almost too much

 What have we become! Today, after reading the Tweets, some election results in the commentary from Trump and his advocates for hate, I had to ask myself, WHAT HAVE WE BECOME?

 

Schools permit kids as they might, guinea pigs, to try and see if they can survive the Hunger Games of the CORONAVIRUS, never mandating CDC guidelines, but instead watching the spread of the virus attack the student, the teacher and the entire structure of a school setting. Trump brags about controlling the virus yet lifts no Imperial Powered finger to insist on Federal actions which could quell a tsunami of death, doom, and destruction. Some crazed racist anti-Semitic xenophobe is gladly welcomed by Georgians, winning her race using every slur and tome of disgust to please her home-grown thugs, only to be welcomed by Kevin McCarthy the House Minority Leader as a valued Republican member.

 

Hired guards with guns now stand by emergency rooms in hospitals and some are now used to protect scientists and professionals, whose only crime is to tell us to be aware, be alert and be intelligent! Eric Trump, the son of a man who at least a dozen women have claimed raped them, who had cheated on two of his own wives, a man had his daughter perform a lap dance while sitting upon his lap, and who would do her, Tweets that Kamala Harris was ‘whorehendous’ pick by Biden!

 

Senators continue to receive full paychecks, all their benefits, many of them wealthy billionaires and many more who became wealthy from the bribes of Lobbyists money, ignore the struggles of every day Americans and tell us $600 is way too much money…go get a job! Trump lies and lies and lies, break one law after another, after another, and the silence from the Republican Party is deafening.  Is my question incorrect, what have we become, or should it be stated, have we always been this way, and this time the petri dish had its cover removed and it permitted the bacteria to expand and escape!

 

Let's realize

 “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.” Franklin D. Roosevelt-------- I realize that we no longer can afford to debate, regarding the myriad of disinformation, disingenuous, dereliction of duty, one either promotes a shared living experience in this time of a Pandemic or one remains selfish and self-serving, generating gyrations of insincerity and insanity pretending with the great pretense that some kind of freedom will be lost if one wears a mask, social distances or abides by the desires to keep the entire entity of society safe, or just their own miserable piece of jagged glass!

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order, or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered, or confused. Baruch Spinoza---------- I realize that you are a bigoted being, and either taught from birth, or immersed with it, throughout the void of parental intervention minus their nurturing, or perhaps the wiring in your DNA shorted out, and you were left a hopeless hapless hate monger! I understand there does not have to be a permeance to racism or the phobia’s called homo or Xeno, but YOUR choice to remain afraid of others claims your attention, and fine-tunes your actions. Hypocrisy, a side-affect, persuades you to ignore your own untruths but performs miraculous marvels in fomenting and fermenting fear of others, with the added bonus of rejecting fact and inflicting fiction.

“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.” Paracelsus---------- Let’s stop pretending, that polling, posturing, placating indecision, perhaps,’s or maybe’s are REAL issues, in deciding to support women and men in politics, who refuse to respect science and medicine, intelligence and education, and whose only intention and intervention is how much Quid Pro Quo, they receive to be bribed and bargained, bought and sold! Democracy is not perfect, we have learned that lesson, but its demise is dangerous, and the imperfections of Authoritarianism, Theocracy, Plutocracy, and Fascism are as gory and insidious as George Floyd discovered having a knee on your chest causing you not to breathe and die a painfully slow agonizing death. Let’s stop pretending there is any longer something in-be-tween good and evil, right or wrong because poison kills. So you either decide anything Trump or McConnell is how your life evolves or that YOU, ME, US, YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS deserve better! 

 

 

 

The Secret Word

 In 1950, the popular radio quiz show You Bet Your Life made its television debut. Hosted by the Marx Brothers' Groucho Marx, the program featured two contestants from the studio audience taking part in an unscripted discussion that showcased Marx's ad-lib talents. The contestants then answered questions for cash. At the beginning of each show, a "secret word" was revealed to the studio audience. If a contestant mentioned the secret word during the course of the show, a stuffed duck — to which $100 was attached — dropped from the ceiling. 

In 2020, an unpopular and unstable jerk is running amuck and afoul of the law; he is also running this nation as if it was a quiz show of sorts, and unlike the 1950 ‘You Bet Your Life’ quiz show, our lives are really at stake! Trump is not a comedian, although he plays one in real life. Trump is not a host of a quiz show, but he pretends that all Americans are his studio audience and plastered to his every self-imposed importance. BUT like the 1950’s TV Quiz show, in which the announcer, announced the SECRET WORD, Trump and his PR anarchists and self-appointed treasonous have also come up with a new SECRET WORD…and that word has scary connotations for the misinformed and the ignorant, it is called MANIFESTO: similar to past SECRET WORDS used by Trump-like SOCIALISM, ANTIFA, CHINA VIRUS MANIFESTO it is presented as if Trump understands its meaning, and if he uses it enough in ways to hopefully place the plastic bag over the heads of the MAGA and their GOOD NAZI pals, FEAR will resonate, and no one will want to vote for Biden or those suddenly nasty left-wing Dems.

 

MANIFESTO: A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially of a political nature. The intention with this SECRET WORD is simple and one of the tricks up the sleeves of the Trumpster’s to misinform the already ignorant. Trump’s Swamp Things are going to start with the word MANIFESTO, then lead to something called The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which was first published in 1848. It formed the basis for the modern communist movement as we know it, arguing that capitalism would inevitably self-destruct, to be replaced by socialism and ultimately communism. And try to link the Dems as Left-Wing Radicals wanting to replace Democracy with something else. Soon, the BUZZ will be is Joe Biden trying to replace our Democracy by issuing a MANIFESTO, just like the Commies, not the Putin Commies, but the Chinese Commies. In actuality, Trump is proclaiming that the Dems are trying to emulate the GOP in the disparaging and destruction of democracy. Start counting how many times the word MANIFESTO is going to be used, and listen to the scary music in the background!

 

And by the way, a MANIFESTO had been proclaimed by the US it was called, The Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. Remember, say the Secret Word, MANIFESTO, and you bet your life is gonna suffer the consequences!

 

 

 

some kind of truth

 “The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS.”-Carl Gustuv Jung: Each day, we read an article, find a Tweet, watch a flawed and floundering personality, vengeful, incite vitriol against others, slur his words, speak in sentences so long and run-on in structure, that, when his tongue finally stops wagging, we are astonished something human just communicated with us. We are immediately told by those who relish in his depleted mental capabilities that none of us heard exactly what he meant, and then his ENABLERS restructure, re-perform, or re-address that which was Trump’s’ truth, but no longer matters because that was so 5 minutes ago! A laugh, a giggle, a snarky comment, a concerned public aware of his dementia; and nothing but reaction to this collection of evil called Trump, and we still permit him to ACT OUT!

 

“People say that it's the big decisions that are important... that these are the type of issues worthy of prolonged consideration. But no one ever explains how it's the little choices that send your life careening in another direction.” -Julie Gittus, Saltwater Moons: So now, Steve Mnuchin tells us that even the poison of government assistance still carries a caveat, that any relief ordained or Executive Ordered has a dangling participle to it, vote for Trump, or all that is given will be taken away. Pouty, moody, an ego starving to be fed as might a farmer provide the sludge and slurry grit to a pig, so once the county fair approaches, HIS animal is the BIGGEST, BEST MOST TREMENDOUS creature, Trump creates and invents enemies who pleasure him not, and befriends those who know how to do the Quid Pro Quo, and HIS ego like the Farmers Pig must win the Ribbon od First Place. Who is considered, well is a considerable concern because if Trump’s re-election IS NOT in CONSIDERATION, fuck you, and little dog too!

 

“In the world, I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.” -Charlaine Harris, Dead as a Doornail: To test, or not to test, do understand if you are positive or negative, and then what happens with that knowledge. Send your kids to school, and as they return invite their newest friend named CORONA home with them. Pretend your freedoms are at stake now but forget that you denied permission toward women wanting the rights to their reproductive anatomy, or that peoples jobs, marriage, adoption, and a life of just cool and calm who identify as LGBTQ, never get to enjoy peaceful freedom. And then ignore just living a black person, and the entire 24-hour period of paranoia and problems which arise with the sun, and never quite end at sunset.

 

We know truth matters, but whose truth do we permit to exist!
 

 

 

A Melancholy

 There is a melancholy, at least I have decided to name it as melancholy, that has seeped deeply into each cell of my being. I recall, my Grand Pa Buncher, a man oftentimes of too few words, right before my Bar Mitzvah, explaining to me, that we may cherish the moment in which we find ourselves, we may indulge in its clamor and cheerfulness, but never believe all you see and feel, because tomorrow, is always something other than today, becoming the newest the priority. Part of becoming a man, he added! It is not a sorrowful thing, losing a particular moment, upon which you think holds the grandest of meaning, Gerry, but depending on it NOW, as if it will last FOREVER, is a bit silly. The truth of the matter; ending his speech (I knew when his words of wisdom began to wane, as his tall straight posture became less pronounced and the comfort of shrugging settled in) recalling it later is the key. We sometimes remember the joy as if it had been an elixir, but once, like seltzer the fizz is gone, all you have is a fine glass of water. (Gerry Buncher-2020)

 

“Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
And I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America” (America/Paul Simon-1967)

 

I hate driving, and when we lived in LA, the one place where cars are king, I walked everywhere, I developed a phobia and feared sitting behind the wheel, and refused to drive, opting for walking, car services or my reliable husband Joe. Now Joe and I are living on the Cape, and 6 miles from our house I work a part-time job as a hotel manager, and drive into Provincetown! My phobia of driving had no room in the padded cell of fear and loathing caused by Trump/ McConnell and the Crime Families/Crime Cabinet/Crime Cronies, and without having my brain explode, I lessened the pressure as one might use a pressure cooker, gave in, and hit the open road (albeit 6 miles of it) Name the numerous plagues, which have befallen us from the first hacking of election in 2016 to the current plethora of criminality, lack of morals/values/ indifference to the Constitution, and now the truth which is that the currency of human life is worth less than the currency of greed, grifting and ghoulishness of those who prefer profit over people! As I drive, I play the music collected on my phone and find that suddenly the years of 1967 (when I graduated high school, and 1968 my time in college), provide me with joy, a sense of peace, and knowledge that I did survive the turmoil then. My Grand Pa Buncher’s voice resonates as Simon and Garfunkel surround me in song…”To recall the joy, of the past, is the best of understanding how you lived and what you wished for. There is melancholy, smothering me, and I find little to no relief from its clinging fingers, almost now taking root. I will NOT give up or give in, but some days, the desire to dismiss the doom is so depressing! (Gerry Buncher-2020)

 

“In my little town
I grew up believing
God keeps his eye on us all
And he used to lean upon me
As I pledged allegiance to the wall
Lord, I recall my little town
Coming home after school
Flying my bike past the gates of the factories
My mom doing the laundry
Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze
And after it rains there's a rainbow
And all of the colors are black
It's not that the colors aren't there
It's just imagination they lack
Everything's the same back in my little town

My little town, my little town

Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town
Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town” (My Little Town/Paul Simon- 1967)

 

Its not entertaining

“The clown with his pants falling down
Or the dance that's a dream of romance
Or the scene where the villain is mean
That's entertainment!” (That’s Entertainment/Allen Schwartz)-----Of course where else but yet one more EXCLUSIVE, MEMBERS ONLY Country club, owned by Trump, surrounded by an audience of wealthy donors, the wealthier who hardly pay any tax toward the American treasury thus to the American economy, standing shoulder to shoulder, minus any face mask, so when the applause sign flashes as it might in a sham game show, or a poorly written sitcom, the Press (the Fake Press permitted for this EXTRAVAGANZA MAGA RALLY) were gathered at The Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, NJ. Breaking the mandatory law by the NJ Governor, Trump’s response was that HIS MEMBERS were protesting, so like the LEFT RADICALS, no masks were necessary.

 

“The clerk who is thrown out of work
By the boss who is thrown for a loss
By the skirt who is doing him dirt” (That’s Entertainment/Allen Schwartz)----- "I will act under my authority as president to get Americans the relief that they need," Trump told reporters during an appearance at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Friday night. In his remarks hours later, Trump said he would extend federal unemployment benefits through the end of the year, but he would not say at what level or what mechanism would allow him to do so. The $600 weekly payments approved by Congress in April expired in July, and Republicans have pushed to lower the payments.

 

“The gag may be waving the flag
That began with a mystical hand
Hip hooray!
The American way
The world is a stage,
The stage is a world of entertainment” (That’s Entertainment/Allen Schwartz)----- Trump also said he would reduce the payroll tax — a preference of the president that was roundly rejected by members of his own party in Congress — and said he would both seek to extend a moratorium on evictions through the end of the year and to defer student loan payments and stop interest from accruing, although he did not say for how long.

 

“It might be a fight like you see on the screen
A swain getting slain for the love of a queen
Some great Shakespearean scene
Where a ghost and a prince meet
And everyone ends in mincemeat.” (That’s Entertainment/Allen Schwartz)----- The Congress is taking a BREAK, it is called THE SUMMER RECESS, and between now and only until the arrogant, aloof, the irresponsible, but responsive to only their 1% Donor Class of Domestic Terrorists, the self-anointed American Royalty, still receiving THEIR salaries, benefits, perks health insurance, and chump change to live their American Dream-----until they decide that even for them too many Americans are either dying or devastated by COVID, too many Americans are living on the streets, without food, almost as if the vision of German ghettos during the Nazi occupation in Europe is happening in America---or until the self-absorbed politicians realize they ain’t gonna be voted back into office, will the SUMMER RECESS BE RECALLED

 

The world is a stage,
The stage is a world of entertainment.
That's entertainment!
That's entertainment! (That’s Entertainment/Allen Schwartz)----- Not our world, not yours or mine or the millions of Americans sick or dying, unemployed, sending their kids back to school, having to go back to work, deciding their priorities of paying food, shelter, health costs, clothing…BUT for Trump it’s a REALITY SHOW, it is his WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT!

 

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to utilize executive orders for coronavirus aid after congressional Democrats and the White House hit an impasse over another round of assistance.

 

 

lazy

 For anyone Trump: So the GOP feels that $600 a relief check is motivating American’s not to work, so he and the GOP want to lower that payment to either $200 or $400. Remember it is our TAXPAYER Dollars (not the ultra-wealthy 1% or Corporations because they pay so little or nothing in taxes. Stevie (let me take my wife on a Tax Payer funded honeymoon trip to Fort Knox and watch a meteor shower) Mnuchin says that giving Americans who need money for rent or mortgages, food or health care and or all of the above, said he and his Republicans cannot permit Americans to stay home and not work while being paid the $600.

 

HE says that while the Senate has taken a long weekend break, getting paid to NOT work, while the TAXPAYER, pays for their laziness and lack of motivation. NOT WORKING, while the rest of America rots! Talk about NO sense of empathy and intelligence.