i can't take more

`Take some more tea,' the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. `I've had nothing yet,' Alice replied in an offended tone, `so I can't take more. ' `You mean you can't take LESS,' said the Hatter: `it's very easy to take MORE than nothing.(Lewis Carroll)

Now we see the Trump administration preparing to blame teachers for partial or full school closures this fall. Trump’s claim that “the moms want it, the dads want it, the kids want it” was notable for who didn’t make the list: educators. (THINK)

Senator Cotton told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: "We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise, we can't understand our country. "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as [Abraham] Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction." (BBC News)

The discord caused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to postpone the scheduling unveiling of the relief proposal from Thursday to Monday as the White House and Republicans continued to mull over the options. This delay, coupled with the reality that any proposal put forth by Republicans will then need to be ironed out with Democrats, led McConnell to suggest it could be several weeks before an agreement is reached, according to The Washington Post. “Hopefully we can come together behind some package we can agree on in the next few weeks,” McConnell was quoted as saying today while at an event in Kentucky. (Forbes)

It is Monday, July 27, 2020, and we now have three new victims from which to scapegoat and remind the world are the true villains for the way we were and the way we are. Teachers are bad because their lives matter not and would like to live another day, avoiding direct contact with COVID. Those who find slavery appalling and inhuman, are truly the real treasonists of America because they never understood the value of using slaves as chattel and capital gain. And now, once again it the average American workers who want to commit fraud against the government, because they are unemployed and just want some small pittance to pick one bill to pay, food, housing, or medical. We have three Republican politicians so out of whack with the real world/Trump/Cotton/McConnell, each living a life of ease and never needing to want for anything, explaining the way of a world which is exploding all around everyone but them. 

“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you ca’n’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” (Lewis Carroll)

starting a joke

I started a joke which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see that the joke was on me oh no
I started to cry which started the whole world laughing
Oh If I'd only seen that the joke was on me (I Started a Joke/Bee Gees)

Betsy DeVos is still seeking payback from students who registered at for-profit sham universities, and still defying the court's order to have these students, reimbursed their tuition, all the while continuing to demand loan payments from people out of work and unemployed. Kristjan Nielsen, one of the original thugs living in the Swamp Trump Cabinet, is back in the news pretending no concentration camps were ever established while under her sadistic tenure as DHS and feels that a judge’s order to remove these kidnapped and captive children due to the CORONAVIRUS is just a political overreaction. This week the Relief package of $600 Stimulus checks is due to expire before anything new is set to replace it, but Mitch McConnell, is still debating its function and purpose within his GOP caucus…who by the way to the member, is still working, receiving full salaries and benefits 

I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen that the joke was on me (I Started a Joke/Bee Gees)

Call them Karen’s or Ken’s but label them pre-meditated murderers and just identify them as the privileged American, selfish, and entitled to pretend their lives MATTER and no one else. Be they the white folk who suddenly think they are the CIA demanding answers from people of color as to why they even exist, or to the brats and buffoons using only the sad-sack shit FOX News presents as fact, to STILL pretending COVID-19 is a HOAX, and spread their virus of COVID and ignorance wherever and whenever they go out. Ignoring, the lack of freedom for the LGBTQ/reproductive rights, Immigrant and DREAMERS civil rights, the poor or elderly, equitable housing, or medical care, this GROUP are sudden victims because of all things wearing a mask is a defining moment in their perception of HUMANITY and FREEDOM!

I looked at the skies running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said
'Till I finally died which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen that the joke was on me
Oh no that the joke was on me (I Started a Joke/Bee Gees)

And the Erik Prince Mercenaries are now in more than Portland, beating up protestors, kidnapping them and welcomed by the President of the United States. He uses the Rose Garden and Oval Office for political campaigning, fires IG’s and decides to permit his friends, visa vie Executive Privilege out of jail for free, even when juries have found them guilty, and all the while one more law after another is broken and NO ONE WITHIN THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY tries to stop him. 

Each day we say, this has to be enough, then it is not. Each day we have to say this is not normal and then we use the term the new normal. Each day we pretend that all of this might be fixed if only we wait 100 days and vote, you actually think election day will arrive on time, and that it will look or feel anything like democracy in action. Trump started a joke, and who is laughing?

smokey the bear

“Without a vaccine, sir, why do you think the virus is going to be gone?” asked CBS News reporter Ben Tracy. “It’s gonna go,” Trump responded. “It’s gonna leave. It’s gonna be gone. It’s gonna be eradicated. It might take longer, it might be in smaller sections. It won’t be what we had.” He went on, “If you have a flare-up in a certain area—I call them burning embers—boom, we put it out. We know how to put it out now.” (Mother Jones

You have to weigh the community costs, one lawyer said. Opening schools mean sick and dead children and delaying opening means inconvenience. A number of Florida lawyers are offering free or discounted living wills for teachers who may be required to return to the classroom this school year.

"I had read a story a few weeks ago about three Arizona teachers who'd gone back to school to work on a project," said Charles Gallagher, whose St. Petersburg law firm, Gallagher & Associates, is among those offering teachers free living wills. "All three contracted COVID-19 and one died." One teacher protesting in front of the Hillsborough School District in Tampa carried a sign, “I can’t teach from my grave.” (MSNBC)

1947: Smokey the Bear His slogan changed to "Remember... Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires" in 1947 and was associated with Smokey Bear for more than five decades. Smokey Bear has had a few different official catchphrases over the years, including “Smokey Says–Care Will Prevent 9 out of 10 Forest Fires,” and “Remember … Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires.” The current version, implemented in 2001, is “Only You Can Prevent Wildfires.” Smokey might not say much, but his message is just as—or maybe even more—important today as it was 75 years ago. 

Trump has one message! Re-elect me, it matters not who lives or dies, suffers, or leaves loved ones mourning and concerned. Make the ailing economy seem vibrant and alive, which in turn helps me look like I care or cared, was concerned, and did my best for the lives of the CORPORATIONS/MY 1% DOMESTIC TERRORIST DONORS,  and of course my Crime Family. Re-elect me, because maybe I will end up in jail, and oh yeah if you don’t behave my way, I have more Mercenaries from Erik Prince (oops I mean anonymous Federal Troops to kidnap, harass and maybe even murder you). This IS America 2020!

an ELEPHANT

EL·E·PHANT- a heavy plant-eating mammal with a prehensile trunk, long curved ivory tusks, and large ears, native to Africa and southern Asia. It is the largest living land animal. EL·E·PHAN·TINE of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, especially in being large, clumsy, or awkward. ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. informal. If you say there is an elephant in the room, you mean that there is an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about. Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences. a (heavy) cross to bear idiom.

Trump is still bragging he did not see an elephant, on a sheet of paper, and described the answer to that question as a medium to difficult answer. [I mean, he says, there was no elephant, lots of giraffes, zebras and whatever the fuck other animals his two son’s Dumb as Shit and Dumber as Shit hunt,] but for Trump, his victory was no elephant on a sheet of paper, so Trump IS a COGNITIVE genus. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, especially its leadership knows there is an ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, but like Trump doesn’t see it, because if they admitted to viewing it and interacting with it, then THEIR COGNITIVE, skills would have to be addressed. Their sense of common decency, their sense of humanity, their sense of their constituents and the Constitutional duties they swore an oath to, would have to take priority, and thus most to all would either receive the thumbs down from their Emperor who sees no elephants, or perhaps unexpected disasters might befall they or their families. And worst of all the fraudulent money from the truly Number One Domestic Terrorist of this nation the 1%Donor Class would dry up and the GOP politicians would become nothing but TUMBLEWEED!

COG·NI·TION- the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. a result of this; a perception, sensation, notion, or intuition. Any American who is COGNITIVE of the current events in which we either find ourselves living or just surviving to understand clearly and precisely that ELEPHANTS or not, lots of ELEPHANT DUNG (large mounds of it are smothering all and everything that might keep our democracy, let alone personal freedoms alive. We are cognizant that 4.11 million cases of CORONAVIRUS exist in the US./Trump lacks any cognition of those numbers and pretends like a tide they will rise and fall. 146 thousand unique, loved, Americans have died Trump is not cognizant nor empathetic to that statistic as he mentions not a word on the deaths, only that, the numbers seem to be getting better (He now takes credit for the good foresight of the Northeastern Governors scientific and medical approach to the Pandemic) No cognition that so-called Federal Troops (let's be real America these are Mercenaries, most likely paid to tear gas, harass, kidnap and eventually murder other American citizens…and let's be a little more PERFECTLY clear, if they were actually American Troops, would one brother or sister actually point a loaded weapon of war at a protestor) are invading the streets of Portland. And now we find that there will be no TRUMP REPUBLICAN RALLY in Tallahassee because too many wise old GOP crypt keepers are afraid of their own death’s by attending, too many up for re-election sycophants, fear the backlash of voters, and actual moms;’ and dads, who truly see the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, but won’t admit it out loud, realize how contagious the HOAX LIBERAL KUNG FU FLU really is. But the COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED TRUMP, still insists that schools should open, because for him the key to re-election is the economy and why not make ill a few kids, murder a few teachers to help the economy thrive. An ELEPHANT!

just because

Now, JUST BECAUSE, maybe because he thinks he is President Xi of China, invading Hong Kong, or maybe because his master hater Stephen Miller mesmerized Trump with lavish visions of the blood of Democrats or ex-slaves lying on the streets all bloodied and bruised, or maybe because, he does believe he is already President for Life, like Xi and Putin, or perhaps, his delusional world of JUST HIM IN IT…Trump plans on invading more cities within this nation with his anonymous camouflaged configuration of Troops amassed by the likes of Eric Prince (and his mercenaries), Willie Barr (loving himself some of those Brown Shirt, Storm Troopers,) or just the fact that when talking to himself, the voices in Trump’s head reminded him that Richard Nixon and George Wallace were great hero’s, and damn man be just like them!

Trump deciding that lawlessness IS a thing, (NO NOT HIS LAWLESSNESS----you know like treason, fraud, tax evasion, lying to the courts, defying the Hatch Act, permitting Russian interference in our elections, AND A THING to use against those Lefty Dems who somehow think Free Speech and Protesting is something a nation built on democracy permits; has selected more Democrat-led cities to incite more violence, convincing himself and his MAGA brain dead DEPLORABLES (YEAH, LET’S BRING THAT WORD BACK) that an AUTHROTIRATIAN STYLE DYSTOPIAN Government is the answer to all problems. Let’s get the bad guys who only want justice, equality, and the pursuit of happiness.

It might seem to me, and I am certain of the millions of Americans, neither tethered to FOX News for life support/ providing money for the Pay to Pray American Evangelical Christian Taliban/ the Confederate Nationals who think raising a flag from a county which declared war on the US makes them MORE Patriotic, the Hitler loving Nazi’s who actually, wear all kinds of Nazi paraphernalia, and in doing so give a huge middle finger to the VETS of no matter which war, but especially the Second World War, that IF Trump WAS really, really, REALLY concerned about crime and death and murder, he would send in Troops to help the CDC and NIH, to combat the ignorance, and pre-meditated murder ideals by the Governors of Florida/Texas/ and Georgia. If one were a sane man, (and not a braggart that he passed a test to establish how far gone his illness of dementia has permeated his brain,) Trump would notice more direct death and destruction is happening in those RED STATES, not the lefty blue cities, by Republican leadership who are angry that scientists and medical professionals were and are smarter then they, and that NATURE is not a thing from which you pick a battle. But no, Trump’s cult of Pompeo/Pence/Kushner/Meadows/ McConnell/Miller think inventing fear and loathing is a winning effort for re-election. They are ignoring the real fear, which is ably eating away at this nation, THE CORONAVIRUS, and letting the Virus redirect any effort of Law and Order to take effect.

cost of freedom

“There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down.” (For What It’s Worth/Stephen Stills)

"I'm going to do something — that, I can tell you," Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office. "Because we're not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and Baltimore and all of these — Oakland is a mess. We're not going to let this happen in our country." The power of one federal law enforcement agency to seek assistance from others may give him the flexibility to send hundreds or thousands of agents into several cities at the same time. What's not clear — beyond Trump's perceived political benefit — is why (Jonathan Allen)

“Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid You step out of line; the man come and take you away” (For What It Worth/Stephen Stills)

"What really crossed the line for me was when the feds started picking people off the street," she said. "That is a totalitarian and authoritarian tactic, and I don't want it in my city and I want them gone."(Jonathan Allen) Photographer Mathieu Lewis-Rolland was on scene at Monday night's anti-police brutality protests in Portland when he captured a striking image: a federal officer pointing their weapon directly at him. "Last night was the most horrifying thing I have ever experienced in my life," he said. "I got shot at, gassed more times than I can imagine." The officer, like many currently in the city under orders from the Trump administration, is wearing a camouflage uniform, a helmet, and a gas mask as he stares directly at the camera. (Buzz Feed)

Tank Man is the nickname of an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests by force. A scene in Beijing, being replayed in American cities in America, with the same premise; AUTHORITARIANISM, to defeat DEMOCRACY!

A madman, a sick dangerous, paranoid, mad man; angry that his re-election numbers are failing, because he has failed and within his failure, lashes out at his own people. Men and women, no longer loyal to the US Constitution and the right to free speech, and to gather and protest, whose own agenda and definition of democracy must be questioned, attack peaceful American citizens. Dressed in a disguise of armor of deceit and shadows, as not to be identified as attempting to act as marauders or crusaders, or mercenaries of that madman, this UNKNOWN MILITARY group of bully’s hide and pretend it is law and order they provide but fear more being found out as treasonous traitors to their own brothers and sisters of America.

“Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down.” (Find the Cost of Freedom/Stephen Stills0

history take it or leave it

“Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Sunday, Bloody Sunday (alright)

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart” (Sunday Bloody Sunday/Bono-The Edge)

On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and faced brutal attacks by oncoming state troopers, footage of the violence collectively shocked the nation and galvanized the fight against racial injustice.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio."

"Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago."

"What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?"(Ohio/Crosby-Stills and Nash)

On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close.

“There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind” (For What It’s Worth/Stephen Stills)

On July 13, Trump boasted that his agencies curbed an uprising in Portland that local cops couldn't control. "We've done a great job in Portland," Trump said. "Portland was totally out of control. We very much quelled it, and if it starts again, we'll quell it again very easily. It's not hard to do, if you know what you're doing." "They are sharply escalating the situation," Mayor Ted Wheeler told CNN on Sunday. There have been nightly protests against police brutality in the city since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minnesota in May. "Their presence here is actually leading to more violence and more vandalism. "They're not wanted here. We haven't asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave," he said.

"They're not wanted here. We haven't asked them here. In fact, we want them to leave," he said.

"Fools, " said I, "You do not know
Silence, like a cancer, grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells, of silence.” (Sounds of Silence/Paul Simon

And the longer we do not RESIST/SHOUT/SCREAM/DEMAND/DEFY, this nations Democracy dies. There is history to learn from or history to ignore. Do we remain the FOOLS or the FREEDOM FIGHTERS?