MAGIC

Magic: A mystery of action, a mingling of opportunity, sheer motion of the seen blended with the unknown, only to suddenly become apparent. Magic: An idea, an icon consisting with lots of perhapses, transforming itself into a performance creating a pounding probability with a poof, splash and a giant pizzazz! Magic!

Magic: Hope found, freedom formed, potential, energized to dance with every rhythm possible, enticing your mind to roam as free as your limbs, like the wings of a bird. Magic: Wide, wild, quiet, quick, thick as the muddy water of a swamp, yet clear enough to count the millions of atoms surrounding your aura. Magic!

I have searched for Magic, sometimes tripping over it, and other moments feeling faint, hungry and thirsty, thinking it might never surface again. I am sure I can define it, yet when I try my sentences become blurred and burdened with either too many consonants or not enough vowels. Magic is like your best friend, your true love, the people in your life who mean, matter and make the next moment count; and, just as when the time arrives and your family or friends must say until next we meet, Magic’s departure leaves us with a dark hole only filled with emptiness. Freedom, equality, fair, justice, honesty, are all forms of Magic for me, some aloof, some alluring, some assumed but all As Life Should Be and Become. Magic I have finally realized is not an out of body experience, but an extra gene, at the ready to perform when your heart and mind meld into one. I want my Magic back, and my wish for the New Year for all of my friends and family who believe we are more then bigotry, bullying and brazen disregard for smart is to make Magic magical again! Happy New Magical Year!

OBVIOUS

Agatha Christie could conjure up some of the best who done it novels, ever. She supplied the reader with clues so OBVIOUS as to ignore them for being just that, OBVIOUS. She often times made it very clear who did it, but the reader had to wait for the last chapter to realize the OBVIOUS. Shirley Jackson, preferred the mysteries of what makes us good and what motivates us to be bad. It was apparent to Ms Jackson, that good and bad were innate actions, natural responses for humans, but never quite OBVIOUS unless we viewed both responses to life from a distance. Often times her characters knew how they were going to attempt their next move, but hardly any of them understood how OBVIOUS their behaviors were to the onlooker. Stephen King writes of the mysteries of the moral dilemma. His characters making positive choices, which to them seem the OBVIOUS action sometimes get lost in understanding the consequences that follow. Mr King’s evil creations sadly seem to know just how OBVIOUS their misdeeds will lead into a dire direction. All three authors take and took a look into lives lived and knew and know that fate is not always a carefree direction into the future, but can be manipulated and mutilated. All three authors are masters at their craft, supposing, assuming, and calculating human responses to life.

Today, President Obama, announced some of  the US government’s response to the interference of a foreign power (Russia) regarding our election cycle and the attempt to delay the democratic process. But even with this announcement and attempt to rectify, an unprecedented act of cyber war on the US, We the People are still trying to solve the mystery of what the hell happened in 2016 politics. Watch closely, as the lead characters, Trump, Putin, the RNC, Comrade McConnell, Comrade-In-Training Ryan and the treasonous Team Trump talking heads act as if they were characters written by Agatha Christie/Shirley Jackson/and Stephen King. There are obvious clues, many of these anarchists love to play the morals/values game, and most of them knew and know how their sinister actions will be perceived, by people who have no clue in the world that they in fact have been duped. Trump/Pence/McConnell/FOX News/Priebus/Ryan/Ivanka/and Jarod will pretend to deny/defer/delay any of this covert and overt action, and this should be OBVIOUS to the rest of us, just how rotten the Republican Party has become.

As I see it, Putin wined and dined Trump feeding his ego with promises of a narcissistic utopia (along with the privilege of any women’s vagina he so desired), video/audio was taken and finally Trump was let in on the plan. The Russians not only hacked the DNC servers but the RNC emails. Most likely the dirt found in these hacked computers was truly as dangerous as the Ebola virus, so McConnell/Preibus/Ryan stopped resisting Trump and joined forces. Hoping that Trump would implode on his own, the RNC pushed for Pence to be VP, becoming the Prez, and promoting the very anti-American laws and persecution which are synonymous with anything Republican. The RNC was hoping that Obama would do the right thing (the thing they always complained about, and respond to Vlad and in doing so, demolish anything Trump. So confusing, but a plot as twisting and turning as Christie/Jackson/King would ever write…seems OBVIOUS to me!

Petri-Dish

Ya just might wonder, if not for the fact that THEY are Republicans, but ya might just wonder, how come the GOP has such a love affair for the Jews when they live in Israel, but don’t seem to mind the anti-Semitism which has blossomed in this country somehow finding root since the Russians decided to nominate Trump. Heart and hardy, the voices from the Conservative Christian politicians can’t find enough air time to harangue the Obama administration regarding its policies against Israel. How come the Republicans are so very, very, VERY quiet permitting the voices of their crew the Aryan Nation/American Nazi Party/and the ever popular KKK to shout loud and proud about threatening the Jews of America; while humbly excusing themselves to express an opinion toward this very anti American rhetoric. Ya might just wonder, how much of an Israel love affair these religious zealots would demonstrate if their pay to pray Christian leaders decided that, the Messiah changed his mind and didn’t need all the jews of the world to immigrate to Israel for the rapture to begin…Ya just might ponder that!

Ya just might wonder, AGAIN, if this was not the Republicans we are discussing, ya just might wonder how vehement their voices become defending the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, but when the the Russians hacked our polling stations/ are blackmailing Trump/promoting restrictive voter ID Laws/and instituting gerrymandered voting districts…somehow democracy is NOT at all endangered. Nope, Corporations Are People, Lobbyists Are People but real Americans are not People when it comes to the GOP defining democracy. When Paul Ryan and his anarchists or is it Fascists present laws that punish descent, that outlaw the rights the first Amendment promises and Comrade Mitch McConnell refuse to investigate in earnest how Vlad and his spy network interfered in out democratic process, the Republicans are quiet, playing the game if we don’t see it or say it it IS NOT REAL.

Ya just might wonder, yep its the Republicans, ya might just wonder, where Trumps voice of indignation evaporated to, as he was so vocal about the US’s abstaining vote in the UN, but has said not a SINGLE solitary word about the Storm Troopers who are intimidating, and threatening the Jews of Whitefish Montana. And ya might wonder why Trump is so silent about the right wing attack on Jews in this nation as his daughter, grand children and son-in-law, are Jewish.  Ya might wonder, but it would be a waste of time, as the GOP once again has invented the double standard. From Ryan to McConnell to Trump and of course the Jewish Kushner’s there is no talk of the anti-Semitism alive and flourishing like bacteria in a petri-dish of Republican politics. Too much at stake to threaten the core voters of a corrupt political party as the GOP!

Whitefish Montana

Dear Ivanka and Jared Kushner, Once again, I am writing to you as a fellow Jewish American, wondering why the hell are your voices of indignation, irritation so nonexistent? Really, two well heeled and certainly well placed Jews and you both remain deafeningly silent, as your father and father-in-law and his colony of right wing anarchists say, do and pretend to know nothing regarding the American Nazi Party, White Aryan Nationalists and KKK who so vapidly and viciously support his “let’s make America white” campaign. The outrage Trump’s American Nazi’s expressed when your father (And, Ivanka, your second step mother, the ever suddenly invisible Melania)  provided the nation with a Happy Hanukah greeting, but only providing these White Supremacists with a show of your fathers small fist and some very orange skin sans his wife, standing next to a tree! Trump’s army of brown shirt, swaztika clad Klansmen were besides themselves, claiming that they might have to disavow their bigoted and hateful support, because Trump favored the Jews (Ah, the words they used were not exactly Jews , but a whole lot of racial slurs which provide the reader with a much broader appreciation of anti-Semitism).

Ivanka, honey, you actually converted to Judaism, so your investment in the religion was sought after and crafted, so you even more than Jared, should have been livid, (Not only when these inbred morons shouted Jewish slurs regarding the holiday greetings), but all along as the Nazi’s, Aryan Brotherhood and KKK promoted your father as the next Fuhrer. And you, Jared, silent, as Steve Bannon continues to creep into the recesses of your father-in-laws body, (You sure were not silent in getting revenge for Chris Christie’s legal challenges toward your own father’s misdeeds), certainly misdeeds against your own Jewish people should have made you go ballistic. We are told, that you Jared, are the one who helps Trump fall asleep at night, your voice we are reminded resonates as a lullaby, so it would make sense that YOU of all people, should stand tall among the Jews in this nation and shout enough!

Ivanka and Jared, shame on both of you for oh so many reasons. Spoiled rich kids who have been told that neither one of your shit stinks. You both somehow believe that money makes you safe from bigotry, bias and bogus. (How about taking a trip to Whitefish Montana with your father/father-in-law and having Trump inform the Storm Troopers that any attack on the Jews living there is the SAME as an attack on his own family) You both are Jewish, but not in the same way as those kind of Jews who deserve being harassed by insecure idiots who have been relegated with respect by the Republicans. Dear Ivanka and Jarod I might ask how you can live with yourselves, but the better question is how can you live the lives you do and actually look at your children? Shame on both of you! 

Never, Ever

Not one more, this has never happened before. Not one more how could he do that. Not one more nomination of a corrupt, inept, unqualified person. Not one more this time he will pay the consequences. Not one more stupid Tweet. Not one more lie. Not one more aghast, agog, OMG. Not one more pay to play with anyone from his family. Not one more bit of indulgence pretending that fair and balanced is giving a jerk the benefit of any doubt. Not one more explanation of the truth by a pack of liars. Not one more bit of credit to a loan shark. Not one more moment…should ANY of US look the other way, hem or haw, feign dismay, or remain SILENT…Trump did not win fair or square…he should not be treated in ways he would NEVER treat others…he is a coward as are the GOP who continue to fear the wrath of a soon to be dictator…

WE all should DEMAND…his tax returns…his plans for his family enterprise…scrutinize his inner circle and question their allegiance to America…discover the truth about his mental and physical condition…call him out on EVERY single Tweet, comment and debate answer from his election year campaign, asking him if he still agrees with what he had said or NOT, and if he answers I never said that either because he is pre-dementia or just using his con, WE should play the tape or retweet…WE all should REMIND him that he did not win the popular vote and that there is NO mandate from Americans for his or the Republican policies of increasing tax breaks for the wealthy while decreasing medicare, social security, affordable health care. WE all should PRESS him hard on what evidence he is using for issues such as global warming, energy, and if he comes up with the answers from people known as conspiracy theorists, WE should EMBARRASS him for being a dumb ass!

WE should NEVER, EVER, let history repeat itself…permitting an individual to attain power using bigotry and bias as a bully pulpit, looking the other way as long as the current enemy is not us. WE should be vigilant fight against politicians from any political party who have no backbone, soul or conscience, who think that compromise with a demagogue is even an option. AND most of all WE should NEVER, EVER, remain SILENT!

SILENCE

NEWT Gingrich, your hypocrisy is loud and brash, it is as attention grabbing as you have always desired. Your reasoning lacks any responsibility, you know it, but you also realize the angry mob is at the ready for a good lynching, and it needs absolutely no good reason for mayhem. Sell some more books, be placed at the head of the talking head table, shout and scream, but here is the thing, NEWT, your SILENCE is deafening when you speak of morals and values for this nation. TEDDY Cruz, how verbose you were when President Obama shared condolences for Fidel Castro. Why you and tiny MARCO Rubio stammered and shouted just how antiAmerican it was for our president to speak eloquently of Castro. But now TEDDY your SILENCE regarding TRUMPS’S cozy communist relationship with VLAD is deafening. The lack of anger, the lack of compassion for this nation’s well being, speaks volumes of just how much of a hypocrite you have been and still are.

PAUL Ryan, you Conservative Catholic Con Man, numero uno in the hierarchy of becoming president, yet your lack of interest, your sheer boredom, your Party before Country persona speaks volumes of hate for the we the people. No interviews, no camera’s, no concern that the Russians have co-opted the GOP, the FBI. You had so much more to say, and say, and say about anything Hillary, all that stuff didn’t cause a security breach. But now PAUL Ryan your SILENCE regarding TRUMP and his hacking buddies is utterly disgustingly deafening. And you COMRADE McCONNELL, what  a guy. Nothing to see here you proclaim, no big deal that the Russians interfered with our electoral process, let alone our democracy. The Senate Leader, COMRADE McCONNELL, and you decide that no one will be held accountable or responsible for treasonous intent. Is it your Crony Capitalism regarding your wife, your ransom to the Lobbyists who have financed your campaign and personal bank account, or is it the fact that VLAD and his buddies must one hell of a lot of dirt on you personally. Whatever it is COMRADE McCONNELL, you SILENCE is down right deafening.

Those of us who understand the lessons of history, understand just how destructive SILENCE  can be. We may chose to be SILENT, but any deal with the Devil has caveats, because after SILENCE, we have no choice but to become blind, and deaf to the world around us. And then we become motionless as the powerful who never remained SILENT take control.

Jason Chaffetz

Representative Jason Chaffetz is the Chairman of the US House Committee on Government Reform. Jason Chaffetz likes being important he will tell you so, with a bit of humility in his voice, but will brag that what he does, may ruffle a few feathers, but he performs his duties because the American public must be served. What he does not tell you is that what he also does is serve his political ambitions and of course follows the party line of the Republicans whose mantra has become Party before Country (A common theme, often times for most Communist leaders and of course two bit dictatorial regimes).

Jason Chaffetz has spent almost 2.5 years leading a committee discussing the leaked emails of Hillary Clinton. Jason Chaffetz has requested liars, conspiracy experts, and people with nothing more than here say to perform for his committee and assume that somehow Hillary’s emails were dangerous enough to have citizens in this nation die, or be killed. Jason Chaffetz is and was a company man, the company called the Republican Party. Jason Chaffetz’s committee found that not one person has suffered nor died regarding the hacking of Hillary’s emails. Jason Chaffetz of course spent little to no time on a larger fact, regarding those emails; that in fact it was the Russians, a foreign power interfering with an election of the United States.

Jason Chaffetz’s committee had other responsibilities, but those were not as bombastic and self promotional as anything Hillary. The Republican Governor of the state of Michigan and his hooligans were poisoning people in Flint Michigan. Women, Men and Children had been drinking, this water filled with lead, some getting sick some sure to die. Unlike anything Hillary, there was a definite negative cause and effect. But unlike anything Hillary, the guys declaring war on the American public happened to be Republicans. After a few Committee hearings on the fate and fatalities in Michigan, Jason Chaffetz, with the arrogance, similar to that of Putin and his hacking, Jason Chaffetz, closed any inquiry into the poisoning of Flint, stating a few mistakes had taken place…lets move on. 

We should wish Jason Chaffetz his wife Julie, and his kids, Ellie, Max, and Kate a very Merry Christmas. Thank him for making safer from Hillary. Tell him the wrapped package you’ve sent are five pitchers of water for he and his family, pitchers of water from Flint, for all the effort he had placed in solving that problem.

Hanging Chads

The mystery of the hanging chads in Florida, we knew there was a problem when a tiny hole punch became large enough to call in the Supreme Court to settle the results of a presidential election. We sighed and stammered, our democracy, we shallowly yelled and screamed, our American way has been tampered with and left to look like an empty shell, all of this happening in what was supposed to be the mightiest nation in the world. Time moved on and in a typical now you see it now you don’t political play, neither the Republicans or the the Democrats did much to solve the problem. The Supreme Court once again stepped into the election fray and gave birth to the Corporation, saying it was now a person. A new type of being wealthier than the average human, mightier then most, and with enough superpowers to move any piece of legislation it so desired. Not to be outdone, the Supreme Court, still a wily body of nine declared that the old days of checks and balances regarding the right to vote, were just that…OLD…these are modern times said the Court so don’t worry, EVERYONE’S right to vote will be upheld…except when it wasn’t!

So, here we are once again, with all kinds of interference and irregularities abound, acting as if this time IS the first time something as UnAmerican as THIS, has found its footing in this red, white and blue nation. Ahhh, talk is cheap so we do a lot of that. Hacking of polling machines, limited polling place locations, less days to pre-vote, ID Laws changing and rearranging who REALLY can vote. An electoral college, thinking it is just one more scam by the people who brought you Trump University. Espionage, foreign intervention, lack of concern from one political party, media making the news and not reporting the news, fraud, frenzy and the freedom of one person one vote evaporated. What to do, what to do….

Most likely, NOTHING. As great on paper as it sounds, the practical ideals of a democratic process have, like all of the newest of tech innovations, moved on moved ahead. Politics is a big money business, the business owners, the mega million dollar donors can’t trust its employees (The American public) to run the business. We the people has become, we the politicians.And we the politicians have their own agenda’s like lining their bank accounts, fulfilling their own personal needs. We will continue to be like those hanging chads, without form or function, unless we finally pull ourselves together and take back this nation, ourselves!

GORT

To whom should we turn…seriously exactly who in our government is the source We the People should now rely on to assist us with reclaiming any minutia of democracy?  Is it the Electoral College, a group of people most of us do not know, nor even understand why and how they are the electoral college voters? The Supreme Court with its 8 Justices, providing us as partisan a panel of judges as there has ever been? The Republican Leadership, the men (The white men in leadership) the same guys who looked the other way as Vlad and his Russian hackers tore into the DNC and anything Hillary? The men who found it too time consuming and tedious to establish another oversight witch hunt? The leadership of the minority party of Dems, the folks who either are wearing a sign on their back that says kick me, I am with stupid, or as George Bush proudly said you can fool me once but now stated by the every so non proactive Dems ‘Fool me as many times as necessary?’

To whom can we count on as a purveyor of truth…seriously exactly who in the cable news media is the sounding board examining the facts? Is it the networks who worry that too much truth telling will piss off the ever vexed Trump Team, denying them any access to the president of the USA? The cable outlets, the corporations for whom a catchy sound byte is the best headline…where ratings decide the type of commentary…the ones who prefer Jerry Springer moments to motivate their listeners…who use opinion as their guide and object to facts? The minions of talking heads, recycled over and over again, almost making one wish some of those heads would explode?

To whom, to what, to how, to when to why….And yet, even though Trump has done it again and this time he REALLY won’t get away with it, HE DOES IT AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN…Lots of talk, circling his wagons, violations, lack of’s and as if he truly was like the alien monster GORT, in the movie “The Day The earth Stood Still”, nothing penetrates his lawlessness, treason, divisive mantel. I wish someone would tell us what now, because I am so ready and eager to assist!

He continues

He lies, he loves lying, he cannot help but lie. He brags, begging for attention. He begins each sentence with the word me and ends each inflammatory idiotic ranting with not you. He is, was and always will be a buffoon, a belligerent bully, begging to be bigger and better than he boasts. He lingers with lack of depth and fills that void full of devious diversions. And yet, he is the President Elect, almost at the ready to sit inside an Oval Office with the permission to fuck it up as he pleases. I complain, we criticize, I bemoan, we cannot believe, I feel as if I have experienced a death of something loved, we share sympathies, and yet he is set to become the guy, who, by title, may be the most powerful person on this planet.

His collateral of clowns, silly to look at, disgusting to listen to, control the conversation, with sinister double speak, yet are hardly questioned about their intent. No one knows the truth, and yet, it seems to never matter. Each day there is a new bombshell, but somehow the blast never hits the teflon of hypocrisy, which snuggly saves him from any wound. The trace of his past is seemingly written with invisible ink, the misdeeds he has done are tossed around as useless anecdotes; archaic antiques, relics too ridiculous to even ruminate about. Nothing to see here we are told, just a bunch of jealous lovers who only wished they were important enough to remember. And yet, he seems unstoppable, in his selfish stupor, mainly because no one has truly tried hard enough to stop him.

So, what happens next, I wonder. How many law suits…how many unconstitutional actions…how much more nepotism…how many more insults…how much hostility. We ask these questions, yet all I read is innuendo and opinion. Why is it so difficult for a collective we to rally around a solution. We know he is unfit, unstable, and unwilling to to be anything but a danger, yet we treat him as if he is too dangerous to contain. So he will continue…

Gas Light This

STOP, ALREADY! Pretending that using the term gas lighting, gas lit, gas lighted is an excuse for just being too lazy to either recall the truth, from yesterday, or just too ignorant to question something that obviously IS NOT the truth. DUH! We have things called audio/video/Twitter, EVERYTHING, anybody, said, says once said twice or Tweeted, is there… Trump lies, his henchmen lie, surrogates lie, the GOP lies…they have been doing so since the start of this election season. Trump is busy thinking about how important he will be in the next minute to remember which lie he just told…Along with his hands the inside area of his brain is also small…Trump can’t remember what he just said. He is much more important then yesterdays news, even if yesterdays news was just two seconds ago! Gas Light, cut me a break, the only time that term made sense was in the movie. Are we all falling into a sad excuse for NOT wanting to deal with the facts…are we ALL becoming FOX News viewers!!!!!!!!! 

Chump Change

Chump Change, a friend of mine from back in the day used that term to brush off the nay-sayers who could only provide their 5 cents worth of negativity, never seeing the true value of a community program. Chump Change, was a term I really felt appropriate for evaluating the worth of some people who find it difficult to see the big picture, but would rather spend their time on what is in it for them.

Three career- termed Senators, Comrade Mitch McConnell (30 years), his gerrymandered assistant Comrade -In-Waiting  Senator Cornyn (14 years), and the ever I am holier than thou guy who will have served in the Senate for 40 years in 2017 Senator Orrin Hatch, all stood together, droll of delight dripping from their sour pusses and all three had the audacity to proclaim (GLEEFULLY) at least they looked it (Most of the time they look like dressed up corpses), that somehow only 4% of Americans (to be exact, 20 million Americans, to be more exact even one of those 20 million who can live another day is not bad), will lose their ObamaCare, when the GOP repeals it. Nothing to see here folks these professional Senators declare. Chump Change, of course presented to you by the Republican Party (You know, the ones who want fetus’s to hire lawyers, or parents to bury a zygote…the ones who are Pro Life, as long as it lives inside the womb…the ones who think food stamps are bad for your ego or cause you to to do drugs…you know, the ones who think a minimum wage makes you weak…the ones who believe child labor laws are a liberal joke…the ones many of you Evangelical Christians voted for…Oh by the way Comrade McConnell is from Kentucky, and his bud the Assistant Comrade is from Texas, two states with a lot of people living below the poverty line…think about that when you believe Jesus loves him some Republican Senators! 

God, America

Conspiracy Time: However, a disclaimer, since this blog is about the Republicans, I am not sure I can’t use the word conspiracy unless I add the words, just one more way the GOP is about to hijack America!

The GOP, is under great pressure from Russia, to toe the Party line (guess which party)…the stuff the Russians hacked regarding the RNC most likely would even make Trump shiver. But Vladimir is a smart enough man to give his little puppet GOP politicians some room to roam. Trump will be inaugurated as the president. Little fuss will be made by most Republicans, and we will, until at least one month into office, have the Republicans marvel at the miracle called Putin. Suddenly, the same Jesus who whispered into Palin, Bachmann, Perry, Cruz and Gingrich’s ears to run for president, will magically appear and NOW tell VP Pence, that all those other Jesus’s were fakes, phonies. Pence will be born once again and proclaim he has seen the light and that Trump is indeed a charlatan. Pence will feign that he too was duped and Trump is now a sinner (Forget that the Evangelicals called him Christian in training). Suddenly there will be bipartisan interest in impeaching Trump. Because NOW, the Russians will have all they need via intelligence from the US government.

Pence is the man the GOP want in the office because he is a Party player. He will not stray away from the Christian Conservative Fascist Doctrine of a Theocratic America. Most of the madness will be placed on Trump. Trump will continue to think he too has the evidence and the blackmail on the GOP, but in true form Vladimir Putin will turn on Trump and out blackmail him. God Bless America!

You Are Now

Back in the Fifties, the Republican Party attempted to quell freedom of speech and the right to dissent, by claiming the Russians were trying to influence our American Way of life by turning this Red, White, and Blue Country into a solid Red Nation. The Republicans reminded its captive citizens that this here USA is a God Loved country, not some God Forbidden Communist Archipelago (Forced Labor Camp). Always the captains of the philosophy that fear mongering, triumphs over anything factual, and under the tutelage of one of the Republican’s best propagandist, Senator Joe McCarthy, the GOP established the Committee on UnAmerican Activities, using a specially crafted catch phrase: “…Are you NOW, or have you EVER been a member of the Communist Party…” Simple sentence permitting only one answer. If you pleaded the Fifth, or answered in the positive, the opportunities and freedoms in your life and those of your family and close friends was nil and void. Being a Commie, liking the Commies, knowing a Commie was a bunch of bad news, way back THEN…

…But NOW in the year 2016, The Republican Party has changed its ways. NOW the question they ask, under the tutelage of another Senator, Mitch McConnell, goes like this: “…Why aren’t you a member of the Communist Party and when do you suppose to become one…” Knowing a Commie, being a Commie or just enjoying the perks that Commies provide WILL make your life much more profitable and of course less democratic.

My guess is that although Master spy Putin provided massive details on anything Hillary or the DNC in his sophisticated hacking, he kept hidden the secrets from the RNC. Putin is a hunter, he wanted the Hillary, DNC kill to be quick (His way of a mercy killing). But Putin is a savvy man and he certainly must have had his hands on a hell of lot more fascinating and devious tricks owned and operated by the RNC. The RNC is prone to foul play, and I am certain the play book for this was well received by Putin. The RNC is being blackmailed, and Putin’s kill is without mercy for them. it will be slow and painful. Look closely at how almost every single Republican has either embraced the Russians or remain silent. It might be a whole lot of fun to watch as the GOP implodes, but sadly along with their sad souls, the future of America’s soul rests. “ARE YOU NOW…”

Merry Christmas Aleppo

The self anointed army of Christ, the Evangelical Conservative Southern Christian Baptists (There are oh so many sums to this whole mess), have made it precise and pretty clear that we are to celebrate, to every last good American, the holiday of Jesus Christ’s birthday, as he was born in a manger in Bethlehem, (Which is and was located in the Middle east; but a kinder gentler Middle East we are told)… Christmas is an American holiday, (We are also told by the We Are the Warriors of Merry Christmas),that it was some how written in the Constitution, we are reminded, when General Jesus Christ sailed the Potomac River as he chose George Washington to become President, and said to him to put in my birthday in that document! The Founding Fathers came to this land we are preached to by such Pay to Pray luminaries as Jerry Falwell Jr/Pat Robertson/Franklin Graham and Joel Osteen (Yeah, I know Joel is the nice one of the lot, he doesn’t use fire and brimstone to hate the Gays, he just smiles that dimpled grin and assures the Gays that Jesus still loves you but not as much, if you would only stop loving sinners of your same sex, and oh yeah, not as much he loves himself some Joel Osteen and his gilded Palaces of worship)

Now, some of these Evangelical Conservative Southern Christian Baptists, understand that the Old Middle East of Joseph Mary, Mark, Peter was not like this New Middle East of ISIS, Al Aqaeda, Boko Haram; the Old Middle East OF COURSE had mostly whitish looking citizens Jesus Christ was WHITE for God sakes, he took after his Father…, (Okay maybe he looked tan, but honestly who doesn’t get a little sun burnt in the desert). AND these same group of We Learned All We Need Know From the Bible Crusaders, also, UNDERSTAND, that Jesus’s Great Uncle Kris Kringle (aka Santa), is definitely WHITE. (The Mall of America must have been taken over by a Black Lives Matter, renegade group as they had the UnAmerican, let alone UnChristian gaul to use a BLACK Santa…(For sure there will be be some coal in someone’s Christmas stocking, AND NOT the clean kind of coal Mitch McConnell tells us they mine Kentucky, either!)

And as we are, a collective citizenry of America it is imperative, to push back against those bigots who hate Christians by insisting this is not a Christian nation… (That silly rumor that a division between church and state actually make religious freedom stronger…God knows, that denying other’s their freedom for your own insecurities is what God wants) we watch the majority of self defined Evangelical Conservative Southern Christian Baptist Republican politicians turn their BACKS, their CONSCIENCES, their HEARTS and COMPASSION against the millions of lives tortured, raped and murdered in Aleppo Syria, which was and still is in the Middle East. The same gang of Republican goons who swoon and sway everything Jesus, have ignored and still ignore, the simple fact, that the sons and daughters the creations of human lives, that Jesus’s dad supposedly created, and those same individuals whom Jesus himself was sent to Earth to guide and protect, are being slaughtered, in Jesus’ back yard. So to all of you Evangelical Conservative Southern Christian Baptists, have yourself a Merry Christmas!

Hey

HEY: CBS/NBC/ABC/CNNFOX/MSNBC yes even you PBS, when might you catch on to the fact that a VERY unqualified individual is about to become president of the United States? When are you finally going to hire some real journalists, not ex-congress people, or models, or conspiracy theorists or, quiz show hosts, or used car sales people to report on the facts…you know the facts that actually contain truth? When might it dawn on you, FOX that although Trump permits you top kiss his ring, once his bud Putin takes over, even your anarchist bent will be too liberal!

And you MSNBC, stop providing the pals of Trump the platform to pretend they are investigative reporters when all they do is prevent any real discussion of of evidence to be presented. And CNN, come on, you once were THE Cable network where Walter Cronkite like reporters could be heard and seen. Now all you try and do is be the first to bring on the bling and that ever so un resonating sound byte. NBC, are you without all scruples and just in it for the bottom line, there should be no doubt that The Apprentice is really a version of Trump auditioning for Putin! Oh yeah, ABC, milk toast, none of your network stars have any idea how to fend off the emptiness of KellyAnn. And really CBS, always pretending there is a softer side to anything Trump!

The Democrat Party leadership are without spines and backbone, so it is hard to count on them to try and do anything but find raise, and set out dire warnings. The quiet is deafening from the majority of Senators (thank goodness of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie). The House of representatives is almost absent in their actions or is it inactions. When will those who seem to have the ability to wield some power, learn from the pro’s of disinformation, the GOP and begin an assault on our senses. Be bold, be brazen, brag about the good and make sure the public know that the boogyman is anyone in the Republican Party parsing their words that the CIA is the bad guy and not the Russians.  The thing is CBS/CNN/NBC/ABC/FOX/MSNBC AND PBS…and the Democrat leadership, we are running out of time, and SOON, ALL of you with your BREAKING NEWS/OR DIRE WARNINGS THAT IF YOU DON’T DONATE NOW…will all be out of business. I would cry for all of you, but when your inaction affects you, I will be spending the time fighting for my freedoms.

Coup de grâce

Coup de grâce: an action or event that serves as the culmination of a bad or deteriorating situation. a final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal.

I became fully aware that the events of the world DID indeed impact me, the day I sat and watched Walter Cronkite explain to all Americans the FACTS we had to understand and confront regarding the Cuban embargo, February/1962. Mr Cronkite, removed his glasses, almost leaning in toward the camera as if he was about to step inside our living room. He had sweat dripping from his forehead, he wiped his eyes as if a tear or two would stain his vision of looking into our hearts. I remembered he choked, and as he did, my mother let out a sigh, and my father always, the rock of my family, sat back in his chair away from the television set, as if he was protecting himself from some evil monster. America, and the world were on the brink of something always considered a possibility, but never a reality, the World War III. 

My understanding of the world around me, and my importance in helping to shape the politics of this nation as best as one voice could continued. It was the speech Richard Nixon gave to the nation, insisting he was NOT a crook, nor did he know ANYTHING regarding the break in of the WaterGate Tower offices of the DNC. In 1974, Mr Nixon resigned his office in disgrace as the facts of the WaterGate conspiracy danced around his presidency like the winds of a tornado. Not only was this an unprecedented historical moment but in discovering the crookedness by which Nixon operated we also became aware of his enemies list. A list of people who, like the days of the Republican Senator Joe McCarthy, were deemed enemies of the state to be disposed of.

Both the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Watergate Break In were events this nation had never experienced in our American history. To have nuclear weapons in the Western Hemisphere directed at our shores a direct act of aggression by the Russians…to have the president of the US, compel and direct a break in of an American political party…Now, we are witnessing the same actions of aggression toward our democracy, by a president elect co-conspiring with the Russians, the president elect’s political party covering up those treasonous acts toward our democratic process. The Republicans manipulating changes in the governance of this nation with no mandate by the people. We have seen the potential for disaster and death from our past…and somehow we are permitting it to repeat!

NOW

We are in the throws of a revolution, regulated, and run by the Republicans. We are eye witnesses to the overthrow of democracy in this nation, not by a foreign power but by Republican politicians, whose disregard for country is so devious and destructive that it has permitted the Russian government to dictate the rules of governance in the United States. This IS the time to ask yourself, where was I when fascism came to America, what did I do to try and stop it….This IS the time to no longer worry about the future but to protect the present. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have declared war on the citizens of the United States by blocking any attempt of a bipartisan search into what possible collusion Trump’s campaign and the Russian government might have had during the 2016 presidential campaign.The Majority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House are participating in an act of treason, and ALL citizens of the US should demand they be removed from office.

The Democrat Party leadership with the President, should intervene with every Constitutional legality they have at their disposal. This is no longer about Trump being a joke, a jerk but IT is now about the anarchists in the Republican Party providing an illegal election to take place. THIS IS THE TIME we must stop the treasonous participation of and by the Republican Party. Resist, Now, before it is too late!

more outrage

The times we complained that any true American should stand while the National Anthem is playing, stating that all symbols defining America should be respected…The outbursts of anger as athletes took to their knees, pissing us off beyond belief…Those who have scorned at the idea of burning the Flag, stating that our Military has risked their lives so we could proudly wave, its red, white and blue…The cries for lock ‘em up, send them to some other country…The Million Moms at the ready to destroy anything Disney if it showcases, an independent female character, characters of the same sex as heroes…The apoplexy when a TV commercial demonstrates that interracial couples, or families of single moms are also typical American families…insisting that THOSE people are not the average American family…

Where is the national outrage, the call for Republicans to join Democrats to fight for the American value of democracy as we witness the hacking toward our electoral process, the hijacking of voting machines, the intrusion of partisan politics by a Federal Agency’s director. Where are all of the Committee meetings, the Republicans gladly enjoin, asserting they are performing the people’s will. Where is the true spirit of America as we watch the destruction of democracy, piece by piece fall like the melting glaciers in the Arctic?

Each day, we discover the nightmares becoming real, the dreams we never wanted to sleep with. We ALL must respond to the affront to democracy that the leadership within the GOP, the Trump organization, the FBI Director and foreign governments  have perpetrated against this nation. This IS about ALL of us, and ALL of us need to fix it NOW. We must RESIST!

Letter D

Today’s blog is brought to you by the letter D! D, as in Deceitful Determination to Determine absolutely nothing. D, as in Democracy is Done, and in Doing so, in a Devious way, Comrade Mitch McConnell, will Decide to never, ever, really Dig in, and Divulge the truth regarding Russia’s intervention in Decimating our Democracy.  Doing so, or in Comrade McConnell’s version of (Doing nothing),he will continue to Destroy the office of President, and Delegitimize, the system of electing politicians in the USA. Disgusting as it may seem, for Comrade McConnell and his Divisive array of Republican Congress Buddies, to not assist in seeking resolution of the hacking of American politics by a foreign adversary, Comrade McConnell will still Delight as his wife Elaine Chao becomes Secretary of Labor, Roe V Wade will be overturned, and Religious Bigotry (oops I mean Freedom) will provide the outlet for any homophobe to NOT hire anyone identified as LGBT, or serve them, and even fire them for you know, being Gay! 

D, is also for Douchebag, a Dreary Despot of a man, Comrade McConnell, who Desperately fears true Democracy and has from Day one Demonized President Barack Obama. D, is also for the Dark Money, the mysterious but Deliciously tempting pay for play, politicians, who, like Comrade McConnell, who never have to Divulge their sources, but can keep Depositing as their Dark Monied Donors, call the shots. Comrade McConnell will become Delirious with his hidden treasures as his puppet strings are pulled by Devious men who are Determined to Debunk Democracy.  How does that funeral Dirge go…Dum, Dum, Da Dum…

decency left

Little Senator Marco Rubio, the guy who lifted up his leg to pee on the state of Florida, stating that he had no time for his senatorial responsibilities, while running for president, the guy who was re-elected and then provided his state of Florida with a huge dump of poo, and Senator Ted Cruz, the guy who Jesus not only spoke to his wife and father about running for president, but who has been self anointed as the next Messiah, both had hissy fits, a few weeks back when President Obama sent a eulogy correspondence to the country of Cuba regarding Fidel Castro’s death. Both senators were greatly annoyed, appalled, and had apoplexy, that an American president could embrace a dangerous sinister Communist like Castro.  Both men however have been ABSOLUTELY silent regarding Trump and McConnell’s embrace of anything Putin. Nothing to see here folks, because as is the mantra of the current crop of Republicans, if we do it, it doesn’t count.

The House of Representatives, has spent millions of dollars, trying to burn that wicked witch Hillary, blaming her for everything from teen pregnancies, to the creation of Islam, being an original member of ISIS, to just being a nasty lady. Whether it was Trey Gowdy, who admitted he had changed some of the original correspondences regarding Benghazi to cast a dimmer light on Hillary, just to reassure the people carrying the wood and matches she needed to burn, to Jason Chaffetz, who used the Breibart and Drudge reports as facts to claim Hillary was indeed a Communist agent or even a member of the Royal Saudi family, even calling in Alex Jones for a touch more of conspiracy. And now when the CIA has with certainty provided the evidence that Trump and his minions have conspired with the Russians, both Rep’s Gowdy and Chaffetz insist that America is tired of all these committee meetings and the House of Representatives must do the people’s work and save this nation. One more reminder of the hypocrisy, that has become synonymous with the GOP.

Our democratic society has been torn and tattered. The foundation of this nation has been rotted away. We have a very modest bit of humility left to distinguish our ideals and values from the tyrants and dictators of the world. And yet, we find ourselves with one political party either sponsoring witch hunts, denying one person one vote, disenfranchising large demographics of this nation, and permitting the interference of our elections, without any hard pushback. What is going on. This is AMERICA, have we no more decency left?  

TERMITES

A mansion, stately, defined by its character, its trimmings the luxuries and classy furnishings. There are old oak trees standing guard, keeping the secrets safe and sound of this place once called home to many a family. People walk by the structure, dreaming of one day owning this place, demonstrating to the world around them, just how successfully far they have come in their lives. This mansion is set back a bit from the road, as if it was and island, traversing to its front door seems welcoming, but one must do so with great caution, as there are signs posted beware of the guard dogs, and as you come closer to the picturesque gilded windows you seem certain that someone is peering though a camera watching your every mood. Ah the mysteries this house proposes to your mind, ah, the opportunities this house suggests, with its many rooms, ah the sanctuary as it sits comfortably enticing you to take a peek, and maybe make it yours.  What a perfect place you think, how much better life might feel living there.

A few weeks later, you decide to walk by this mansion, you need a pick me up, a positive feeling of the possibilities of your life, living in a place like this. This is the home, that all other dwellings must compete with, in your mind, as to the kind of place to meet your goal. You arrive, waiting hoping to find one more unique feature of this mansion, playing that game in your head, I wish I knew the stories of that room, that yard….but when you get to the mansion, you see men with hard hats, construction trucks, there is a flurry of people using tools that look as if they are for destruction…what is going, you inquire (After all this IS your dream home, and shouldn’t they confer with you first). The manager of the working people, says one word, TERMITES…then he adds, don’t let the place fool you, it is ready to fall in on itself…the owners never cared much about the inside of the house…so the TERMITES had a field day. You look, and you sigh, wondering just how stupid these people must have been.

The Russians in hopes of maintaining their economy based on oil, understanding that fame and fortune are both the oxygen and blood that keep Trump alive. Knowing that Mitch McConnell and his GOP cohorts who have tried their hardest to eliminate one person one vote form of democracy. Realizing that that bigotry and bullying are key factors of attaining power. Very sure that that President Obama is a true believer in fair and just…the Russians have become like TERMITE queen, and have used the leadership of the GOP to become their workers; quietly, cunningly, eating away at the electoral system of our mansion, the United States. It seems this house, our home, is ready to implode, very soon! 

Silence and death

Mitch McConnell the Majority Leader (Kentucky) of the Senate and his second in command Senator John Cornyn (Texas) have given brief comments regarding the Russian hacking of the American election describing it in such eloquent sound bytes as, “a nothing to see here moment, or this isn’t new so why get upset now” issue. 

We have a teeny, tiny crack of open space, in that preverbal window of opportunity, to try and salvage the last vestiges of democracy. The large chunks of the democratic process drifted into the sea of hypocrisy, like the melting icebergs, when corporations became people, and somehow the term dark money as in something like the Death Star, became an all too familiar term used by wealthy donors to buy favors from their puppet on a string politicians. Democracy was already on its disappearance act when gerrymandered districts were created by both parties to dissuade a minority vote, and to top off the vanishing act, restrictive Voter ID Laws, limited pre voting and day of voting polling hours and the coup de tau in saying so long farewell to democracy was actual act of feigning innocence, learning nothing from the Gore V Bush election.

The GOP never plays fair, they understand that their policies, and product NEVER really were established for the EVERYMAN or WOMAN of America. The GOP plays dirty, and they also understand that they will win by playing dirty, because in nine out of ten incidents of dirty, grimy politics, the Dems have played dead. So it seems, President Obama knew about the Russian involvement, he did his Dems best asking for bipartisan agreement…Mitch McConnell, knowing all about the Russians, claimed there was NO THERE, THERE, and if the President made a mountain out of this already Everest sized attack on the American democratic system, Mitch McConnell would sic the press on Mr Obama insisting that if trump lost, it was because of UN-NECESSARY rough play by the DEMS. As a Dem in good standing,President Obama and the spineless leadership of the Dems tucked their tails under their butt and let the GOP call the rest of the election shots! 

We have a mili-second to save the remains of a once proud system of inclusion, we ALL should be screaming, yelling and insisting that we fix it NOW. Tomorrow is way too late!

Provocation

We used to call them traitors…or spies…or enemies of the state…or accomplices…NOW we can refer to them either as the GOP Leadership or the Mitch McConnell gang…you know, the people who conspire for the enemy, permitting the enemy to sabotage our democracy. Remember when the Republicans boasted only they could keep America safe, and ONLY they could defend our blessed Democracy…remember how the GOP loved a good war, stating that wars made us safe…remember when the GOP swore that they knew how to fight the enemy better than the Dems…NOW, the GOP fights with the enemy as they declare war on our democratic process…like Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan who both knew early on that the Russian were hacking the emails and using that information as disinformation, similar to what FOX NEWS does, but on a larger and more deadly scale.

Communist dictators, and Sectarian dictators like to use the word PROVOCATION whenever they deem an act by a foreign power to be an insult to the integrity of THEIR Homeland. The Iranian’s will send a fleet of armed water craft and aim their weaponry at the US ships…The Chinese will arrest some innocent American citizen in protest…The Russians will just send a whole brigade of atomic powered tanks to the boarders of NATO and Russia as retaliation…but what do we do when a foreign power acts in PROVOCATION against the US. The president politely invites the Republican leadership and Democrat leadership to find a bipartisan approach to talk about the issue. In the case of the Russian hacking of our Election process, HOWEVER, Mitch McConnell and his shyster, lying cronies decide there ain’t much to see with this PROVOCATION, since the only one being served the hack are the Dems. So nothing is said or done.

FBI Director Comey, was also invited to the lets discuss the newest Russian PROVOCATION, he had the information, and he like Mitch McConnell and the GOP leadership, said nothing. Mitch McConnell warned President Obama that any discussion regarding the facts of the hack would make it seem partisan, and in America partisan comments around election time are totally anti-God Bless America. So silence about the Russian hacking, purposely favoring Trump falls gently over the nation…BUT somehow, FBI Director Comey decides that discussing a NON ISSUE like old Hillary emails is not partisan and assists the Russians in tilting the campaign toward Trump. Traitors/Enemies of the State/Co-Conspirators/Comrades’ in Arms…just call them the GOP, it is a lot easier 

Michigan, Ohio

MICHIGAN! It seems the Republican controlled state government is in the business of poisoning its youth via lead in the water, supplying its education system with asbestos in the classrooms, and NOW alleging that even if the voting machines were deficient and not working, the total count in the 2016 election stands correct. MICHIGAN, where the healthy life of its citizens (especially the low income and people of color is too expensive to maintain, and the idea of democracy if it favors the Democrats just not necessary. HOW are we letting this ALL transpire. Poison in the water, poison in the public schools, voter fraud perpetrated by the government’s official electors, and all we are supposed to is JUST WATCH. The Flint residents are still without safe water, the public schools located in minority neighborhoods filled with asbestos and rotting pipes, and the majority of voting machines in Detroit were inadequate to begin with, or suddenly, problems arose as too many people of color began to vote, so the MICHIGAN electors decided to just do their own anticipated tally. 

Where is the outrage from all those Evangelicals in Ohio who just passed the Heartbeat law, prohibiting abortions after the first month and a half, who still refuse to pass a bill providing families within the poverty level to purchase healthy meals…where is the outrage by the Evangelicals who want to eliminate Roe V Wade, you know the CHRISTIANS who cry that life is SPECIAL…is it not SPECIAL once outside of the womb, or if it is of color, or living in poverty. Kids will be dying of a very preventable cancer in MICHIGAN, of starvation in Ohio…and ALL you Evangelicals remain SILENT?

And President Obama, American terrorists have attempted to pry democracy from within this nation, they have altered voting machines, and created their results, where is the Justice Department, NOW, before we have Trump in office. The same Trump who NOW insists that American Intel is just politicizing the Russian involvement. Where is the outcry from the Republican Hawks, who will defend American pride through the last life of anyone but the kids of the wealthy! Our already ailing democracy is ready for CODE BLUE, President Obama, PLEASE, while we still have a decent human being in the White House, send in the MEDICS NOW!

Potions

The newest potion from the propaganda kettle, used to feed the self pitying parade of peons, The Tyrants for Trump, is the idea that millionaires and billionaires are the best friend of the poor, retched, uneducated, and ever so victimized white race of America. Trump, has said so himself, justifying the nomination of at least a half dozen m/billionaires to his cabinet positions. Just like Trump, these one percenters are all about making America great, with one caveat of course…FOR THEMSELVES. Speaking in the language of Con Artistry Trump has declared that the really wealthy men and women he has nominated are giving up their well paid private business salaries just to help the homeless, the laborer, the elderly, the sick, the real Americans who have had their own wallets opened to the sky waiting for that TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMY to start, peeing all over them…or as George HW Bush called it Voodoo Economics. We are to be jubilant, joyous, astonished and amazed that out of the kindness of THEIR hearts, Trump’s cabinet appointees, will work tirelessly to undo the yeoman job President Obama and his cabinet had achieved, and prove once again, that not only are Republicans eager to start wars in foreign lands, but the GOP is ready to wage a fierce economic war against…THE MAJORITY OF THE FOOLS who voted Trump into office! The whites who waged war against the black man in the White House, will be the first casualties, but they will continue to be the ignorant fools and most likely think it is OBAMA, somehow living in Kenya making the economy fail. Oh yeah, and if you are not one of these self pitying, hate filled, ignorant of fact individuals and still voted for TRUMP, what is your excuse? 

Carbon Monoxide

As Trump continues to pretend that the office of president is nothing more than another The Apprentice reality show…as Hillary is at the 2.7 million lead in the popular votes… as the Republican Party begins to dismantle anything Obama, anything fair or equal the Intelligencia of the Democrat Party debates the merits of Resistance as it relates to the election of 2016. As the GOP makes up new rules of governance…permitting individuals with very little allegiance to the American way,  but more so for their own bottom lines, to become policy makers…refuses to remember their own resistance to keep America great…the Elite of the Democrat Party fuss and muse insisting that…Trump really hasn’t imprisoned anyone yet, he hasn’t initiated a Trump Youth movement yet, he hasn’t even become THE PRESIDENT yet …furrowing their brows, the same Elite suggest, lets wait and see…aren’t we just a bit too pissed off at the moment to react…aren’t we acting a little too brash…As Trump and his cohort of henchmen and women, continue to lie, play the media as the unprofessional ratings hounds they have become…the Democrat Capitalism will remain alive and glorious and I will continue to benefit from it, Upper Crust…pooh/pooh the real danger of Trump stating that after all this IS still America…Jared Kushner IS Jewish so can Trump’s campaign really be anti-semitic…the Constitution states clearly a divide between church and state so what can Pence and his Holy Rollers really change…Social Security WILL never be privatized, and Gee whiz, Paul Ryan IS a good Orthodox Catholic…and besides it IS only four years, what IS the big deal!  

As the con game is playing out in front of us, as the snake oil is being touted as a cure for what never really ailed America, as the Democrats, in their usual manner, hem and haw, NEVER aware of the signs planted on their backs, by the GOP, which read “Kick me”, or “I am with stupid.”, A very savvy and sophisticated propaganda machine is plowing the fields of dissent, misinformation, lies and phobia’s. As all of this is happening too few who know better are alarmingly silent…it is the kind of silence that kills, jus like carbon monoxide…lulling you into a deep sleep, then a coma and eventually death!

Maybe it was

Maybe it was…Growing up in the 50’s understanding via television that Amos and Andy, looked like whites, dressed in their suits had some kind of menial job, but were something to laugh at, because as much as they might want to be like white folk, they were not…OR when my father in the 50’s after having years of experience as a Military Police Officer and then a Beat Cop, was told since he was Jewish the only promotion he was entitled to was Sergeant of Police…OR viewing in the movies that at the most there were two kind of villains; the shyster lawyer, always Jewish, who would rip you off blind, or the homosexual who either was killed immediately because he was ‘light in the loafers”, or the self loathing homosexual at the ready to commit suicide…OR the evil spinster, the lady who wanted to live life without the comfort of a man, or the gal endowed with large breasts because she craved men…OR the white guys who played Charlie Chan, the white men who placed black face, or the maids, butlers and buffoons who were there to step and fetch for anyone not of color.

Maybe it was…working in Cleveland Georgia at a Jewish camp in the early 70’s going into town for our day off with a counselor who happened to be black, walking in to a Family Style restaurant and having almost the entire group of patrons hush up, the silence almost deafening, and the black counselor telling all us white folks, at least they can’t see a Jew…OR tutoring at an all black elementary school in the East Hills of Pittsburgh, being invited to a thank you dinner, only to find ourselves intimidated from some of the locals who didn’t like our coming into their neighborhood because we thought we were better than they…OR trying to hide what I thought was the awful truth, that I might be Gay, and hoping that no one would ever call me a Queer…OR insisting to my college friends as a Jew I have very little in common with Woody Allen…and won’t Jew them down.

Maybe it was working the extra week at the end of  summer camp, with kids having disabilities, and the first time I did so, thinking I am doing them such a favor, poor kids with such bad luck…OR being told in my highs school that some kids from other neighborhoods were only kids of mill hunks, and bad news, thinking my life was of course better than theirs…OR being a Jewish kid, living in an affluent neighborhood, but living within the budget of a Pittsburgh COP…

I am not sure what it was, BUT whatever seeped into my psyche, permitted me to understand that difference, IS only scary if you continue to ignore the real lives of those we deem as different. I have gleaned, from my experiences insight from people I once considered as OTHERS, OR actually being the OTHER. THESE lessons stay with me, and encourage me to fight the Trump Campaign of bigotry…I will NOT permit the ignorance, the arrogance, the lack of human kindness from continuing to make my America GREAT! I proudly will resist the bogus bull shit which has become Trump’s version of America! I am my brother and sisters keeper, as they keep me.

Roach Motel

Why do we permit KellyAnne Conway to play her games with the media, pretending that Trump is the only con artist living in the shiny gold dome. We wait, an alas, another Tweet, another controversy on potential Cabinet selections. We pretend that Trump alone is smart enough to be that dumb. It ain’t so, you Liberals/Progressives/Dems…it is a concerted effort, just like the card shark who makes you look away as he places the ace on top of the deck. It ain’t magic, its intentional. Keep the media asking the questions the Trump anarchists want to be asked…point your bony fingers at ‘em and all the while Trump’s taxes, his families influence, his relationship with Putin, his uneducated, ignorance of every thing presidential CONTINUES. And no one EVER gets an answer. So, we as pleasant patrons of conversation, move on, and the Trump anarchists move ahead.

We ALL know by now that anyone representing the Trump anarchists WILL NOT answer a direct questions…they can’t because so many lies have been perpetuated, ANY answer will prove their hypocrisy. The THING IS they could care less about truth…we know that yet, somehow the media thinks that they (THE MEDIA), have to play by some rules when in effect the Media is being played for saps, jerks and jokers. Hillary is winning by almost 2.5 million votes, we don’t know the mental or physical health of Trump, his wife and son’s living arrangements will cost the tax payers at least $1million a month…and all we do is slam Trump for his Tweets. KellyAnn Conway is smart but swarmy, she understands that Trump supporters love when their idol is called names, she places the bait and just like the roaches the media and the public follow the trail we check into the roach motel and the Trump anarchists continue to pillage our democracy.

STOP being on the offense, BEGIN the defense…who cares about what trump does next, when we still don;’t know ANYTHING about his taxes, his businesses, his physical health, his blind trust…STOP playing the games by the Trump anarchists rules, they CHEAT, hey LIE, they STEAL, and they hate DEMOCRACY! 

NOW WHAT

Dear Congresswoman Pelosi,

Congratulations on your election to remain as the Minority Leader for the Democrat Party. NOW WHAT? I have been an ardent supporter of your work in the Congress, watching you defend the rights of all Americans seeking equality and justice regardless of the usual race, religion, sexuality etc. qualifications. I know the work you have successfully completed providing many of the minority demographics our freedoms, and I applaud you for all that effort and energy. But NOW WHAT? I have been a life-long Democrat, following the inspiration of my parents. I have learned that as a part of a greater community I must understand compromise, I must accept the rights of others to disagree, and I sometimes must fight my ass off to make sure my point is heard, and not only that UNDERSTOOD. NOW WHAT Congresswoman Pelosi, now that we understand just how devious the Trump campaign has been, how unprofessional and inadequate our Media has been in calling them out, how cunning and short sided the GOP in the House and Senate have been. NOW WHAT when hypocrisy and lies are keystone to deciding which laws count and which are just up for the highest bidder by the Republicans. NOW WHAT Congresswoman Pelosi, with all due respect, what is your plan of action to spearhead a movement by the Democrats/Progressives/Liberals? We all know that Trump has in his organization a potpourri of White Supremacists/Racists/Misogynists/Xenophobes/Anti-Semites. We ALL know that he has the support of the Evangelical Christians who believe as long as you hate the Homo and the Vagina, you are a better Christian and a better Christian is the only true American. NOW WHAT?

I have pledged my Resistance to the inequality and fascist leaning policies of Trump and his cronies, but I sit in Los Angeles at my computer, and feel my one voice alone makes little difference. But your voice Congresswoman Pelosi, can and should carry far more weight. So I ask again, NOW WHAT? Too often I have watched the Democrats spineless and caving in. Too afraid to brag about the good stuff, always ready to admit defeat. The GOP fight hard, and at times it seems that the Democrats hardly fight. NOW WHAT Congresswoman Pelosi,you wanted the job as Minority Leader…well WE ARE the minority, so NOW WHAT?