"I Am...I Said"

 "I am"... I said To no one there. And no one heard at all. Not even the chair

"I am, "... I cried." I am,"... said I. And I am lost, and I can't Even say why.” (“I Am…I Said”/Neil Diamond)

 

I WILL NOT forgive or forget. I WILL NOT become a victim. I WILL NOT turn the other cheek because both of my cheeks have been bruised and beaten. 

 

I WILL continue to call out the idiots, the insecure, the racists, the haters, the hypocrites. I WILL pity the women in Red States who have no self-respect by voting for candidates who loathe them. 

 

I WILL remember this day, with remorse, as I did Nine Eleven, as I did January Sixth. I WILL become the Resistance. I WILL find others who are tired of Dark Money, Corporations as People, and Puppet Politicians. I WILL not succumb to the sheep who somehow think as long as they bully the other, they pretend that they will never become the other. 

 

For today, I WILL mourn the loss of freedom and democracy, but I WILL only sit ‘SHIVA’ for one day and one day only because tomorrow I must fight for my freedom!

 

 

 

 

 

During this election cycle

 As I anxiously await the results of this election year…no, as I fearfully watch as the hours of this day seem like eons, the ticking of the clock so mercilessly slow…no, as I realize that I am living in angst, a present-day from which the history of this nation will tell the story of the triumph of good or the malaise of evil, trying my hardest to ignore the bull shit stories told by the media, each pretending to offer some kind of factual we told you so…a few whacks on the side of my head occurred to me.

 

During this election cycle, I have wondered why so many Republican men equate their masculinity by expressing how much they disrespect, degrade, and disparage women. 

 

During this election cycle, why is it that a more significant majority of females (not Republican females) have demonstrated that, indeed, they have the “balls” to stand up to Trump? In contrast, the Republican male seems so happy to be castrated by Trump.

 

During this election cycle, what is it that still keeps undecided voters UNDECIDED?  Is it a difficult decision to decide that Democracy is a better choice for their future, or is Fascism the real winner?

 

Of course, during this election cycle, at least for me, many other questions need to be answered, but I have pontificated on and on and on. There is, of course, one more question…after this election cycle, will anyone still be considered free?                               

Terrified again

 I was 13 years old. In two weeks, I was to become a Bar Mitzvah within the Jewish religion, and I was about to become a man officially. It was 6:00 pm on October 25; I remember my parents, my three sisters, and I sitting on the sofa in our living room. My father still had on his Pittsburgh Police Uniform, having come home from his shift. Never, ever before this moment had I noticed a look of fear in his eyes, a slight tremble in his hands as he pointed to the furniture in our house, asking us to sit and watch the news.

 

At the height of the Cold War, for two weeks in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of thermonuclear war. Earlier that fall, the Soviet Union, under orders from Premier Nikita Khrushchev, began to secretly deploy a nuclear strike force in Cuba, just 90 miles from the United States. President John F. Kennedy said the missiles would not be tolerated and insisted on their removal. (National Archives) On October 25, 1962, Walter Cronkite appeared on his news show and informed Americans that, in fact, the US had just placed an embargo on Cuba. 

 

Walter Cronkite appeared on TV and looked straight ahead as the cameras panned in on his face. To this day, I swear, he was looking at the entire Buncher Family eye to eye. His message was honest and to the point, saying to his audience, I am not confident what will happen next to America, and I was terrified!

 

September 11, 2001. I was the Assistant Executive at the Houston JCC; suddenly, some members of the JCC entered the Executive offices and told us we needed to listen to the news; something unbelievable was happening in NYC. 9:03:02: Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower (2 WTC) of the World Trade Center, between floors 77 and 85. All passengers and crew are killed together with an unknown number inside the building. 10:28:25: The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses, 1 hour and 42 minutes after the impact of Flight 11. The Marriott Hotel, located at the base of the two towers, is also destroyed. (Wikipedia)

 

It wasn’t panic, but there was a sense of urgency, a sense that madness might become reality. We issued a directive for members and staff to go home with their families. We had seniors and preschoolers in the building, some of whom could not immediately evacuate; many staff remained with these groups until they could leave.

Throughout that morning, rumors flew, nightmares became daymares, and the news once again stated that they had no idea what might happen to the United States.                 

 

Another colossal question was what would happen to the United States, and I was once again terrified.

 

Twice in my lifetime, real-time history gripped my throat, choking my lungs, seemingly smothering me. Twice in my lifetime had I become numb, too anxious to move, to think…and as November 5, 2024, approaches, I find myself facing the same questions as I did in 1962, and 2001, WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES!                                           

 

 

 

 

My Little Ladies

 Cue the music to the 50’s TV show “Father Know Best.” Here come the 2024 Republicans previewing their priorities for 2025 as in Heritages Foundations Project 2025! Somehow, the sheer ignorance of these Male Republicans has developed into a more severe case of ARROGANCE.

 

“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was “nauseating.” In criticizing the ad, he discussed a husband working hard to afford his wife’s lifestyle, and then said a wife who lied to her husband about whom she backed would amount to undermining her husband. (The Hill)

 

 

And then we have Newtie, crawling out of a fresh pile of orange turd, claiming to be the AUTHORITY ON MORALITY. I guess in his padded-walled conscience, he somehow believes that cheating and committing adulterous acts against your wife is NOT AS LOATHSOME as your wife voting for a candidate who is trying to provide freedom and liberty.

 

“These people are dishonest,” Gingrich responded. “And so, for them to tell people to lie is just one further example of the depth of their corruption. I mean, how do you run a country where you’re walking around saying, ‘Wives should lie to their husbands, husbands should lie to their wives’?” Gingrich, who had an affair during his second marriage, then held Democrats responsible for America's moral degeneration. “I mean, what kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed? (salon)

 

Honestly, as I see it, women have a simple choice: vote for someone who thinks of you as a chattel, his property, and your “DADDY,” or vote for someone who insists you are equal.              

 

 

 

Criminals

 At first, he was happy with his dog’s whispers. Then he realized that the Republican politicians, the MAGA voters, and oftentimes regular reporters would either ignore his comments, agree with his comments, or make light of his remarks.

 

“All we really have over here is the fake news, right? And to get me somebody would have to shoot through the fake news,” Trump said. “And I don’t mind that so much.” (Politico)

 

And that has ALWAYS been the case. The immoral, self-serving, loathsome Brown Shirts supporting Trump, oftentimes writing Trump opinions, and way too often feigning to be insulted, do their follow-up dance, pretending that the words Trump actually speaks were never spoken!

 

In a statement, campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung denied that Trump was wishing harm upon the media." (Politico)

 

And those who Trump identifies as the “FAKE NEWS” way too often seem to overlook some genuine and discussing hypocrisy shooting out of the Republican’s oral openings. The MAGA and Republicans love to denounce immigrants as lawless; they love to shout out that the Dems are the ones who have law and order…all the while, it is the MAGA and Republicans supporting a 34-count Felon, an accused rapist, and an accused fraud, who by the way happens NOT TO BE AN IMMIGRANT!

 

And yet this “FAKE NEWS,” for whom Trump proclaims somebody would have to shoot through them, seems to never question all those MAGA and Republicans regarding their OWN Criminal!

Isn't that RICH

 Isn’t it RICH, both literally and figuratively? 

Musk has enough extra dollars to bribe the voter, hire a bunch of minimum wage workers to try and sway voters, and finance his PAC to make certain Trump wins the race… YET, but YET, Musk seems to never have enough money to pay his fair share in taxes!

 

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, said that if Donald Trump wins and gives him a role in government, Americans will suffer “hardship” as a result of efforts to address the national debt. (MSNBC)

 

Musk is estimated to be worth $247 billion, and he is now pontificating that once Trump appoints him to some newly established DOUCHBAGGERY Government position, the rest of us NON-BILLIONAIRES will suffer, and we will be glad in some imagined long run, that Daddy Musk punished us!      

                                                                                                                                                                   

Isn’t that RICH, both literally and figuratively? 

Pretending he is a POPULIST, Musk not only has baked a cake full of shit, but he is ready to convince the low IQ, the Racist, the Bigot, the Jealous, the Self-Anointed victims that this billionaire, this wealthiest man in the world, is doing them a HUGE favor by keeping them poorer and struggling even more than they currently find themselves.    

 

Even if Musk provided this nation with a third of his billions, or maybe if he truly paid a very fair share of taxes, or even if all of the money he has used to bribe the voters were given to help fix the social-economic issues within this nation, Musk would still remain RICH!

 

And the MAGA are buying his snake oil, not even at discounted prices…Now that IS RICH!

now normal?

 WOW…I have a whole lot of other thoughts and sentences, but when I read this article, honestly, the first word that flew out of my mouth was “WOW,” Actually, it was so loudly spoken and at such a very high decibel that our poor dog ran away from me.

 

Vance, in Joe Rogan interview, predicts Trump could win 'the normal gay guy vote'. In an interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance suggested that he and Donald Trump can win the “normal gay guy vote” and that families with transgender children are looking for an edge in Ivy League college admissions.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won, just, the normal gay guy vote, because, they just wanted to be left the hell alone,” Vance said in the conversation, which lasted more than three hours and was released Thursday. “Now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they’re like, ‘No, no, we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning their genders.’” (NBC News)

 

I happen to be an American who, along with brown eyes, thin hair, and short stature, am a homosexual, and I also happen to be normal, as normal as anyone born with brown eyes, thin hair, and short stature who is a heterosexual. 

 

So, coming from JD, who has changed his name, his identity, and his own commentaries regarding Trump, now has gone into yet another abnormal, crazy zone, appearing on Joe Rogan’s very abnormal Pod Cast, to declare that being a homosexual is okay if you are a normal homosexual. If you are a normal homosexual, you are still perverted because you actually have the capacity to love…but if you vote for Trump/Vance, at least for the time being, all of that abnormal stuff will be overlooked. This entire bit of bull shit would be one more reason to consider JD an idiot, but sadly there is a group of LGB men and women identifying as LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS who do think because they have more money than most other LGB, they are normal. Republican crazy seems never to end!