich, the guy who chastised Bill Clinton for his extramarital deeds , all the while cheating on his first wife, who was ill, and finally dumping his second wife for a third bride. Now add the newest voice on ABC (you know America’s Network) the Governor who closed roads and threatened the Mayors of his state that tough tax times would befall them if they did not support his run for Governor. You got these DISHONEST politicians hacking away at Comey, while none of them seem to have said word one on the Russian hacking of the 2016 elections.

Then you have Ronna Romney McDaniel the RNC Chair (the woman who was asked to remove her maiden name because it offered Trump) who never read Comey’s book declaring it was full of lies. The Evangelical liar (learning her craft of snake oil from her dad)Sarah Huckabee Sanders, looking like she is always sitting on the toilet pooping, sing the same mouth and tongue from which she praises her Lord and Savior, expressing snarky comments that Comey is unfit to even stand in Trump’s shadow. And of course brought back from the stench and squalor of Dante’s Inferno, the best, better, and most complete liar, Kellyanne Conway, with her dead pan (if I move a muscle in my face it might implode) face expressing great sadness for the Americans that someone like James Comey could be held at higher esteem as Trump.

Of course I am pissed at the extra unnecessary involvement by the FBI director, but when I listen to those who have become his detractors, and weigh their values, their virtues, their morals and their honesty, HONESTLY I am became a James Comey fan. let the REVOLUTION evolve!

seemingly so

So it seems, in America in the year 2018, you can be a white guy selling secrets to the Soviets, or laundering money for the Ukrainians, doing deals on the side with the Saudi’s, be a princess named Ivanka pretending to be an official of the United States government sans a security check, or sit in the Oval office and lie so often that the first lie is forgotten by the time you on the fourteenth lie…so it seems you be all of that shitty stuff, while being WHITE…BUT now not only if you are driving, or lounging, sitting on your porch and ALSO standing in a Starbucks, WHILE black you get arrested.

You can scheme , you can collude, you can launder money, you can be bribed and bribe, but since those are WHITE collar crimes, anyone WHITE committing those crimes is either given the benefit of the doubt, or completely left alone. But being BLACK, and doing almost anything can either get you arrested or killed.

So it seems in America in 2018, it is a scary thing to be anything but some jerk who wears a MAGA hat and longs for the good old days of the Confederacy!

what mission

Mission Accomplished…yep, fool the foolish lemmings who always need a bad guy, into believing that American might is the only force in the universe that contain evil, and kick the asses of the men dressed in black. Just like owning a bunch of assault weapons, pretend that weaponry is the answer for finding any kind of common ground, as long as YOU, the always received good guy own that ground and all of the ground around it. Certainly Assad is a murderer, certainly Putin has permitted the murders, certainly Iran is as conning as the American Christian Evangelicals in pretending that God is a soldier and only uses the force of missiles to promote his religion…certainly the Syrian Civil War is JUST one more shameful birthmark on mankind, but for Trump, without the permission of the Congress to send our war machine into action, only doing so, at least as I see it, to show off for his base, and to try and deflect from his own heinous history of crime, is as shameful and sinful as ever.

You want to accomplish a mission, find ways to permit the victims of the Syrian massacres to find refuge into this nation. Chemical warfare is horrendous, inhumane, but what of the devastation caused by constant bombing, Mr Trump, you know the weaponry paid and bough by your chum Putin. Trump you have managed to throw most of your most ardent fans under the bus when useful, why not stand for real JUSTICE and call out ALL of the torment and terror your owner of blackmail on you and your family has, Vlad, and draw that line in the sand.

Mission accomplished, is that like letting Scooter Libby off the hook for outing important CIA agents, who had tried to fight the Russian insurgence in the democracies of Europe. Mission accomplished, is that like firing anyone who might have evidence on your lies, your provocations, you mental illness. We are stuck with you Trump, because, those who believe that firing a few missiles at targets in Syria which had been warned ahead of time of their destruction, still believe that destruction is God’s way for America. We are stuck with you Trump because men like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, the Mercer family, the Koch Brothers, Rupert Murdoch, Sheldon Adelson and the Sinclair Family prefer profit over people. There will be one Mission Accomplished, and that is when truth, honor and democracy find heir way to your insidious soul and place you and all of your Crime Family in jail. Then America can and will celebrate a true victory.

Nope

Trump is a product of the reality TV phenomenon, a scripted line of words, all with just the right camera angle, immediate negative situations, with a few choice words, but an even quicker resolve of the immediate drama. The viewer’s of reality TV, like a happy ending, where the so called villain, is finally framed so everyone at home can shout “boo”!

So, Trump, most likely with the permission from Putin (amazing how there were no fatalities in Syria), found the evil monster, Assad and the Chemical Weapons, and declaring mission accomplished, just told the reality TV viewers that Trump saved the day. However, all the time between the first day Trump took office, and yesterday’s strike, where has Trump been on saving the lives of the Syrian refugees? Lets be honest, what is more dramatic, the “shock and awe” of buildings exploding, fire in the sky, or the empathetic and sympathetic acceptance of stranded children, woeful families, discarded humans seeking asylum.

Nope, I have bought the bait. Trump needed cover, Putin understood that Trump needed cover, so an airstrike. Now, only now…sorry!

the closer we get

So, the closer Mr Mueller gets to the simple truths regarding the sinister lies erupting from past and present behaviors by the Trump Crime Family, the more endangered life on Earth becomes. Of course the Assad regime in Syria is nothing but evil, supported by Putin and an illegitimate religious clan of Iranians, and of course for way too long have the Syrian people suffered; and any civilized nation should be on the forefront to remove the murderous and maniacal maniac from Syria. But to do so, because the better deal between being found out a fraud or changing the subject with war heads, and a non identified war plan, leads to nothing but redirected chaos. If the rumors are true, that this action in Syria had been suggested by the empty head facades sitting on a propaganda program stage called FOX and Friends, there is even more to fear, and more to stress the lives of each and every American.

Trump, has never had any plan to protect anyone but he and his immediate Crime Family. He has told us so, he has bragged about making money while sitting in the Oval Office. He has demonstrated his willingness to place his needs above the country. Yet, we somehow are still debating fake news versus real news. We still permit Trump’s Crime Family to change the subject as if any appeal they try to make to the public is legitimate, is honest. 

Shouldn’t MOST intelligent people be worried what comes next, if Comey’s book continues to get headlines, even as bombs fall on Syria. Shouldn’t MOST intelligent people fret as to what happens next if the information from Michael Cohen’s law office and home become public knowledge. Shouldn’t MOST people scream with terror if Mr Mueller places Jared Kushner under arrest. Trump has so much to hide, he admits it all the time whenever he accuses someone else of lying, being corrupt, cheating, stealing. Trump is mentally disabled, his narcissism so rampant that Trump must indirectly admit just what a scheming miserable individual he is and can be. The Russians have already declared cyber war on this nation with very little consequences. The Chinese are quietly making new friend from old advisories. The Far Right politicians have begun, with the motivation from anyone on FOX to incite words like Civil War in this nation, to divide one demographic from another. And now, the closer Trump gets to be found guilty of crimes against this nation, we all face disaster after disaster. I wonder, have we passed a point of no return?

so this

On Friday, April 13, 2018, the Middle East War began. On Friday, April 13, 2018, because no Republican had the backbone or conscience, to question the misdeeds and corruption of of Trump, we declared military strikes on Syria, because Trump, thinking of no one but himself, and in fear of being found the fraud he is and has been, he has placed this nation and the world in a dire and disastrous reality.

Trump has no love of nation, Trump has no concern for the American citizen, Trump is MORE concerned that his financial, extra-marital affairs, his being hacked into office by the Russians, and his lack of anything but narcissism, remain the priority.

And for those whose families will be sending their loved ones to Syria, to those whose families have been war torn, and tattered, for those who believed every lie and every bit of pomposity from a proven liar….for all of you good luck in clearing your conscience, because on Friday, April 13, 2018 without the privilege of the Congress and the lack of checks and balances, and the input by people like John Bolton and each and every Republican Putin puppet, another war has begun…Trump will and has and no DID everything possible to defer his criminal past and provide us into a future hopeless, and full of hazards.

Trump is still the Commander-In-Chief, and until he is sent to prison, we all suffer his consequences. Happy with your vote for Trump!

everyone anything

Once more, once again, we pretend to be shocked that ANYONE Trump is still denying EVERYTHING illegal Trump and his crime family have committed. The Talking Heads still use a question mark when making statements regarding collusion, criminal acts, anarchy, and treason; their questions are never rhetorical, and we dance around the fact that Trump is a dangerous man. How mentally unstable is he…did you know he Tweeted at 3:00 am in the morning…he loves to undercut anyone who disagrees…he changes direction and policy depending on what FOX and Friends discusses…and we wait with baited breath hoping that the ole’ ‘Checks and Balances’ our Founding Fathers realized was a staple for democracy to survive, still survives. The GOP become hero’s when they leave office, offering candid conversation regarding the mess which is Trump. Bravery for them is depart the scene of the crime, then discuss the crime, as if they were never a part of it. Once more, once again, we might go to war, because Trump is pissed that his lies about EVERYTHING are being discovered. Once more, once again, we make the common man a villain due to the temperament of Trump to try and defraud the nation of truth. And on and on and on it goes…

We pretend that there will actually be a fair and honest Midterm election in 2018. Nothing done to protect our polling places, except for the GOP pretending that EVERYTHING that went wrong in 2016 was because of Facebook. We pretend that all of the departing rats of the sinking Republican ship will improve the dems chances, all the while ignoring the hacking and continued interference by Trump’s bud Putin. We pretend that it will be okay if trump remains in office because the Dems will take over the majority of both houses of government. And then the pundents have the audacity to begin a dialogue whether or not it will be in the interest of the Dems to pursue impeachment. Really!

Each day my angst and anger heightens, knowing that Trump is STILL the guy to avoid the Constitution, the guy to make side bets, the guy whose family continues to profit from the tax payer, and the guy who hires others to rip us off in plain sight. Lets stop debating is Trump the worst, or the dumbest, or the most stupid person to sit in the Oval Office. Lets stop asking what is next. Lets BEGIN to harass each and every Republican politician, demanding why the double standard, demanding and answer instead of a propaganda line, demanding that they explain why their donors desires are the priority.  Lets stop being quiet, PLEASE, lets not remain silent. Inaction is as bad as the actions Trump and his crime family have take to fight EVERYTHING and ANYTHING democracy stands for, or at least USED to stand for. 

a rock

Closer to another war, all depending upon the mood, the mind set, the mean spiritless of the guy siting in the White House. In one episode of the Twilight Zone, there was a little boy who amassed great powers, enough such, that if you EVER disagree with him, he might send you to a far away place, might put you inside a never ending television show in which you are continuously blown to smithereens, or just have you vanish. His parent and relatives walked cautiously around him, all agreeing as best they could for fear they might his next victim. Finally a trusting teacher steps in and builds trust with the young boy, hoping her best to dissuade him from his horrific ways. But that scary character was fiction, and at least the author tried to create a scenario in which good could triumph over evil. 

Those departing GOP spineless anarchist politicians are leaving the Ship of Fools, which they helped craft, create and cater to. Some feel by just leaving the war they created they are heroes. Some are whispering aloud that perhaps they made some bad decisions, and some thinking that admitting to the public what sham of a man Trump was is and will be, somehow is a confession, from which they can find salvation. Others, of course like Paul Ryan, use, the “It’s for my kids”, excuse, and demands he is leaving to be a full time father rather than a full time FART! Amid all of this the screws of some mind of justice are hopefully being driven tighter and tighter by Mr Mueller, and if you listen close enough you might hear a bit of screaming coming from the Oval Office. But sadly for this nation when Trump screams, he has the ability to make the citizens of this nation SCREAM, and the world go to war. If there IS no conscience, no soul, no real means of sanity, just an empty insecure narcissistic shell of a man, how could anyone even consider dealing with Trump.

I have tried to listen to the Trump supporters, explain that they hated Hillary, it was Bernie or Bust, that Trump even though he never demonstrated, via facts that he was the Businessman of the Century, and that they still believe that HIS form of governing will work. But I grow tired of being the bigger person, and permitting them to continue deny the wreck and ruin running rampant in this nation, because Trump is immoral, immature and unprepared for this position. The thing for me, about good and evil is simple. After a while when bigotry, bias, hate and almost every kind of negative policy is enacted to hurt, the poor, the immigrant, the elderly the homosexual, the woman, the people of color, is repeated and repeated and those who support Trump STILL do so, I must wonder do they understand good from evil right from wrong. How much more of a conversation is necessary when time after time, the only places that come from Trump benefit him, his family or the very one percent of wealthy donors, who seem to hate America and love they money. Debate is necessary, but when who you debate a rock, it only leaves that discussion in a hard place. If Trump continues to succeed, who really wins?

once more a committee

It was a giddy site, watching the GOP led Committee grill little Mark Zuckerberg. Finally, the Republican’s found their phantom, the eerie figure who INDEED was the cause for the downfall of democracy. It was like reviving the days of Benghazi, when without the real necessity for facts the Republicans could emerge as soldiers of dignity, certain to find the boogie man who stole our election process from right under the Constitution, you know the piece of paper with the most precious of Amendments, the second one. It was as if back in the glory days when a scapegoat was needed to confuse the American population and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg became the reason why we needed Senator Joe McCarthy and his unAmerican self-serving process of “Are you now or Have you Eve been a Communist” smear campaign. Of course, had Mark Zuckerberg ferreted out the fictional postings and pictures and platitudes all would have been well, and Trump would have still won the election and there could have, would have, NEVER been the silliest of ideas of collusion with the Russians. Glee grabbed the GOP by their empty ball sacks and as Sarah Palin often times lamented, the GOP wanted to shout “Gotcha!”

Except as is the case, all we got from Mark Zuckerberg, who looked like he found his old Bar Mitzvah suit and wanted to impress his grand parents, what we got was that insincere response, of “the buck stops with me, until it doesn’t, and the feign promise most politicians mutter of “IF I hurt you I apologize. The GOP took advantage of debating regulations insisting that the Dodd-Frank regulations never was intended to hurt the Too Big To Fail Banks, just the little guys, and how UnAmerican was that. Absence makes the heart grow weak, and it seemed that none of the GOP cared less that the Airline Industry, the Energy Cartels the Communications Giants have grown and grown and the more so have become unregulated and the consumer, the climate, and common sense have been either laid to waste, or will certainly be laid to wither and rot.

The biggest HA HA, if one considers any of this show and tell facade fun, was the discussion of FAKE NEWS, by the GOP! Fucking Fake news, as if Facebook was totally responsible for its existence…not word ONE regarding the propaganda Network FOX and its leaders lies, Donald Trump. Oh the Republicans love lavish Congressional media events when they think that the public will be gullible to find a monster and haven their tar and feather ready to destroy it.  Promises, were made, none to be kept. But avoidance, distraction, purposeful slight if hand had its day, not in court but in the work wheel of a political party never ready to admit the truth about themselves, but overjoyed to point a finger away from them, knowing the lemming, like the moth will follow the bright shiny object, only to burn to death in doing so, What a side show, why it was one more Benghazi!

they had it coming

They had it coming They had it coming

They had it coming all along

I didn't do it (and then they used it)

But if I'd done it

How could you tell me 

That I was wrong? (‘Cell Block Tango/Fred Ebb)

Wham, bam a temper tantrum for the Century, seething, hissing…witch trials I declare, a bunch of flamboozel, Michael Cohen making the profession of the attorney into an atrocity. What now, a con job on the original con man, it ain’t fair I say, I am the greatest even better than ALI! I will how you I will send the Troops to Syria, I will send the Troops to the boarder, I will send Troops to sanctuary cities. My taxes, my businesses, my lies, no ones business. I told you i would be the best better best-es president in the world, and I will take over the world. “I didn’t do it, because I said so, but if I had done it, I would be so smooth that no one who is not under the blackmail spider wed of my best bud Vlad Putin would be willing to step forward and prove. I am the captain of my ship, but when it sinks, I will be on a Russian life boat and all of the chumps riding the crest will fall to the bottom of the sea!

More lies revealed because one man is pursuing the ultimate truth. More suspects criminal behavior apparent because one man believes no one, even one sitting in the Oval Office has special rights, above and beyond the Constitution. AND more denials, fill with fraught, but more importantly drowning in threats. If I hear one more Talking Head speak or write about some kind of Constitutional Crisis, I will throw my TV set off the balcony as in the movie ‘Network’. Damn, people, WE ARE in a Constitutional Crisis right now. We have a majority party pretending they care about collusion, crime, bribery, blackmail, almost like drag queens lip syncing their words that there is nothing really bad to see here right now. We have a majority party trying to undermine the plight of justice. We have an unqualified, idiot, whose references were never once questioned not properly checked to seek any truth as to his abilities to lead this nation. And we have a man who if he was not skiing in the White House COULD not pass a back ground check to become Commander-In Chief, let a lone guard at a local bank in Des Moines Iowa.

Bull shit you didn’t do it Trump. What I worry about is just how much pre-meditated damage you are planning for the rest of us who know you did it, and just how much more pain you will cause this nation. Go to Jail Already you creep!

Invaders From Mars

“Invaders From Mars”, 1953 Science Fiction Movie, Screenplay by William Cameron Menzies and Richard Blake: Curious adolescent boy David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) confronts aliens who have set up base in his backyard. The extraterrestrials intend to use mind control on the local townsfolk. Determined to stop the invaders, who have already co-opted his father (Leif Erickson), he attempts to warn others. But when local law officers also succumb, David teams up with astronomer Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz) and Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter), and the trio must fight together to repel the insidious intruders.

It was the Liberty Theater, located in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Liberty Theater was once a magnificent entertainment venue, dressed in fine gothic dark black brick with just enough peering three headed flying monsters on the facade to either scare the living shit out of you or intrigue you most adventurous imagination. Inside, this two balconied edifice were lots of corners, shadowy spaces in which anyone in their right mind would understand some kind of creature was lurking. It wasn’t until around 1957 when my father took me and my little sister to the Liberty for a double bill of thrill and horror, and by that time the Liberty Theater’s better boisterous days had been ebbing, so all the glitz and glamour turned rusty and the words to describe this once proud palace were like moldy, murky and mysterious; quite the venue to witness and invasion by Martians. “Invaders From Mars”, to this day, is still one of THOSE films I still find a faint shudder and a slight hesitation to watch. The plot scared me, not necessarily the Martians per se, but the idea that your parents, your friends, your protectors, your government, ALL of the things I held near and dear as a kid, could suddenly be transformed into alien creatures; ALL at the ready to try and make you (ME in this case) into some kind of non human THING. Little Jimmy Hunt, knew exactly what was going on, and knew he had to stop this madness from spreading. But anytime he tried to reason with an individual he thought should, could would understand, it seemed they too became unwilling to believe. How frustrating, how terrifying, how maddening!

I love hate “Invaders From Mars”, and honestly since the inception of Anything Trump, my mind has wandered back to sitting in the spooky Liberty Theater looking into the vacant two balconies, knowing that something with red sinister eyes was looking back at me almost mocking me, whispering, nothing you can do about this, we are coming to get you. With no assistance from Anyone Republican, with no assistance from the supposedly good Christian people, with the Talking Heads still acting shocked at the most current stupid Un-American act, intimated by Trump, and with the Dems still thinking they will take over the House and or Congress, while NOTHING at all has been set in place to stop another Russian hacking of our polling places, all I can do is fret as I did when I was young! The damn truth is out there, clear as day, right in front of our faces and yet, it seems no one really is paying attention. It took little Jimmy Hunt and one mad scientist to fight, fight, fight watching as everyone around them was turning into Martians. I could see the truth, but it seemed no one else really cared. I am, to this day still afraid to watch “Invaders From Mars”, by myself. HELP!

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Just said WHY

On Friday, April 6, 2018, I either had the privilege or the “pain in my middle class the ass," to visit the Social Security Administration Office located on Vine Street in the heart of Hollywood, my mission was to replace a long lost social security card, first provided to me decades ago. Anything government and everything government bureaucracy is not an easy participant sport, but this trip was my choice so I willingly placed my self in the every chaotic hands of federal employees, necessary to help a very teetering government at least, while it choses, to provide the average citizen with services; services I should say the government insists are necessary. I had no idea, I could have made an appointment, so unwittingly I arrived to a room full of people awaiting attention for services much more important and much more day to day survival than my lost or misplaced Social Security card. But a bit of paranoia has begun to course through my 68 year old veins and i just want to make sure I have all of my documentation in place. (As I just wrote the word documentation,  a sad fleeting thought found its way to the front of my brain remaining me of the documentation which became a matter of life or death for the many Jews and enemy of the state of the german Nazi government.) 

As I sat and waited my two hour and forty seven minutes to hear my number called, trying my best to NOT become annoyed, I overheard a variety of languages spoken by those sitting in the same waiting arena as I, and i also overheard some very sad stories related by the American citizen to the Social Security Employees, neatly tucked behind panels of glass in very small cubicles on the other side of a wall. Some peoples intonation seemed desperate, as in no SSI, no money for food or rent, some needing their checks and reassurances so they could proceed to their next medical appointment, one if they miss, they may have to wait months on end to re set a time. I heard some older people speaking in their native tongues with people I supposed were their children explaining that his oil her parent had no idea of the paper work necessary. And a few cases where some people could no longer wait for their number to be called, as they have already missed enough work and might be fired if they don’t show up soon. There were mothers who had no other choice but to bring one, two three even in some circumstances four of their children with them, as these women could not afford child care, and as we all know sitting and waiting in a cement bricked beige building with nothing bur coughing and the screeching of plastic chairs is difficult enough for adults and almost like Hell for rambunctious energetic children. I sat there, with my I-Phone, pissed at first that I was so bored, but trying my best to NOT be a member of this Social Security Administration group, I had no choice but to watch and wonder, and say a little grace, “There for the grace of God go I.”

My turn to speak American Bureaucracy to a very bored man behind his window, expressing no emotion came and went, all in the minutes, and I was free to be released from prison. As I started my departure from this captive edifice, I noticed most of the same people still sitting, fidgeting, fretting, hoping to at least find some freedom by receiving at least enough money to survive, until the next crisis. As I exited, i notice two eight by ten framed photos of Pence and Trump, dressed in their China made suits, smiling and confident. I raised my middle finger as a salute and notification of my respect for these crooks, turned in an almost slow motion dramatic swing of my head to the people behind me, sighed, and felt a lump in my throat. There is so much potential, so much greatness humans have accomplished during our life on Earth, and yet for every step forward, we seem to fall back two or three paces. For every hero, we then seem to insist on four villains. I don’ why, i said to myself. But more importantly as I embraced the cool LA breeze exiting this miserable building, I looked to the sky, where I believe the God I trust lives and just said WHY! 

National Guard

National Guard on the boarder with an ally, Mexico, what could possibly go wrong. National Guard sent to Kent State because a president feared the possibility that a bunch of hippie’s might be correct for their demand to end a war, created for political purposes only.  National Guard in Selma, Alabama because a cowardly Governor, fearful that his bigoted and biased hatred might be proven the incorrect way to provide leadership to his citizens. National Guard on the streets of Los Angeles, because the anger and frustration by people of color grew loud and out of control and was seeping into the quiet white neighborhoods of the city of angles and every one was sure that the devil was coming to take over.

Trump is a brat a mentally unstable brat, who will never stop lashing out. He is enabled by a spineless and most likely blackmailed group of Republicans who care less about country and more about opportunity, self serving opportunity. Checks and balances are invisible, and the only rule of law not challenged is that of Vladimir Putin.

What happens next? Seriously, do we shoot to kill. Is Trump’s ego so fragile that the next best thing to do for spite, is to declare war on Mexico? Sending National Guard Troops to anywhere in this country has never ended with good news, only some bad history. But then again history, good, or bad has never resonated with Trump, so whatever he does or is told to do by Fox and Friends will only cause more damage. Another day, another way to dismantle this nation just so we can stop women from seeking the freedom for their own reproductive rights and those pesky Gays from remaining human. Trump is a brat whom has never faced any consequences for his actions. he is the kind of guy who not only will shout fire while in the theater, but lock all the exit doors, then stand in front of burning building, laugh and place a low bid to buy the place once all its occupants have perished. Think about that, all of you Trump voters, any remorse or are you still as empty of a person as Trump?

pessimistic

I have become more pessimistic regarding the future of this nation, currently then I have ever been during my life. Not the pessimism that as the Evangelicals swoon over, The End Days are near, but more so that the end of freedom and equality for ALL are much too certain. And that the end of freedom and equality for ALL will commence due to the few. Democracy had always sounded like a sweet political philosophy ever since the Revolutionary War. In studying US History, I understand that true democracy never fully blossomed, but the intent and the interest to let democracy grow was in the air. When mankind stops believing in truth and prefer to state truth a form of corruption appears. When mankind stops believing in government and instead think they ARE the government, we too often experience authoritarianism, dictatorship, or royalty; each which permits a select few to act as Lord and Master. I am not naive enough to believe that once the Civil War ended, the African American population became equals to their ex-owners. I am not naive enough to believe when signs attached to neighborhoods stating, no Jews, no Colored, no Catholics permitted were burnt and destroyed that all neighborhoods were easily accessible. I am not too naive to believe that when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, workplaces welcomed anyone who needed assistance access. I am not naive enough to believe that who the Supreme Court  announced that same-sex marriage is the law of the land that each and every state and municipality would, with warm hearts agree. And I am not naive enough to believe that the Me Too movement, and the fight for equal rights for women has endeared enough of the genders of conservatives to understand that it was not one of Adam’s ribs that created women. BUT, I once was certain all of these attempts at a more democratic process and policy COULD and WOULD lead this nation further. Now, with the hacking of Trump into the Oval Office, the blackmailing of the RNC to support Trump and the tactics of fear and loathing toward the very inept, the very unintelligent, the very self loathing Americans, I grow scared and as I started out writing, pessimistic regarding the future of this nation.

So, I worry, as is my strong personality trait, I worry that this horror show created by Putin, enabled by Evangelicals, permitted by Republicans and approved by bigots racists, homophobes, misogynists and very dumb people will not end easily. The Democrats pat themselves on the back with a variety of special election victories. The Talking Heads, still making lots of dollars to pontificate on matters to which they only can provide suggestions, the so called news reporters, and hopeful Democrat pundents all pretend that the MidTerm election is going to be an upheaval, almost a revival bringing back some form of checks and balances which have been desperately missing in action. BUT yet…there has been little done to correct hacking into polling places, little done to correct strict voter ID Laws. And worst of all Trump still sits in the Oval Office, and via his paranoia, and mental illness he still has a lot of tricks up his sleazy sleeve to make sure the MidTerm election are still rigged or worse, quite never happen. I hear a lot of pep talk, but to win the game it takes practice, guts, sweat and training. I see and feel none of that, so I remain pessimistic. 

when enough

I had asked for  an alternative student teaching placement, while in college, and was lucky enough to find myself for one semester as the student teacher in Holy Family Parochial School located at the time in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Here I was a Jewish guy teaching in a Catholic School. It was the 60’s so I looked like the brown headed young Jesus, with my long hair and thick bushy beard. The Mother Superior, upon meeting me in her office, looked up at the picture she had of Jesus Christ, smiled and said, perhaps once you two were relatives, then she giggled, and closed the conversation by saying this is just between you and I. I took a quick glance at the picture and actually thought that Jesus looked like my cousin Billy. There were many rules and regulation at Holy Family, and as any student teacher I knew i would abide by them. I wanted this challenge in my career, because I needed to know what it was like to be in elementary school and not be Jewish. The kids loved me, I became the PE teacher, albeit all we had was a cemented courtyard, but at least the kids had a chance to let off some steam, and relax from a very regimented curriculum and behavior environment. It was about the fourth week when a young third grade student came over to me, and asked, “Mr B, when honestly when is enough REALLY enough?” I was taken aback and questioned his question trying to find a reference point so I could try and answer his question. The third grade student, without a moment of hesitation, replied Sister Ambrose, always says enough is enough, she smacks her ruler on the desk, we pretend to be afraid, fold our hands and say sorry Sister, and class goes on”. But then the next day or the next class we hear that enough is enough. My brain began to race, I was trying my best to respond, after all I pictured myself the hero the young Jesus look alike cool guy able to leap tall buildings and answer what might at fist seem like smart ass answers but which in reality had great depth and perception in its being asked. I looked at the student, and said, “None of us know when enough is enough, but we try to be reasonable as to when certain behaviors should end. Sister Ambrose wants it quiet in her classroom, what she is really saying to you is that YOU can control the noise, that you know when it is enough.” I was not sure if what I said, made any sense, but then this third grade student, surprised me and responded, “So Sister will keep on complaining knowing that she has little to do with stopping what she doesn’t like, and that even hitting the ruler on the desk is not the answer.” “So I guess I and my friends have a lot of power.” “Thanks Mr B, oh and by the way, my Mom thinks you look more like Jesus than Jesus.”

So, now America, thanks to Putin, his Oligarchs, Comrade McConnell, Comrade Ryan and the entire spineless group of Republican Congress People and of course the idiot citizens of America who needed no more than Trumps’s word as to how great a President he would be, we now hear that Troops will be sent to our ally Mexico’s boarder because the Mexican government has the audacity to NOT pay for a fantasy wall. We will have a military parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, because Mr Bone Deferment, who probably dresses up in German Nazi Military outfits, can feel more masculine. We will not place real sanctions on the Russians for fear that all kinds of blackmail information will leak regarding the RNC and Trump. And we are abandoning the Turkish Kurds, another ally who has helped keep the number of innocent Syrian people from staying under at least half a million. So, now because the stupid are much more reliable to remain stupid using any kind of scare tactic, we have Trump and his Cabinet robbing the tax payer blind. So, now I have to reflect to my third grade student at Holy Family School and ask when is enough ENOUGH. And then I must remember as my third grade student reminded me, I do have the power to stop this. I, we must fight on and on and on. Silence is a killer!

Continue

It was, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, just yesterday. I awoke feared the information I might find on my news feed regarding the immature idiot, placed into office by a corrupt group of enemies of the state, from Putin to McConnell, Manafort, Flynn, enabled by Rupert Murdoch and embraced by a group of Christian Evangelicals believing that not permitting same-sex marriages, and women the freedom toward their own reproduction organs is more of a priority than saving democracy. I awoke, ready to write another blog, where I would sigh, simmer, stew, rant and rave, knowing that mostly people who agreed with my sense of what is fair and what is rotten would read my words; and somehow learning that during the we hours of the morning, the man placed into the position of Commander-In Chief spewed his few remaining brains cells on wanting to place troops on Mexican boarder, praised Putin again, continued to divide families with his lack of knowledge of DACA and of course his lack of empathy for anyone not named Trump. I sat up in bed, and could actually feel my heart racing so fast that for a moment I feared I might actually be in the midst of a heart attack. As my rate of breathing increased, as if my brain had become my enemy, all I could thing about was everything, NO EVERYTHING, bad, gross, wrong, immoral perpetuated by Trump and permitted by a billionaire donor class of Republicans, encouraged by a most stupid uneducated group of deplorable Americans, assisted by a gaggle of greedy paid puppet GOP politicians, and embraced by the most bigoted individuals this nation has seen since both the American Civil War and WWII! All of this, honestly, all of this hit my body and soul at one time, and all I could do was fall back into the bed place the sheets over my head, and tell my very worried husband, I can’t get up, I just can’t cope with today. Joe, being a loving spouse, became worried was I really about to have a nervous breakdown, maybe a stroke. He tried his best to comfort me, but NOTHING could calm the nervous tsunami swirling rising and falling inside my gut. For that moment, that morning, I almost gave up, gave in, and almost let Trump win.

For those who read my blogs, thank you for letting me share my angst, my anger my frustration my fear, but on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, no coherent words, no sensible sane thoughts, nothing could forge its way forward from me. Trump IS still sitting in the Oval Office and it seems nothing is really being done to thwart the efforts of his puppet master Putin from Trump continuing to con this country. It was difficult for me yesterday, trying my hardest to avoid each and every ignorant, uninformed, bit of treason tried by Trump. I guess the saying, that you must reach the bottom before healing thyself holds true for me. On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 I let trump win, ready to let him take my country from me. But then today, on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, I awoke and DECIDED, silence equals death, and if I die, it will not because I said nothing, but because I died screaming the truth, for me and the next generation of my family and friends. We must remove this man from office. We must stop the stupid from running this nation. We must begin to set higher moral standards. We must be loud, we must make our voices heard.

The Habit

“I don’t want to, but I have to,” that was the exact quote my father used, when responding to people asking him why he smoked cigarettes. He used that quote until he had his first heart attack. His doctor, told my dad,”Howard, no more cigarettes ever, you never know which puff will be your last.” The day he left the hospital my father took a pack of Camels the ones with no filters placed it in his shirt pocket. Before doing so, he did a show and tell for his family, demonstrating just how pristinely packed in plastic the pack looked, even with that little red tie string on top for easy access in opening the cancer filled product, and then said the following, “I know if I want to I can, but that doesn’t mean I have to.” Until my father was fully retired, until he stopped wearing shirts that had a pocket on the chest he carried that same pack of Camel cigarettes each and every day, and never once opened them or another pack of cigarettes. I never smoked so I thought it must not be so difficult to give up something so terrible for your health, I mean come on you either live or die, what kind of difficult choice could that possibly be?!?!

Part of my ritual, once again (I say once again, because after Putin stole the 2016 election from Hillary and America, I had to stop watching any kind of news), is to first look at my phone, hoping World War Three had not started, or that Martial Law had not been declared, or that hopefully the idea of ‘checks and balances’ had been re-established; then off to the kitchen, clicking  on MSNBC, knowing that my already empty stomach may churn a bit more. If Joe is still in the house he will ask me “WHY”, I do this to myself and way back in my head a hear a little knock as if it is the door leading to the past and as the door knocks i hear my fathers voice saying, “I don’t want to, but I have to.” 

We all know, those of us who actually give one shit about democracy that Putin has a whole lot of EVERYTHING, blackmail wise on Trump. The silly dance this nation is doing pretending that Trump is just a victim of circumstance, is a terrible injustice to what is right and what is wrong, but if you are a Republican politician or donor, YOU understand the only way of your survival is to pretend a Fascist puppet and Party are not in power. Today’s Trump tidbits included, an invitation to Putin to sit in the White House, a stab in the back of the Kurdish rebels, our ally’s, a demonstration of a lack of knowledge let alone moral decency toward the dreamers and the DACA program, and an appreciation for a Conservative monopoly called Sinclair Broadcasting to act as a local FOX News and provide fake news as factual news. I sat there and stared blankly into the television set, scaring Joe a bit, who aside from his usual statement of  “I don’t why you watch this stuff it just makes you sick”added honey ARE you okay? ” And then, once again, instead of a tiny knock at the back of my head, there was a pounding, it was my fathers voice, this time booming. But it was a different quote, this quote was, “This IS gonna kill you” And then I realized, it, ever since Trump and Putin and McConnell took away our Constitution I have been getting sicker and sicker, but somehow I can’t stop. I never smoked, but now I understand the difficulty in giving up a habit that is so life threatening!

corrupt, criminals, common

Corrupt, so called Christians, criminals, all Cabinet members, crooked and conniving, all convinced crime comes with their newest careers, we watch as the Clan the con man called Trump as convened, rob and steal the American tax payer, most of time not even trying to hide their greed and gluttony. Satisfying the bane and bigoted baseless voter that the Swamp was only a Democrat Party contraption, Trump's Clan evolves into a lying legion of goons, using fiction as their choice or weaponry and swaddles their pockets with treasures, favors, and promises to enrich the already wealthy, and to pretend all of this is done to protect then underdog, who still wishes coal was clean, the earth was Flat, and women along with the Negro, remained chattel for the Caucasian who, most assuredly was living on this Continent before the red skinned Native American.

It is no longer breaking news when a Cabinet member is caught ripping off the citizen, it is no longer an exception to the rule when a Cabinet member has no idea of the purpose for his or her position, and it is not longer braking news, that a single Cabinet member is or was breaking the law! And how do we respond, with the same stupid shock and awe, George W Bush pretended was taking place as he and his oil barons attempted to steal the minerals from Iraq; with a puff and a whimper.

We are here, right now, because there is disregard for the Constitution by a political party which never had need for real democracy, and by a population of people, more intent on blaming others for a miserable condition, they decided to choose. There is no more dignity, but disgrace for the Trumps and the GOP. There is disregard and no defense of rights or laws, by Trump or the GOP. And most of all, my worry is at there is little will or want to stop the total destruction of a government once upon a time which attempted to be a democracy!