My WALL

He lost the popular vote by at least 3 million votes (at least those were the votes not destroyed or changed by the GOP State legislatures…he was hacked into office by the Russians who in turn have asked for payback via Top Secret material and of course kissing the ring of Putin…the majority of his so-called Cabinet have either swindled the taxpayer, purchasing elaborate gifts, receiving luscious and lucrative bribes from lobbyists or have broken any kind of common law and of course, have perjured themselves…his private company is reaping great profits as he said they would when he ran for the office of President…his children have been nurtured to follow the bad example of their father and have also cheated the American citizen over and over again…he likes good Nazi’s…he hates people of color…he likes advice from his donors at Mar-A-Lago and hates any real information and facts from the Justice Department/FBI/CIA…he knows that not only had the Russians hacked the DNC emails, but the RNC, and along with his coconspirator Comrade McConnell understand fully well that the Republican Party is nothing but a bunch of cogs answering to Trump because if they don’t the ugly truth about their underhanded and illegal activities will come to light…and he is like a Vampire, understanding that to survive NEVER EVER should there be sunlight on all of the crimes committed by him and for him….

And today, Tuesday, December 11, 2018, trump held the Nancy and Chuck show 2.0 and lied his ass off, and culled from some witches brew untruths about asylum seekers and the border, and swore that he will and can shut down the government if he doesn’t get HIS WALL… Nancy Pelosi described Trump's rhetoric as fiction, and Trump himself lives in the Twilight Zone where reality is a thing of the past… AND to soothe his ego and the less than 23% of the bigoted minions, mindless and morons of intelligence…without giving one shit about the lives, livelihood, and future of ALL Americans…Trump today, Tuesday, December 11, 2018, said he will take full responsibility for shutting down the government.

It is kind of like Hitler saying, I will take full responsibility for ruining the lives of anyone but me if I can’t build Concentration Camps, Gas Chambers, and slave workforces… And to top things off not one Republican has found his her backbone or conscience to stand up to Trump and say you are an idiot, a crazy man a fool, and we must Impeach you IMMEDIATELY! 

and still

As if the everyday needs of Americans are just a nuisance, like fruit flies from over-ripened bananas, as if the social security checks, the salaries of government workers, the food assistance and Medicare payments are as irrelevant as breathing in clean air, when there is plenty of polluted air to inhale, Trump has decided that the Government will shut down, if he does not get his Racist, Xenophobic, wall built so he can demonstrate to his fellow minions that he IS that bigot and bully, his gang of goons adores and admires. I permitted myself my 10 minutes of news in the morning and showcased before was the Chuck and Nancy show with the MC being Trump, including his Court Jester and Christian Crusader Mike Pence. Fuck the country, hinted Trump, if I don’t get MY way, we will shit down the government.

With his cadre of bogus figures and in his case, fake news, Trump assured the viewing audience that Terrorists have been found to be hidden in the Caravan, 10 Terrorists, Trump bragged… reading from some notes, I am sure written in large printed letters, with disappearing ink, Trump assured the viewer that incoming immigration in El Paso, San Diego, and Tucson dwindled to almost nothing…of course, those numbers, like most information flowing freely from Trump are based on the same fiction that FOX News proudly produces each and every day.

Trying his best to blame the Dems for not wanting safe borders, Trump, sitting in his usual leaned forward, no eye contact hand waving position, cocky and arrogant and most importantly with no ounce of empathy for the millions of Americans who need the government to stay open and in business, assure the viewers, if he didn’t get HIS way, then fuck you America, the government will shut down!

This hacked into office, paid for and bought by Putin and his Oligarchs, ignorant of the laws of this land, let alone the Constitution, this pompous perverted in mind and soul maniac is still in power, still the Commander-In-Chief and CAN still destroy the very fabric of our nation…let alone our daily lives and daily living. I watched my 10 minutes of madness, and had to walk away from the television…but little will that help because in the end, Trump IS still sitting in the Oval Office!  

so confused

I am so confused, honestly…now all I hear is how much in disarray, America will fall if the Dems even consider Impeachment of Trump…HUH!!!! So, those Talking Heads and of course hypocrite Republicans tell me how MUCH MORE fucked up can America become considering the following:

The Russian Oligarchs under the tutelage and threat of Putin have paid for and bribed and are blackmailing the man sitting in the Oval Office…God only knows how many Top Secrets have become just mere text messages and emails between Washington and Moscow…Each and every Trump property is getting kickbacks from lobbyist groups, the RNC and from politicians of other nations, hoping for some kind of reward for paying off the Trump Crime Family…Almost everyone serving in the current Trump Cabinet, and those few who have willingly or under great suggestion have left their cushy jobs is on the take and cheating taxpayers of living wages…The count has gorged over 3000 lies so far that Trump has delivered, and the invention of fake news is now a THING…The US is the only nation not to sign on to the Paris Agreement to stop Climate Change…Threats to the Free Press/perceived political enemies/our Allies are a daily occurrence…people working at FOX News are either hired to run Federal Agencies or are on speed dial informing Trump of any policy change/or policy decision…and of course, there are Good Nazi’s….

So, tell me, because I am so confused…how the HELL, could it be any worse for the American people, if IMPEACHMENT is an immediate priority… Trump hates the Constitution, the Republicans, ignore the Constitution…there already is a Constitutional Crisis (and by the way that started when Comrade McConnell decided to inform his rat pack to NEVER permit one Obama ruling to become law/and they never even considered Obama’s suggested candidate for the Supreme Court. So, please all of you who have YOUR heads up your asses and get paid to pontificate regarding the future of this nation, explain to me, HONESTLY…how IMPEACHMENT is not the best idea EVER!

so now what

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back. (Ulysses S. Grant)

During the course of 1989, more and more East Germans lost their fears of the state's repression and chicanery and went out on the streets. There was no turning back then. It is thanks to their courage the Wall was opened. (Angela Merkel)

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square. (Michelle Obama)

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. (W. Clement Stone)

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. (Albert Einstein)

So now what…honestly, the more we know and understand the facts, which until now have been twisted, ignored, and defined as lies and as a gaggle of witch hunts…how do we as a nation act…not react, because to react gives the impression we are on the defense. It is so much easier, in this nation to break a law than being held responsible for your errors. We pretend, in this nation that somehow because someone is called the President, he (and hopefully one day she), is somehow above reproach, or even considering them a common citizen is tyranny or creating more chaos… Guilt, guilty, culpable, arrogant, ignorant, selfish, self-serving…yet Trump remains in office, shitting all over our Constitution, and sincerely ignoring the origins and definition of democracy…not any democracy, but ours, your country, my country! 

I am so tired of hearing overly paid Talking Heads or supposed journalists, demanding we speak not of Impeachment, or we dwell more on the future disregarding the past and sadly the present. What lessons have taught the next generation aside from the fact that Global warming is no big deal, affordable health care a privilege, the color of your skin is God’s punishment, and of course women are nothing but an annoying extra rib Adam once had…have we lost the desire to find justice, to define equality, to admonish ANYONE, from peasant to president for their wrongdoings, their con, and their selfish intent to deceive, divide, and destroy? SO NOW WHAT?! 

picture this

Picture this: I return from a week of trying to understand the meaning of life, or perhaps the reason for death…I am not certain which question comes first…I had refrained, as much as possible, (sadly politics…no the question of morals and values in politics is my addiction) so I tried my best to let the Emperor continue to wear no clothes, and ignore the blight and rot he trots around! So, I return from Charlotte and try to begin again, still not sure of where WE as a population are headed. So, it is Sunday, December 9, 2018…I promise myself that one too many postings may be just that ONE TOO MANY…so I set a self-imposed limit on ranting and raving…I had the shakes, I had the hunger pangs, I even had a headache as if I gave up caffeine (even though I hardly drink coffee)…No, I said to no one but myself, today will be a day of rest (I know, I am Jewish and it is Sunday, blah, blah, blah)…I did my darndest and set forth to vent my frustration at the gym…after all being 69 it becomes quite difficult to maintain the luxury of one day off…(maybe I have lived in LA far too long, where beauty ain’t skin deep, it is  ore for show and tell).

I wear my Boze Ear Buds, and decide that I need to hear the music from one of my most favorite musicals, Ragtime, whose storyline, and the theme seems most relevant to the Twilight Zone, an era in which we are living. My anger at the world is drowned out by the voices, the lyrics and the music of artists able to demonstrate the fragility of the world in which once existed and now somehow seems to exist but on a larger and more mean size. All is well, so far. I get the gym, located in the heart of WEHO, and even though the most men and some women there are exact replicas of models, carved in granite, I compare not, my at least three generation older physique, and instead, listen to the words of Ragtime. Nothing seems important for me, it SEEMS, but to understand the purpose of life, when in fact part of that purpose turns into death. I am not depressed, but I am dismayed because thinking this way is so difficult.

And then it is cardio time…and of course, I have a choice of CNN or MSNBC or the Golf Channel. (Three TV’s three channels in the cardio room) And there is one of the most stupid of anchors, Chuck Todd, interviewing one of the most self-absorbed Senators, Rand Paul…asking the most inane questions about Robert Mueller’s investigation…where Rand Paul, says we are making too big a deal over nothing! no, come back from Chuckie Todd, more bull shit from randy, Rand Paul…and I feel the anger swell, from my gut two my heart and finally to my lips, when, I must have shouted fuck you…(probably too loud, since I was wearing my earbuds, I was not certain of the volume of my voice). Then I realized, I still must question the question of life and death…but right now question how the fuck men like Rand Paul can live with himself…and how other men and women can permit him to lie his ass off because all he wants to do is save his own ass. Picture this: I am back!

where have all the flowers gone

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time ago Where have all the flowers gone?

…When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

(Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Pete Seeger)

It was just an hour ago, 6:30 in the morning on a chilly, bright Los Angeles morning, (chilly may be an exaggeration as the temperature was only 60…but it IS LA, after all), and upon my return from celebrating the life of my nephew and discovering the love and affection, the impact and inspiration my nephew Josh imparted on his friends and family, my weekend morning ritual of walking our dog Chance had resumed. I was home again, and the one thing about being home in LA early in the morning has always been the usually quiet, calm, almost quaint environment permitted to showcase itself before the maddening mayhem of the mundane excess explodes and LA seems to become one of those sped up videos, blurry and hard to easily watch. Morning in America, a cliche of sorts, the first three words alluding to either doom and gloom, or the possibilities of promise, to finish the statement…had arrived and my dog Chance and I faced it…for him finding a perfect place to poop and pee, and for me a bit of silent thinking, contemplating the consequences or choices that lie ahead. But then, LA started to awaken and the two men who had discovered a warmer back alley to sleep were packing up their ragtag arrangement of bed ware…the lady who always asks if I have some smokes was in search of her morning cigarettes…a man without shoes, a torn raincoat limping and looking through the green, black and blue trash cans lined up on the streets…and the older man with his two shopping carts of belongings, sitting upon the iron-plated bus stop bench, chopped up into three sections, making it uncomfortable for anyone who might need the entire uncomfortable bench as a place to lie flat for the night…I was back home, and slowly but surely, a rush of melancholy, frustration, anger, and disillusionment began to climb from my gut to my throat seeping into my brain…and I, inspire of trying hard to fight it…began to wonder why. And then a song from my hippy days of the ’60s Where Have All the Flowers Gone began playing somewhere in my brain, like a broken record.

On Friday, December, 7, 2018, America, was informed that both Paul Manafort, and Michael Cohen had lied and lied then used newer lies to lie again regarding their involvement with the Russians, the Trump Campaign, the raping of the democracy, and of course to assist Trump in using the United States as his own personal corporation. And on top of all of that, these two men (of course not JUST these two men) did so for their own fame and to enhance their own fortunes. Bad men doing bad things for a man worse than the two of them combined, Donald Trump, have fucked over this nation, and as if it was the weather forecast, and nothing else, this criminal activity was reported, AND…all I could think of was the song Where Have All the Flowers Gone? And oh yeh, when will we ever learn?

AFTERWORDS

For my friends and family who have followed my ranting, ruminating and rhetoric regarding anything Trump, over the past two years, you may have noticed a slight absence of hysterics, hyperbole, and my steady march to identify and send hypocrisy. I have pontificated loudly, and proudly regarding the politics of this nation and indirectly of this world, due to a very important lesson I learned from my parents, growing up, that values, morals, and integrity are not necessarily the nature of your DNA, but certainly are formed by the nurture of the DNA of those who love you. Since May of 2018 my family has witnessed the deaths of three relatives; in particular for me, my sister, Maxine, my brother-in-law, Jerry and this past week my nephew Josh. My family had been jolted and jarred, dismayed and depressed, shocked and saddened by the passing of three people, who for MY family made important differences in ALL of our lives. This past week, I spent time with my sister and her family, my children, my other nieces and nephews and the friends and acquaintances of those who were lucky enough to have loved my nephew Josh. I share this information, for numerous reasons, but one, in particular, is something I refer to as AFTERWORDS!

My nephew's wife and his parents decided to have a celebration of life, instead of a funeral, a dirge of sorts where the morbid, reminders of a life once lived are drowned in the traditional Jewish form of sitting SHIVA. It was decided to celebrate and educate all in attendance, about the beauty of my nephew Josh, his accomplishments, not necessarily as a professional, but as a person, as a son an uncle, a husband, a nephew, a cousin, a friend and as a human. Many of us used the power of our memories to share insights into the complicated incomplete life of a young man conspiring to become the best he could, including an entourage of loving souls along the way. This third passing of a life of a family member within seven months of a morbid 2018, hurt, but it provided some frank discussions on a variety of topics, from God, the purpose of life, and why bad things can happen to good people as well as understanding the mere minutes of mortality, and the most to be made while living.

I am back in LA, returning to my angst, anger, frustration, and fear of anything Trump, finally understanding, or should I say with more clarity why it is I find Trump and the enabling Republican Party and his Crime Family so disturbing and disgusting. I knew and now KNOW for certain, its the sheer lack of empathy, sincerity, compassion, and substance that kick me in the gut, and sheer amount senseless shit, trump, and his cohorts spew and are made from. I learned so much more about my nephew than even I had supposed. And I discovered that AFTERWORDS, albeit spoken on such a sad occasion have much power. And it is from that human experience, that I now UNDERSTAND, much easier, why I must write words that may not stop Trump and his Con Artists of Demons from continuing to destroy the concepts of equality and freedom…but I do not want to wait until the passing of our democracy to speak out and speak against the tragedy which has been initiated and motivated by those who seek only evil!