the wise old owl

“The wise old owl is a curious fellow; he has ears like a cat and his are yellow…” No matter the holiday, secular, religious, or just Patriotic (the old kind, where Communists were NOT cool, IKE (as in Eisenhower, was right,) married couples, at least on black and white television slept in separate beds with a convenient nightstand between them… Back in those days when our public schools not only had scenes of the CRESH, and decorated Christmas Trees with an angel on top in the lobby, along with a Menorah, (our school was most likely 90% Jewish demographic,) with the reciting of a passage from the Bible, and “The Lords” Prayer with ALL hands folded, and of course standing tall for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (not the Nazi Swastika nor the Confederate Cross, but the Stars and the Stripes, to begin the day…Miss Marie Cyphers, our Music Teacher (Yep, back then we enjoyed the arts, having Art Class, Music Class, and Instrument Class, and occasional Ball Room Dance lessons…Because a boy needed to grow into a Gentleman, and a girl must never be anything but a respected Lady) Miss Cyphers taught her classes Grade K to 8 all genres of songs, so ALL of us would have a better understanding that the USA was a melting pot, more so for the white kids, and mainly for the Christian kids, but still a place where Immigrants were welcomed (and many of my classmates were only first-generation Americans.) I wish I remembered more of the lyrics of the song “The Wise Old Owl,” and its lyricist, (but age is sneaking its fogyish way into my brain, and little tiny stuff seems to remain hidden. Even for Halloween, Miss Cyphers had music to lighten up the THEN spookiest holiday a young kid could experience. 

Many of us lucky enough to go “trick or treating, “ back then, walking in our own SAFE neighborhoods, or if one of the neighbors owned a station wagon (what the hell was an SUV, back then), we would all pile in and drive a few blocks to the really huge homes a few blocks away, and as if we had never seen or eaten candy and would “trick or treat, “ at homes in which that seemed only millionaires lived. (In LA a million might get you a two-bedroom condo on the second floor.) Rain or snow, yep Pittsburgh in October back in the day, could surprise you with an inch or two of snow. These homes had AMAZING decorations, and some had candied apples and even hot dogs. We would return home, and the only candy we could not eat, was anything unwrapped, back then the fruit was not a terrorist piece of ammunition, so that too was on the good list (Razorblade stories had not yet reached anyone’s attention.

As I write this BLOG, I do so for a variety of reasons: of course a trip down memory lane is fun (albeit as does our skin tone, our muscle strength, our joints age, and change, so do memories, sometimes truth-tellers, often time, tellers of a truth we thought was real, and have hung on to and perhaps embellished…But, because we ARE still living in the present, a condition full of an attack on ALL beauties of America, due to Trump and his Crime Syndicate, I write this Halloween BLOG, in respect for the Children STILL DETAINED in TRUMP’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS, and for the innocent victims of gun violence and the TERRORIST’S, who let the murder of innocents permeate into our culture, like the NRA, the insecure folk who have only heard about the Second Amendment (most likely never having read all of I, or even understanding its context, let alone the having read our Constitution, the too well-armed Militias, whose members include, many with no “background checks,” into their mental abilities, and the men and women in Congress who ENABLE death and dying each day in America, thinking that Jesus, if only he had been armed, would have slaughtered the Romans(or the Jews depending on how REALLY  anti-Sematic some Evangelicals remain.) 

Maybe the Mexicans and those in Central America have a better idea when they celebrate  Dia De Los Muertos, on November 1.( Dia de Los Muertos is a celebration of expression in many ways. Not only is it dedicated to remembering and honoring those loved ones who have passed, but it's also centrally focused on the artistic expression of the living through the creation of ofrendas, costumes, cooking, and other tokens and offerings. 

just another day

“I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car He didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They'd seen his face before Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords”(A Day In the Life/John Lennon)

Laura Ingraham sits upon the throne inside an Ivory Tower created for and by angry people, for whom nothing is better in life than discovering and enemy, an agent of ill will, whose only purpose in life is to rob YOU, the victim, of your ability to hate, discriminate, and blame the OTHER. She delights in sharing fables and foibles describing truth and justice as schemes and sinister boxes of tricks, similar to the musical box when wound up long enough, a giant clown will appear and scare the daylights out of your innocent but devious intent. She is joined by Tucker Carlson who among his ability to reside in that Ivory Tower, is to predict the end of the world based on too much attention paid toward minorities, be they of color, sexual orientation, religion or original geographical birthplace. Both of these White Nationalist Knights are joined by Sean Hannity, an uneducated entertainer, a court jester if you will, pretending that he is some kind of alchemist, able to predict the future, by dismantling any details, any facts, and truth from the past. In their Kingdom. And in a figurative way, all three get away with murder, of democracy, and slowly but surely are rewarded for keeping just enough arsenic in their viewers coffee mugs, assuring a slow and agonizing death for Americans too afraid of their own shadows…because these PARTICULAR folks think the shadows are not their own but the images of the ENEMY!

“I read the news today, oh boy Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire And though the holes were rather small They had to count them all Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall…” (A Day In the Life/John Lennon)

A Cadre of Cadets working for the Republican Army, soldiers on the war against democracy, financially supported by billionaire Russian Oligarchs (imagine a supposed Communist Nation, you know the People’s Party Philosophy with so much wealth), joined to the hip with the Evangelical Crusaders of Christ,(whose own Quid Pro Quo, is to deny any civil rights to the LGBTQ/Women’s Rights/Immigrant Freedoms, via laws which defile the Constitution’s point of Separation between Church and State), and supported by the supposed Middle of America/The Heartland/ the Calloused Hands, and Family Values Laborers/Miners/Farmers…all support the lies, the crimes, the bias, bogus and bull shit, of Trump, because Trump has learned the value of FEAR, and his minions and the wealthy donors who give actually no shit about this nation, know that the Human weakness of FEAR is greater than the Human potential for LOVE.

“Woke up, fell out of bed Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup And looking up I noticed I was late Found my coat and grabbed my hat Made the bus in seconds flat Made my way upstairs and had a smoke And everybody spoke and I went into a dream”(A Day In the Life/John Lennon) Another day, more bad news, more deflection, more denial, more dementia, more danger, and less and less Democracy. Why is this Just Another Day in the Life!

all hate

A Veteran, injured in the invented Bush/Cheney war in Iraq, a Purple Heart recipient, who happened to be an Immigrant, one of the millions who had arrived on the shores of this nation ever since Columbus and the Pilgrims…a Solider, with enough Patriotism, and love for his adopted country is one of the brave Americans to come forward, out of the shadows of anonymity and express HIS dire concerns for the lawlessness and unconstitutional behavior of Donald Trump, hacked into office a president…and suddenly this man, his valor, his placing his life on the line for the United States is greeted as a traitor, as JUST another “NEVER TRUMP,” and a common thug, by the Party of Putin the Grand Old Party/the Republican Party/the Russian Oligarch members of Congress. Not demonstrating even one component/iota/inch of compassion, or embarrassment, the Republican Propaganda Spin Machine, via FOX News/the RNC, and the ever anarchist leaders of the GOP, Kevin McCarthy, #Moscow Mitch, Lady Lindsey Graham, each and every one attacking the truth-teller, for nothing but a Con Artist, lying narcissistic puppet, named Trump. The new “cool” term used by the Oligarchs of the Republican Party seems to be “Never Trump,” why don’t the Democrat Leadership just play the same three-year-old name-calling game as the GOP and define all of the Oligarchs as “Never American?”  

On this same day, where Justice is trying its darndest to make a comeback, Dennis A. Muilenburg, President and CEO of Boeing, is now sitting in front of a Senate Committee, being asked why and how the hell, if Boeing knew about the faulty, the shoddy and the short cuts taken in building the Boeing 737 Max, he still permitted this aircraft to “fly off the production line.” And in its wake cause the death and destruction of the crew and passengers who flew on the plane, assuming that this NEWEST invention was safe, sound and secure. Mr. Muilenburg, when interviewed just prior to his meeting with the Senate, did a wonderful acting job, demonstrating the lowering of his head, the monotone, emotionless speaking voice, the hardly any eye contact with the reporter, a kind of shucks guys, I really didn’t intend o murder, anyone, after all I was doing the right thing for my Shareholders, by cutting costs…and isn’t that truly the American way. When asked if he would step down, quit, get the fuck out of his job, something the victim’s family and friends have demanded of a premeditated murderer…Mr. Muilenburg demurred as most CEO’s do when they have no intention of quitting unless they receive their multi-million dollar parachute bonus, and played the “I am more concerned in fixing this, face,” dismissing the deaths of hundreds a just an oopsie, my bad!

Where do we begin and where do we go, where do we try to find the truth and how often have we failed. Are we not ALL human, with the same needs? Are we not here if we are lucky for no more than a century, supposed to provide another generation a chance at life, liberty, health, and welfare? For those who believe in a higher power, a deity, a God, don’t isn’t that belief system SUPPOSED TO INCLUDE: equality, love, freedom from torment, and pain? For those who see science as the true creator, are we not supposed to discover IT’S powers and process to live a life of empowerment? Each day, I have to wonder, for what purpose do we even have another day, if all we do is HATE!

Ball Game

“Take me out to the ballgame Take me out to the crowd Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack I don't care if I never get back”

Sharing “the Washington Suite” with Trump for Game 5 of the World Series between Nats and Astros, where a cast of Tea Bagging, Treasonous Treacherous, Traders from the Russian Republican Party, who by all accounts had their evening at the Ball Park paid for by the Tax Payer. This INFAMOUS bevy of bogus and bigoted betrayers of motherhood, apple pie, white picket fences and of course included two Senators, David Perdue, and that Little Lindsey Graham lover all of all things Putin! Along for the ride were a few Tea Bagging, I could give one shit about democracy Congresspeople such as the illustrious daughter of the Iraqi Scheme to make Big Bucks off the OIL Fields in the Middle East, and the useless lives of both the American Troops and of course those lightly brown-skinned Muslims, Liz (let the Indigenous Tribes of North America go back to where they came from Cheney. Along for the Tax Payer Free Ride were the let’s Storm the Security Room of Congress, the Delightful DUI Guy, Matt (My father will have you fired for giving me a ticket for driving while drunk and wealthy) Gaetz, Mark (no matter what they  do, if it is done by the Dems it is a coup) Meadows, the ever hypocritical Christian Crusader, Steve Scalise, and the new wannabe Paul Ryan, but with a few more balls, Kevin McCarthy. They were also joined with lesser-known, but just as Russian Ruble Hungry bribes, Andy Biggs, Kay Granger, John Ratcliffe, and Kevin Brady. Due to Princess Ivanka’s anniversary weekend, (Again paid in full by the TaxPayers), Trump was stuck bringing his stand-in First Lady Melania who removed the Anchor as in Anchor Immigrant. But I am Princess Ivanka will make it up to Daddy Trump, by sitting on his lap in the Oval Office!

“So it's root, root, root, for the home team If they don't win, it's a shame It's one, two, three strikes you're out At the old ballgame.”

Seems, the root, root, root was more like BOO, BOO, BOO, and a  whole of “Lock ‘em Up’s. Standing, waving, as if he was at one of his Hitleresque or Mussolini Fascist Rallies, Trump stood gave that “go get ‘em fist, as he tried to smile. But as evil would have it, both eyes have become as squinty as his lips now taking on that odd shape of a real ass hole (the anatomy, not person), that if you looked close enough you were not certain if he was shitting in his pants, or was just released as a part of a human centipede and still had the bandages remaining from being tied to Putin’s ass! If Trump had Handlers, (most creatures of the wild need handlers,) someone might have told the NARCISSIST that going anywhere in public except for his Nazi Red Cap Re-Election Klan meetings is NOT a good idea. But lo and behold, Trump and his cadre of either blackmailed or bribed tribe of anarchists went to World Series. I am certain, there will be spin, in a few iterations. First, I am certain the Adderall dosage was increased and placed into his Coke and speaking of Coke, I betcha Melania had her “for special emergencies” pack of white powder at the ready, for just such events. FOX News most likely replaced the boo’s and the “lock him up with voice-overs of look at him and he is the best! Oh yeah, and Trump refused to throw out the first pitch…for the first time, he discovered sanity, but then again he is never one to endanger his life and probably knew that there were a WHOLE lot of Americans wanting to throw their first pitch right back at him!

 

anything you can do

“I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.” (Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham/10/26/19)

Chris Wallace questioned the VP on Trump saying he didn’t inform Pelosi in advance, with “the implication seeming to be that Pelosi or members of Congress would leak this.”

“Does the President not trust the Speaker of the House with sensitive national security information?” Wallace asked.

Pence disputed that was the implication, saying Trump’s “total focus was on a successful mission” and on the safety of the troops. (MEDIA-ite)

President Donald Trump compared Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Osama bin Laden during his press conference announcing the ISIS leader’s death.

“Hamza — Bin Laden was a big thing, but this is the biggest there is,” the president said. “This is the worst ever. Osama bin Laden was very big but Osama bin Laden became big with the World Trade Center. This is a man who built a whole — as he would like to call it — a country, a caliphate. And was trying to do it again.”(MEDIA-ite)

Dana Shell Smith, a former U.S. ambassador to Qatar, warned that being so descriptive could backfire by stoking more anger toward the United States. She pointed out that former President Barack Obama was far more careful in describing al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden's killing. The Obama administration even pointed out that it gave bin Laden's body an Islamic funeral ritual before slipping it into the ocean. "It was important for our relationships in the region and safety of our military and diplomats," the former ambassador wrote on Twitter. "It’s how America rolls. With honor. We don’t delight in death like the terrorists do." Bednarek said the president’s extended remarks, in which he also repeatedly took credit for the raid and the defeat of ISIS, struck him as “a bit disquieting."(POLITICO)

Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you. No, you can't. Yes, I can. No, you can't. Yes, I can. YES, I can! o, you can't. Yes, I can, Yes, I can! (Anything You Can Do/’Annie get Your Gun’/Irving Berlin)

A coincidence…a third dimension where time and space meld into reality…a really brilliant military move performed after tireless hours of debate and discussion…a joint effort by the Congress and the Executive branch banding together to provide security and safety for the American people.  BULL SHIT…Of course, we should be delighted that the life of a murderer, a terrorist, a con man for Mohammed, and enemy of morals and values is dead…but let’s be real America…Trump needs to deflect, to deter, to deny…to provide this nation with one more old-time magical act done with smoke and mirrors. IMPEACHMENT, the sooner the better, the sooner the saner, the sooner the safer, the sooner. Least we all die a horrible death as democracy is destroyed, but a man without a soul! 

another pleasant valley

“The local rock group down the street Is trying hard to learn their song They serenade the weekend squire Who just came out to mow his lawn Another pleasant valley Sunday Charcoal burning everywhere Rows of houses that are all the same And no one seems to care…”(Pleasant Valley Sunday-Gerry Goffin)

Another day and the GOP is still arguing that democracy is not fair to Trump. Trump is still using 5-year-old language to try and insult his imagined enemies; McConnell has withheld any laws to keep our elections safe from Russian or foreign interference. Trump has pimped out our American Troops as mercenaries for Saudi Arabia, as well as has permitted the murderous Royal Family to manufacture nuclear weapons. (anyone remember 9-11)(But Sheldon Adelson is happy cause the Saudi’s made no noise, yet, about moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.) The same GOP hypocrites who held closed seasons on Benghazi, emails, anyone Hillary are acting up for election PR pretending the Democrats are being unfair (In actuality the GOP is angry because the Dems are following the law, but more so acting just the like Republicans, by being stubborn.)

“…Another pleasant valley Sunday Charcoal burning everywhere Another pleasant valley Sunday Here in Status Symbol Land
Another pleasant valley Sunday(A pleasant valley Sunday) Another pleasant valley Sunday(A pleasant valley Sunday.”(Pleasant Valley Sunday-Gerry Goffin)

Another day and Rudy is ruminating or ranting, repeating old lies, declaring he never lied, and then rolling out newer lies, those from which Trump has decided to have just enough snake oil to keep his minions happy. William Barr is about to prosecute his own law enforcement agencies for enforcing the law, and Betsy DeVos, Wilbur Ross, Rick Perry, cabinet members continue to give the law their middle fingers as if they like Trump are ABOVE anything written the Constitution. Pollsters still believe that somehow polling still counts, Talking Heads/Talking Head Lawyers/Talking Head ex Public Servants, and just Heads without bodies still talking is certain this time Trump is going down, but nope, nada, he ain’t going anywhere. Prince and Princess Kushner will be holding their anniversary party at Camp David, and taxpayer payer will wish them a Mazol Tov, via our tax dollars. AND oh yeah, the deficient is in the trillions, due to the wealthy people, those Corporations deemed people by a very activist majority Republican Supreme Court NOT paying any taxes, or paying the most minimum ever…but it is the cost of health and welfare used as the scapegoat for the rise in the stupidity of Trump THE BUSINESSMAN/and his Oligarchs, freshly rich from Russian bribes. It IS just another day, and it has been another day, and damn it to Hell, it seems like it will be just another day, again tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow…

now and then

“What serious finder of fact can you name that identifies information in five-minute increments and does it on television and flips from one side to the other?” Gowdy asked the Fox News hosts. “Grand jury doesn’t do it. Your local sheriff doesn’t do it. The United States attorney doesn’t do it.” “I was an utter, unmitigated failure,” Gowdy said. “Which is why in the one investigation I ran, we interviewed 103 people. One hundred and two of them were done behind closed doors. Only one was done publicly, and that didn’t go very well.”

A group of Republican lawmakers loyal to President Trump stormed an impeachment inquiry congressional session Wednesday, forcing it to a standstill for much of the day. Democrats said the disruption indicated that the GOP is “desperate” after Tuesday’s testimony shed critical new light on the president’s actions toward Ukraine.

I don’t care which Talking Head, from whichever supposed news station you watch, I don’t care which poll you pretend is reasonable as related by some kind of Pollster/News Analyst, I don’t care if you were a Bernie or Bust/ a Jill Stein is Cool/I JUST Hate Hillary/My Vote Would have Never Counted/I Am Making America Great By Voting for the Most Anti-American Candidate Ever…I could give a shit right now…because as I write this…our nation, your nation, this nation is on the brink… NO has fallen off the brink and is in a DEEP DIVE of destroying democracy BECAUSE… Putin owns Trump/Trump owns McConnell/ McConnell owns the GOP, and a bunch of Evangelical bullshiters owes a lot of money on their loans and mortgages, not to God but to Capitalists who own America and want this nation to destroy FREEDOM/EQUALITY/JUSTICE…

Trump remains Commander-In-Chief, and we all will die a death from this, sorry, but it won’t be slow! 

REVOLUTION

As Rachel Maddow often says, “watch this space…” As an American, I am too tired to watch this space or any other space…On October 23, 2019, two days past my birthday, my 70^th year on Earth, I listened as I often do, to the mad cow communication fall from the mouth of a man who, without his father’s money, the motivation of the media, the sheer gluttony that Capitalism gone wrong can conjure up, the realization that reality TV has nothing to do with reality, and a growing sentiment in this nation that to hate is powerful and to incite FEAR an extra spice tossed into a witch’s cauldron, I heard both the Commander-In-Chief and a group of Tea Bagging, Oligarch Republicans admit that to lie is a perk of the presidency, and the ability to create any crime, an honored and cherished piece of the Constitution! And today, this day of October 23, 2019, I will no longer, as a citizen and human of the United States, tolerate the tyranny and treason, the bullying and blackmail, the corrosive decomposing of Democracy…and I will OPENLY URGE this nation and those who care about the here and now and the next generation of our families…TO REVOLT! No longer RESIST, because that has gotten us nowhere at all, but to plan a REVOLUTION against a Russian Asset, his Crime Family and Crime Cabinet, his felonious family members, and the co-conspirators known as the Grand Old Party! 

Trump’s cult of anarchists has stated that the President of the United States of America can, willfully, intentionally, commit any crime, even the murder of another American, and not be held accountable. I could mutter WTF a million times, but it only resonates with deaf ears. The Colonies evoked a REVOLUTION against a King regarding taxation without representation. I am beyond my level of understanding, or respect for anyone sitting in the White House, who uses the Constitution as toilet paper, and who is enabled by a group of politicians and VERY BIGOTED and STUPID  people to let this nation’s DEMOCRACY die, and along with-it FREEDOM, EQUALITY, HONOR, TRUTH AND RESPECT.

When does this newest REVOLUTION begin, and I am willing to risk my life so this nation is rid of Putin’s Puppet…Trump! 

Dead Zone

Nearly throwing up, deciding whether to watch or just run outside and scream, compelled to listen as best I could, placing my fingers in front of my eyes as I used to do when watching the scariest part of the movie, the scene where the monster appears; there was Trump, all giddy, oh gosh almighty look at me…look at what accomplishments I have told myself I just completed…and love me America, the way I love myself, and sort of, kind of the way I really love my little Princess Ivanka!

Standing behind him were Huey, Lewy and Dewey, Christian Crusaders, but this time fighting for the forces of Evil, all huffed and puffed, pretending that America did NOT only FUCK over the Kurds, the Troops Fighting with the Kurds, all of the Troops who had risked their lives fighting ISIS, but also any single cell of positive reputation as a nation of morals, values and trust. There was Trump one hand holding a check, worth some amazing amount of bribery from Turkey, and the other hand chained to the rotten and ruinous, treason and tyranny of Putin. In the tiny brain of Trump, he lives large, and today has assured himself that war in the Middle East has ended, and only he Trump The Great, made everything better, no, not only better but best, no not only best but perfect, as in the letters he has written to other world leaders when he demands Quid Pro Quo!

Pompeo, and Pence, Little Lindsey and a litany of losers of Republican Oligarchs, puppets, shadow figures, spineless and soulless sheep, all standing by to kiss the Royal Ass of a mad man, lacking empathy but immersed in ego, devoid of decency but rotting in deceit and danger, powerful enough to ensure the world in which we live becomes a Dead Zone, an environment more horrible than place even Stephen King might imagine.

I understand the caution and care, the foolproof defense, the Dems are attempting, but each day Trump retains the title Commander-In-Chief, and each day we the people try to play by the rules, as he Trump, breaks them one at a time…all I sense is doom, dread, and the defeat of democracy!

commentary

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” (Aesop-Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.)

“Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots” (H.L. Mencken-Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.)

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them” (George Orwell-Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterized by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.)

Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives has the power to impeach a government official, in effect serving as prosecutor. The Senate has the sole power to conduct impeachment trials, essentially serving as jury and judge. Since 1789 the Senate has tried 19 federal officials, including two presidents. (The US Senate)

Senator Mitt (Mittens) Romney, speaking in an interview, and I am summarizing his message, said, “Yes, indeed, Trump has no morals or values, and yes indeed, Trump defamed and defrauded the office of the Executive, but honestly, how can someone of the same Party be too vocal about all of the crimes, and AFTERALL: nobody from the GOP, wants to be primaried by someone even further right on the political spectrum. Senator Lindsey (Lite in the Loafers) Graham, once vocal critic about Clinton for having sex with Monica, and lying, made it clear during his days in the House that a president who lies is not fit for the job. Little Hissy Fit Lindsey has no problem with the entire Russia hacking of the 2016 election and those lies, but for at least a week discovered the lockbox where Trump and Putin have kept his BALLS and began to clamor and stammer about Quid Pro Qu regarding Ukraine and the entire Syria debacle.  To paraphrase, Ms. Graham’s comments, Trump will have to go through me if he thinks we are just going to let ISIS come back in power and if Trump believes he can make a personal deal in defending Ukraine. Now Ms. Graham has softened her approach to matter of life and death, war and peace, and as usual, did a double axel reversal and kinda’, sorta’, thinks Trump self-serving and Putin serving actions make sense…at least more sense than videos of Lindsey out on a few dates! And last but not the least, or lesser Mitch (#Moscow Mitch) McConnell, has moved his neck far enough from his turtle shell, to complain that all the Dems want to do is punish Trump because the Russians hacked our elections, all the Dems want to do is whine, because the Republicans have ignored subpoenas, and complain that bribes from foreign governments are a bad thing. By God, the audacity, for Comrade Mitch, how else could he and his wife #Beijing Elaine Chao McConnell get their millions and send them to offshore shell accounts. 

What is happening to our country, and why? Perhaps the answer is something one might find on the TV Show Golden Girls: Sophia Pertillo asks her daughter Dorothy Zbornak, “Where are you going?” Dorothy responds, “Either to get ice cream or commit a felony. I’ll decide when I am in the car.” 

7 Decades

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its morals and its beauties. (Arthur Schopenhauer-German Philosopher)

Seven decades, of unconditional love, love lost, love found…time to discover myself and truly make certain my closet of doubt and dubious dreaded demons was cleaned out and not only shut but burned to the ground. Seven decades, where growing up things were black or white, not just the citizens of this great nation, but the consideration of purpose, IKE, built the freeway systems, so we would understand east from west, north from south…the education system in Pittsburgh, was intent on letting the smart kids know they were better and identified them as the 1’s, followed by the less smart kids, known as the 2’s and of course the dumb kids known as 3’s…Seven decades, from which the media informed us that it was better to be dead than red, love America or leave it, this is your brain on drugs…the suburbs were really segregated sanctuaries keeping the blacks, the Jews and the Catholics away. Seven decades in which the youngest man ever to serve as president inspired hope, but was shot, a Reverend who had a dream had his personal dream taken from him, and the army shot American students at an American university. 

Seven decades of hope, of honor, of promise and of purpose…family, children, friends, inspiring others, being inspired…understanding the meaning of empathy and sympathy, not by reading about them in the dictionary but by living their values in real-time. Seven decades of finding that what others might think of you, oftentimes is not about you at all, but about how they see themselves…learning to accept that hypocrisy is never hypothetical, that doublespeak, is a language insecure people babble about, that truth can be constrained but like a perennial plant under the mirk and mud of winter storms, frost and snow, blooms and blossoms and its fragrance smothers the slime and smut, the smog and sinister odor of lies and fiction.

Seven decades…I remember so many I have loved, and lost, so many I learned to call friends and some who were nothing but enemies, shadow figures…Seven decades, and here I am to continue telling my version of MY story, My way… “It was nature that created this body, it was nurture which molded this soul, it was nothing less than a miracle and nothing more than a mere moment in time, but all along it was and is my life.”-Gerry Buncher American, /wannabe published author…but, a loved husband, father, brother, uncle, and friend. Thanks to everyone who has wished me well and has been a positive part of my life!

L S D

“Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone…”(Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds/Lennon & McCartney)

It was 1967, I had graduated high school, my last summer of being a school kid, and what I supposed would be my first summer of adulthood or at least freedom-hood. I first had to face the Draft Lottery, wondering if I might NOT at all enjoy the offerings of the next four years of college life, and fight in a war, in which most Americans had been manipulated into thinking would Keep America Great. Some friends of mine ignored the Draft Lottery and enlisted immediately, other friends decided that Canada was safer…I waited until I knew my number, and for three months was on the “might be drafted list, to this day I remember that my Draft Lottery Number was 248, exactly in the middle. Perhaps I was of the Hippie Generation, the child of the Baby Boomer era, but except for my bell-bottom jeans, occasional tie-dyed T-shirts, and army camouflage fatigues, (amazing, we who protested the war would wear this kind of costume as protest/all the while the boys who went to fight had no choice.) I was mainly a middle-class Jewish kid, beginning to watch the world around me crumble, beginning to witness true xenophobia (I didn’t even know that word yet), and beginning to realize that FEAR, if left to its own devices TRIUMPHS over fact, becoming fictions favorite toy, and demands total attention. Of course, I tried smoking marijuana, back in the day we called it “grass,” which I am informed by both my kids and my much younger husband is such a queer word. (Queer as in its original term meaning strange and weird, and not the derogatory meaning most homophobes love to shout and scream when it comes to homosexuals.) Thinking that a little escape from reality would help. But I was and am such a control freak would I never let the joys of being high, remain joyful for too long.

Then there was this song, this magical melody, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. When the song came out EVERYONE in the KNOW, swore it was the Beatles poking their fingers at the “MAN” (back in the day, the MAN, was the government), and singing a song about LSD. (Lennon repeatedly denied that he had intended it as a drug song, although he got the inspiration from an LSD trip. He attributed the song's fantastical imagery to his reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland books.) It seems to me that the past three years have been a long drop down a rabbit hole, a long bout of bad drugs, a totally psychedelic trip, in which good has become bad, right is always wrong, and God is used to now to the deadly Devil. I will soon begin my seventh decade on Earth and have at the ripe old age of almost 70 witnessed the wonders of life but am bewildered at the abolishment of morals and values, truth and honor. I played Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, and for a moment kind of wish, I had some mystical power to just wish away and erase anything, anyone Trump, and enjoy a true high that life can provide!

O-Boy

ob·tuse: annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.

ob·sti·nate: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.

ob·vi·ous: easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent.

ob·liv·i·ous: not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one.

ob·struc·tion: a thing that impedes or prevents passage or progress; an obstacle or blockage.

ob·nox·ious: extremely unpleasant.

It is all a game, the politics of America. Anyone with an average IQ, understands that in most situations (not only in this country), it is hardly the best, brightest, boldest, who becomes a leader, but oftentimes the most beholden, belligerent, and blackmailed, who decides the fate of millions via a bribe or a bauble and of course all the bling, that bull shit can buy!

Mick Mulvaney spoke a truth (something his body usually forbids,) but perhaps there is conscience inside his empty façade, that needed a little space, let’s just say he burped out the truth. But did you notice, of course you did, that the response from most of the GOP leadership was not to apologize for the gross mishandling of quid pro quo, but the anger that Mulvaney provided a wee bit of truth! And then we have the comments by Trump about schoolyard fights, and lots of sand from which one can play and make their own kingdoms, which as we all know, can get washed away with the power of a mightier force, like the wind or a rogue wave. And not last nor least, Trump all pumped and eager to pump money into his own personal account is expecting, with no blowback, that the G7 spend oodles and oodles of money to turn once again one of oh so NOT business adventures from the red to the black. 

Then you have the faux cries of not on my watch from such inadequate ingénues, as hissy Lindsey ready to stop Trump from permitting Putin to become the new King of Persia; but then Trump reminded Little Lite in the Loafers, Lindsey, you really are just my employee, so STFU! Senator Ron Johnson straight from the Bolshoi Ballet is now insisting that since his trip to Moscow, there has been and is currently no colluding or interference by Russia into our elections. Bullshit Ronnie, eeked out a win in the 2016 election due to Wisconsin being hacked, and even though he is a multi-millionaire, the dirty laundered money he received from a few of the Oligarchs is being laundered in some offshore account. And never forget that Oligarch #Moscow Mitch, and his wife #Beijing Chao are keeping the lid off of any discovery in truth just how many bribes have blossomed, and how both are receiving welcomed Communist nation checks. And all the while, as if fools set free in a funhouse of mirrors, the Democrat characters running for President, fight with each other, not understanding that unity against Trump is almost the true pathway to the office of President. And because history, in this nation does and will and is permitted to repeat itself, it has been brought to our attention that perhaps, Putin has found himself another Jill Stein, in the form of one Representative Tulsi Gabbard. It seems Ms. Gabbard has been enjoying the company of Putin and Co., you sort of like Jill Stein (but who should worry about that…you know conspiracy theories never come true…remember 2016!)  Hard for me to watch how obvious and oblivious, how obtuse and obstinate this nation has become with the obstruction of decency let alone democracy by the OBNOXIOUS Trump and his Mafia  Family, Cabinet, Lobbyists, Pay to Pray Evangelicals and the normally, but not any more, fringe bigots. And we watch and watch and wait… 

everything Zombie

I love everything Zombie, from the early days of watching ‘Chiller Theater’ back in the ’50s and 60’s to standing in line to be an extra for George Romeo’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’ to the first three episodes of ‘Walking Dead,’ (Walking Dead became like watching the dead  move so I stopped…do not hate me!) I have even spent lazy afternoons watching B and C rated movies  whose characters were all Zombies, so I am a dedicated fan of that genre! (I love using the word genre, it sound like a category from Jeopardy!) And there is one rule any true Zombie Fan understands, a rule, oh so many directors or writers of the Zombie Genre break, and they break it because they somehow want to impose an empathy for the living dead…when a loved one is infected NEVER say “I will stay here with them, OR never cause a hissy fit and either insist that you lock them in a room, or that somehow if you handcuff them, they can travel with you…WE ALL know how that sentimental action ends!  Once bitten, no longer human, end of the story and end of love lost, hoping to be found.  But the most interesting thing for me, regarding Zombie movies, is JUST how human and inhumane the undead behave. Zombie movies, of course, are thrills and chills regarding the dead who won't stay dead but watch closely and notice how easily the undead become more like the monsters they wish to destroy.

Donald Trump is a Zombie, whether he received the infection from kissing Putin’s ass, or just the disregard and disinterest and lack of nurturing he received from his parents, does no matter, but this man IS A ZOMBIE. And this monster has infected all of his Cabinet, his entire family, except for maybe Tiffany who is truly a wish I had had an abortion child, and Barron, who God only knows is still surviving and not becoming mentally ill from his father’s actions. He has infected the key leadership of the GOP, and has been able t infect most Republican politicians, and of course, the man and woman who sincerely worship the Devil!

Mick Mulvaney, a stupid as you get Trump Ass Licker, spoke with great honesty (something no one in Trump Zombie Land ever has done before,) and is now being served to all the Trump Zombies as a feast. Zombies are hard to kill, and we all know how lethal and stealth they can be, even though they really are dead. America is watching, a scene which could be from the book World War Z, by Max Brooks, a planet infested with the plague, a planet full of the dead, who only want to eat the flesh of the living…a planet where men like Putin, Trump, Jung-Un, Assad, Bin Salman Al Saud, Erdogan, Barr, Hannity, McConnell, rule and watch as the flesh is torn and tattered from anyone but them!

the one you're with

If you're down and confused And you don't remember who you're talkin' to Concentration slip away
Cause your baby is so far away. Well, there's a rose in a fisted glove And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with (‘Love the One You’re With/Stephen Stills)

The Kurds are being slaughtered, our allies for whom all Americans should be grateful. The Kurds had given their lives to fight a bitter battle and at least diminish the amount of death and devastation that ISIS promoted promulgated and promised to never stop until they created their Caliphate. Our Troops, men and women of America, fighting side by side, with the Kurds, entrusting the safety of their own lives, acting in a brotherhood, a human hood of a collective to defeat one of the most dangerous mad population of religious zealots, some still left in the middle of a murderous machination, by Trump to serve the financial needs and procure favor with Putin, being rescued while THEIR allies are left to die.

A rally in Dallas Texas, led by an empty insane, man, his dementia detrimental not only to our democracy but to any decency left on the shores of this nation, is greeted with hoots and hollers, lock ‘em up, applause as if Trump is the savior, all the while to use a Revolutionary term “turncoat” not only to the America, but to any human who once trusted America! Athletes take a knee and they are called traitors. Trump kowtows to Turkey, Russia, Syria, turning his back on morals and values, the essence of assisting those in the world for whom a dystopian destiny looms, and the MAGA maniacs (YES, MANIACS, SO GET PISSED IF YOU WISH, BUT ANY SUPPORT FOR THIS CON ARTIST, TREASONOUS, GRIFTER MAKES YOU A MANIAC.) The GOP, the Evangelicals, the 1%, and the self-loathing, self-hating KKK, the South shall rise again, the Nazi’s, both good and bad, and now the newest class of Republicans the Oligarchs want those who take a knee to be burned at the stake, while a Russian Asset, a Spy, and a treasonous tyrannical madman fuck America and is applauded. A rally in Dallas and Trump describes this as a schoolyard battle. AND TRUMP IS STILL COMMANDER IN  CHIEF)

If you find yourself, not interested, overwhelmed and too confused to make a decision, still promising that if your candidate doesn’t get the Dem nomination you will not vote…If you find yourself at a MAGA rally, insisting that it was the emails or the Kenyan as President that bothers you…If you remain SILENT, remain aloof…If you find yourself thinking that the economy (inherited by Obama), is good enough for you to vote Trump…if you find yourself in any of the above categories…soon you will find yourself, joining the brown-colored kids still locked up in Concentration Camps…  and as Stephen Stills wrote, “And if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with…” YOU will be loving the anal opening of a man who when he gives a shit, loves to spread his poison all over anyone and everyone, including you!

Elijah Cummings

“My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.” “Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.” “Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.” ----Elijah Cummings (1951-2019)

To be honest, and sadly so, I did not know, this nation was lucky enough to enjoy the energy and involvement of Elijah Cummings! We both were living during the rocky decades of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, but he a man of color dealing with issues of racial hate, and me a white man living in the womb of a Jewish neighborhood, nurtured until my graduation from high school, were following different paths…not realizing our trajectory would indeed find us parallel in demanding freedom, equality and an expectation that America belonged to no ONE exact group, but should have could have and would have been a nation for all.  

I marched against the conflict in Viet Nam (it was never considered a war…as was the situation in Korea), I fought against anti-Semitism, finally realizing that outside of my Jewish community, people hated me, The Juden! And secretly, perhaps for me the most insidious and emotional conflict one of my own identity, of being a Gay man, I fought for my piece of the Great American Pie. As I involved myself with the relevant matters of my survival, Representative Cummings, battled the bigots, the biased, and the bogus who decided that African Americans, were not equal to the “WHITE RACE,” and that slavery was an intentional action by a God, which, for some actually had written in a Bible stating the Black race was inferior and created to be slaves for the Caucasian! We all have the desire for hero’s, some emerge on the scene in a large way, others are quiet, but consistent, and continue to create change, face the consequences of change, but charge ahead, no matter the physical or emotional pain and punishment.

It wasn’t until a Russian Asset, an Ass Hat, a terrible person of poison and treason emerged, that I truly began to know and respect and appreciate Representative Elijah Cummings. I watched a tireless, true Patriot fight for the demands Democracy asks of Americans and witnessed a man who had fought the battles of being the OTHER, that my respect grew for Rep. Cummings, and I knew somewhere on Capitol Hill, I had an ally! My condolences to Elijah Cummings’ family and friends…his death, however, WILL NOT end the battle ALL Americans have to keep life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, under the guise of democracy ALIVE!  

Elijah Cummings

“My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.” “Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.” “Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.” ----Elijah Cummings (1951-2019)

To be honest, and sadly so, I did not know, this nation was lucky enough to enjoy the energy and involvement of Elijah Cummings! We both were living during the rocky decades of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, but he a man of color dealing with issues of racial hate, and me a white man living in the womb of a Jewish neighborhood, nurtured until my graduation from high school, were following different paths…not realizing our trajectory would indeed find us parallel in demanding freedom, equality and an expectation that America belonged to no ONE exact group, but should have could have and would have been a nation for all.  

I marched against the conflict in Viet Nam (it was never considered a war…as was the situation in Korea), I fought against anti-Semitism, finally realizing that outside of my Jewish community, people hated me, The Juden! And secretly, perhaps for me the most insidious and emotional conflict one of my own identity, of being a Gay man, I fought for my piece of the Great American Pie. As I involved myself with the relevant matters of my survival, Representative Cummings, battled the bigots, the biased, and the bogus who decided that African Americans, were not equal to the “WHITE RACE,” and that slavery was an intentional action by a God, which, for some actually had written in a Bible stating the Black race was inferior and created to be slaves for the Caucasian! We all have the desire for hero’s, some emerge on the scene in a large way, others are quiet, but consistent, and continue to create change, face the consequences of change, but charge ahead, no matter the physical or emotional pain and punishment.

It wasn’t until a Russian Asset, an Ass Hat, a terrible person of poison and treason emerged, that I truly began to know and respect and appreciate Representative Elijah Cummings. I watched a tireless, true Patriot fight for the demands Democracy asks of Americans and witnessed a man who had fought the battles of being the OTHER, that my respect grew for Rep. Cummings, and I knew somewhere on Capitol Hill, I had an ally! My condolences to Elijah Cummings’ family and friends…his death, however, WILL NOT end the battle ALL Americans have to keep life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, under the guise of democracy ALIVE!  

a hole in a head

“I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in And stops my mind from wandering Where it will go I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door And kept my mind from wandering Where it will go And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right Where I belong I'm right Where I belong.”(‘Fixing a Hole’/Lennon McCarthy)

"All American soldiers are away from the site. Syria and Turkey can fight... They’ve got a lot of sand over there... There’s a lot of sand that they can play with,” Mr. Trump said in the White House. "The Kurds are much safer right now, but the Kurds know how to fight," he said, suggesting that the Kurds were better at fighting when allied with the United States than when they were not. "They fought with us. We paid a lot of money to fight with them but that's ok."(Donald Trump/Commander-In-Chief/October 16, 2019)

Right in front of the American people, a comment about sand, one which perhaps an immature two-year-old Toddler might have with another immature two-year-old Toddler, was spoken, by a man who second by second has been witnessed to fall deeper and deeper into the deadly dive of DEMENTIA! The Democrats are accused of planning a coup by discussing IMPEACHMENT, the Republicans seem to be okay with the coup created by Vladimir Putin, not concerned with the welfare of this nation, but sure as hell hoping every judge nominated is of the belief that the Bible trumps the Constitution, and that the divide between church and state, comes down as the wall between the USA and Mexico goes up. And”…We The People…sit idly by thinking that the radiation from the Third World War has not fallen upon our democracy!

Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment allows the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to recommend the removal of the president in cases where he is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” and allows the House and Senate to confirm the recommendation over the president’s objection by a two-thirds vote. I know, I know, we have a criminal in the VP’s office, and if not the entire Trump Cabinet has either been subpoenaed or involved with criminal activity…but there is a hole in the head of Trump, not only has the rain come in, but the five fingers of Putin’s hand are moving the lips and tongue of Trump, and no one is safe!

Forgetfulness

“We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón “We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, “Confusion: the bastard half-brother of chaos. Chaos: the torture instrument of forgetting.” Preti Taneja

They did it again, refused to adhere to any rules of law, the laws established by the Constitution, and replaced the laws with lies. Convenient, when in fact, the facts are too burdensome, so just pretend fiction is the truth, and have anyone gullible, or giddy enough agree, forgetting is the favored fortune of the future. So, Trump and his gang of goons, sworn to protect Trump, and now it seems their own lying lives, instead of America, act as criminals complaining to the crowd of mindless minions, that the real criminals are those seeking to remember, and purposely provide those remembrances for public discourse, and public knowledge! And the more the intentional forgetfulness lingers, the longer, memories of the past meld into a void, which is so cluttered with noise and that it begins to feel nonsensical and a numbness encroaches and today’s lies form into the rot and ruin, mold and mildew of a space piled with junk!

Kids remain in Concentration Camps, Families are still separated, some parents in one country, and the rest of their family hidden from sight in another land. The real reason Trump won the 2016 election is no longer news but an assumption and the rotten players then have returned and the barrel of votes ripening for the 2020 election is becoming infected with the same poison, prepared by Putin! Women are still an issue with the Evangelical American Taliban, whose male leadership feeling omnipotent is actually impotent; and along with the female gender, are intimidated with the freedom the homosexual community desire to love whomever they wish. Liars, lying under oath, as if placing a hand on a Bible means nothing more than sharing your DNA on a perceived Holy Book, remain in positions of power from the Supreme Court to the various Cabinet members, to the folks who once protected the security of this nation, only to transform into a personal army for Trump. 

They did it again, the remaining so-called Top Tier of men and women running for the office of President from the Democrat Party, forgetting that no paper ballots, means no true voter tally. They debate the inefficient methods Trump chooses to fight a war, or walk away from a war, or to whom he owes allegiance, for whom he only desires death and doom, forgetting in their scurry and hurry to score a point or two, our Troops are in the crosshairs of enemies deadly weaponry. Guns kill, mass shootings continue, school kids now learn reading writing and how to hide from assault weapons, but not much is done to fix the issues of murder and mayhem used by a very UN-REGULATED MILITIA!  They did it again, spoke about the economy, affordable medical care, social security, and environment…but have expressed any resolve to remove a tyrant who IS still the Commander-In-Chief. “…We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves…”/ Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and the more we permit this the less chance we have for change and are left with only consequence!

Madness

“Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland “And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass.

Tweets, tantrums, but never the truth! Trump begins, and ends his days defending the dimmest of hope, hoping the dimwit will deny and defer Trump’s own destruction of democracy, declaring the rest of the world as the mechanics of madness, all the while IT IS the machinations of Trump which are the mold and mildew, the real poison potion planned and plotted by Putin.

We have turned our allies into enemies, regarding the Kurds! We have ensnared our Soldiers into a web of just trying to survive, as forces of evil, bent on total devastation of the innocent in Syria, circle their wagons on American Troops, with no real Patriotic plan to save them. And the newest gimmick in Trump’s War against America, is to try and secure our nuclear arsenal in Turkey, the ammunition aimed at the Russians, which now might easily be captured by the enemy and used to ensure a very uncertain future, even for the children of men and women like Pompeo, Pence, Mother Pence, The Prince and Princess Kushner, William Barr, Rudy and Chairman Trump! 

Trump remains Commander-In-Chief. He is abled by the arrogant GOP, pretending that Patriotism is nothing more than securing their own political jobs and turning this nation in a potpourri of Theocracy/Authoritarianism/ Fascism/ and a Plutocracy. Pick one, choose all, any answer is incorrect, when in fact there is still a dim desire for Democracy, albeit, the prognosis for all of us who care about fair and equal, good and bad, laws and truth is a sad, sad, mad, mad scenario. Perhaps Lewis Carroll was a man who saw the future, but wished it only to be a tale told to remind us that what we see, we just might get! 

broken hearted

“… As I walk this land with broken dreams I have visions of many things But happiness is just an illusion
Filled with sadness and confusion What becomes of the broken-hearted Who had love that's now departed?
I know I've got to find Some kind of peace of mind Maybe…”(What’s Become of the Broken Hearted/Jimmy Ruffin)

The Oath Keepers, a well-armed Militia of American Christian men, who believe that the rib of Adam, named Eve, meant that all women were intended to be and should continue to be subservient chattel for the pleasure and whims of God’s truest creation the male gender. This group of Confederate State supporters, who have never admitted that the North won the Civil War and that in fact, Jesus himself intended that America become an all Caucasian and Christian Empire, are gearing up to not only protect a Russian Agent, sitting in the Whiter House, but some pretend that being a real Patriot is defined by waving the Confederate Flag, and quoting Adolph Hitler. The spineless GOP politicians whose only desire is to not be QUOTE: PRIMARIED out of office, court these treasonous, traitors, hoping that by acting against all the good of the US Constitution allows, such as freedoms, equality, the divide of church and state and one person one vote…they, the GOP can remain to govern a nation which in due time will have no use for any elected officials, and will become a government of an Authoritarian Despot. All of the dirty tricks, all of the hypocrisy, all of the dirty dingy work done on behalf of Trump a Russian Asset and Stooge for Putin, will be for nothing because these Republicans will become the brokenhearted, and useless vestiges once democracy dies.

William Barr/Mike Pompeo/Kevin McCarthy/Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the best of the worst of the GOP leadership, all on the receiving end of Oligarch money, the threatening end of Russian blackmail, the cushy benefits from corporations, lobbyists and Evangelicals, pounding on their chests echoing phrases, and paragraphs of hypocritical hyperbole, and well prepared propaganda, in support of one of the major backstabbing, self-serving psychotic narcissists…actually believe (because so far no law has stopped Trump, so far no act of bigotry or racism, so far every act of theft, graft, and con has been successful) pretend that that the world of trump, a Twilight Zone, if you will, is just one minor bump leading to a horizon minus morals, values, but full of fictitious Christian style Sharia Law, and financial rewards, leading to a great divide of Royalty and Peasantry. The nation will be divided between, The Haves, who have stolen and committed treason and tyranny and the Have Nots, who, by watching FOX News, Pretending that Jesus hates anyone who is not exactly like them, and Lack the education Lust for facts. It will be similar to the Rapture, but the poor souls, in this case, the MAGA minions, will not be in Heaven but shall remain in a Hellish life on Earth. They will be the brokenhearted and will wonder what is to become of them. 

IMPEACHMENT is not muttered aloud, but Trump is also allowed to remain in defiance of each and every law, moral or ethical question, and to betray his fellow Americans,  his Military Troops and Allies of this nation. I still walk this land, as Jimmy Ruffin once sang about in a tuneful song full of soul, with broken dreams, having had visions of many things, which have turned into nightmares!