The long hallway

In many a monster movie, almost with 5 minutes left till the end of the movie, we finally are viewing a scene where the absolute horrible creature seems to be beaten. The victim, bloody and bruised, with just a brief smirk of victory on his or her face, faces the camera understanding that good may have actually triumphed over evil. The camera starts moving backwards leaving us with what looks like a long stretch of hallway, the only path to the front door, the final exit from this house of horrors. The audience, many with bated breath, fearful that if even they the audience, make a sound somehow the victim WILL NOT make it down the hall and out of the doorway to freedom. Step by step, which seems an eternity, the victim sways, perhaps trips, trying to find balance and we watch as the camera pans onto the victims hand touching the door knob, the last and final obstacle to freedom…and then somehow, even burnt, or blackened with acid, battered or bruised, the monster, the creature makes one more attempt, finding life to ruin the life of the victim YET one more time. In a scary movie, I am most satisfied when the credits begin to roll, and some spooky, somber music gives way to a melody with some lighter notes. Then I know, most likely the monster is dead and good and try once again to survive.

Today’s news seems GREAT, finally some people are being found guilty of treasonous acts toward this nation and its citizens. Be it money laundering, bribery, theft of emails, collusion with a foreign government, for me it translate to anarchy, treason and try enemies of the state. But like that victim in the horror movie, there is still that long walk toward the doorway, to the door knob, to opening that door and walking out into freedom. Since the Civil War, this nation has not found itself governed by politicians who have placed self, and party before country. Truth is considered fake, there are little to few checks and balances throughout the three branches of government, and a small base of bigots or billionaires who hate this nation have more power over it governance then the real majority of Americans.

I of course and happy that the law so far has reared its head from the sand, but knowing the monsters living in the White House, and their pack of creatures supporting those monsters, my celebration is far from true delight. We still have a Republican majority in Congress, refusing to do the peoples work. We still have a bunch of wealth Republican donors who refuse to work about anyone but themselves, and we have a mentally ill person sitting in the Oval Office, who has no sense of reality. We the American people are the victim and it seems to me we still have a long walk to the front door, to the door knob to freedom!

On Monday

We are promised that some time on Monday, a bit of news will be made, and perhaps a sign of lawfulness will find some footing in a big pile of quicksand. Names abound, of the potential guilty traitors, suggestions simmer as to motives, and all fingers point to anyone Trump. I wonder, however if tomorrow will be like the final episode of Dallas, when it was discovered that the entire season was nothing but a dream.  Oh the anger, oh the pissiness, oh the frustration to find out that all of the mayhem, murder and mystery never really happened. We as the audience were tricked into believing a fantasy of truth, a facade of foolishness, an in effectual flim-flam of fake.

Each day, that Trump seems to get away with all kinds of broken laws, each day he demeans Obama which in turn demeans the freedoms and choices of most Americans, each day Trump lies, then cover that lie with another lie, then is supported by a cast of cartoon characters who spin their own lies, each day that happens, seems to me to be nothing but a nightmare. I want to wake up one day and like JR from Dallas, find that the last many months was nothing but a dream.

The Republicans still wish to hide or hinder the finding of facts. The Republicans, relying on the wealth from their donors, rebuke any attempt to make America better. The Republicans understand cheating, gerrymandering, lying, and hypocrisy are the only ways they can keep their power, so they TOO assist Trump in destroying democracy. On Monday, maybe, hopefully, perhaps, God willing, please, oh please, lets begin to witness the demise of paranoid, narcissistic, Putin puppet administration and find our way back to honest and fair. But this IS America and so far in the battle of good VS bad, America is on the losing end!

Macular Degeneration

Macular Degeneration is caused by the deterioration of the central portion of the retina, the inside back layer of the eye that records the images we see and sends them via the optic nerve from the eye to the brain. The retina’s central portion, known as the macula, is responsible for focusing central vision in the eye, and it controls our ability to read, drive a car, recognize faces or colors, and see objects in fine detail. (AMDF),

This Saturday early in the morning I had a client to train. The personal training gym I use is about a 20 minute walk from my home, a straight shot walking west on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. The Avenue used to be filled with Mom and Pop stores, but with the gentrification, greed and gluttony LA has discovered, the Mom and Pop Stores have all been replaced with designer clothing shops, 5 star eateries, and of course coffee and tea boutiques. The part of Melrose Avenue I take, that leads to my gym is such a to be seen place, that most often I have to pass groups of paparazzi waiting for some star to emerge carrying a $10,000 handbag or at least a $20 Protein Shake. I was kind of happy, however, walking to the gym bright and early this Saturday, both because, the temperature, was in the 60’s (a touch of Pittsburgh fall), and usually Melrose is an empty void of annoying people avenue. I had forgotten that there was one Chi-Chi-Coffee Boutique open early in the morning. One out of a dozen, I was certain no movie stars, no wanna be’s and no me first’s would darken my path to get to the gym.

There is a major boulevard running horizontal to Melrose Avenue, called San Vicente. Even in the early dawn, cars speed down the boulevard trying to avoid stopping for the red light and those darn stragglers trying to cross on a yellow light. As I was approaching San Vicente I noticed two younger people walking toward me. One was on the phone, the other texting, with holding large cups of coffee from the Chi-Chi Coffee Boutique. Being in a good mood, I decided rather then NOT move out of their way, and NOT give them my patented passive aggressive sigh, I would, feeling good, MOVE out of their way. It was then, that I also noticed an individual appearing from seemingly nowhere carrying two large trash bags, trying to maneuver a rolling suitcase, and holding onto what seemed to be a few pieces of clothing. This person definitely wanted to cross San Vicente before the light changed and before anyone was speeding down the boulevard.

And that is when the person texting walked into the trash bags, causing her to lose her grip on her cup of coffee. The guy on the phone just side stepped the person carrying the trash bags, but in doing so pushed his friend causing him to drop his phone and cup of coffee. The woman began to freak out, calling the individual with the trash bags a bitch, and useless. She then demanded that he individual with the trash bags and the suitcase and the handful of clothing pay for her and her friends cup of coffee.  Feeling I needed to step in, now losing my sense of all is well with the world, I began to approach the scene of the coffee wars. The guy, noticing that I and a few other people were becoming alarmed at the screeching and foul language erupting from his friend. Grabbed the fallen phone, tugged his friend, actually yanked her and started telling her they were going across the street to get more coffee. As another woman and I approached the individual carrying the trash bags, trying to at least apologize for the behavior of these two assholes. The individual looked at the other woman and I and hissed. He then said, don’t touch me, I am not an animal. He gathered all of his stuff and crossed the street, on the red light. Macular Degeneration sometimes what we see, is really not there, or sometimes what we see is right in front of our faces, but we don’t know it. 

Similarities

For many reasons I had never been a fan of Ronald Reagan, and in fact I am very glad his era of selfish is history. But the thing regarding history is that it OFTEN times can repeat itself; and often the case when it does repeat itself, we foolish humans OFTEN times ignore the values from the first iteration to the next.

Has anyone noticed too many weird similarities between the Reagan and Trump? Both men were in the entertainment field, one a D list star and the other a D list reality wanna be. Reagan wanted us to believe that, “trickle down economics” actually fell to the poor, while providing a hearty handout to his wealthy friends. Trump has no idea about economics but pretends that cutting the amount of his taxes and those of Corporations and the 1% will somehow work this time. When it came to drugs we were told “Just say no”, and now with opioids we are being told “Just don’t start.” Both Reagan and Trump had a thing with walls, Reagan saying, “Tear down that wall, Mr Gorbachev, and Trump saying pay for that wall Mr Mexico!

And perhaps one the scariest similarities shared by Reagan and Trump is the question of their mental health. It seems the words Early Onset Alzheimers, were bandied about during Reagan’s term in office, and most recently, at first in a hush-hush kind of matter, and now gaining more public attention the words Early Onset Alzheimers are being shared by some GOP leadership and journalists. This all brings me even more angst, Reagan’s lack of understanding of the poor, the LGBT community, minorities, and the sense that trickle down actually did not trickle up. And in the final years of Reagan’s administration who actually was the Commander-In-Chief. And what if in fact Trump’s mental illness declines, who can stop him from placing his feeble fingers on the buttons able to blast a hole so large in this Earth that we all perish? 

Godzilla VS Mothra

Godzilla VS Mothra, Alien VS Predator, Michael Myers VS Freddie, Dracula VS Frankenstein used to make for a good evening of eating popcorn, sipping a soda watching movies where the bad guys battle the bad guys wondering who the Baddest Ass in town might be. Both monsters or creatures or madmen were no good, and somehow there was great glee in watching them out evil one another. Those were the movies, and no matter what or whom in the end, the movie was finished and as an audience member there was some gratification that the bad guy didn’t always win. And for me more importantly, the bad guys felt the what it was like to receive the same kind of punishment they often time dolled out to others. There is a new monster movie battle arising known as Bannon VS McConnell, its subtitle is called “They eat their own.” This one has the same potential as the other great Villain VS Villain flicks, but in this case, the problem is that the viewer may not just be the observer, but indeed the recipient of the same kind of punishment both bad guys give and receive.

The Republican Party, starting with their lack of respect toward President Obama and their refusal to willingly pass any legislation Obama initiated, decided a long time ago that the dark side, was a better way to usurp democracy. We all know as children, no matter where our family’s foundation flourished that once you play with the Devil, once you tempt the Devil, once you deal with the Devil, there is NO return from the Devil’s woeful powers. Be it the wealthiest of Republican donors, whose respect for their bottom line is greater than the silly words in the US Constitution…the hypocritical heathens claiming to be Evangelicals caring only for the rights of the unborn and the sanctity of heterosexual marriages (no matter how many the same person may have)…the professional politicians who make a living ripping off the average American, the GOP has embraced an ANTI-AMERICAN policy and in doing so has sided with wealthy Russian oligarchs, and sadly wealthy American oligarchs who find treason and anarchy silly words and actions.

Normally I would love to see Bannon VS MCConnell tear away at one another, leaving body parts strewn against Confederate Monuments. Normally I would love to see Republican blood splattered staining the White Robes and Hoods of the KKK. Normally I would love to see the GOP leadership walking around like Zombies carrying Tiki Torches with the Nazi’s. BUT, it seems as long as Trump is in the White House, the Republicans the majority in Congress, and the rest of the Republican Party fearful of its base. (One can only imagine Rod Serling writing episode after episode of the Twilight Zone called THE BASE) I as an innocent bystander will certainly pay the price for any battle within the Republican Party. With pure luck, so far I still have free speech, with pure luck so far, I am still breathing clean air. With pure luck so far Martial Law has not been declared. And with the purest or luck SOOOOOO far, we are not in the midst of Nuclear War. I love the idea of Bannon VS MCConnell, but honestly unlike any other horror movies, the resulting winner of this battle will not stop eating their own, they will next come for me! 

It's Family

Growing up in a Jewish household during the 1950s, I learned a whole lot of superstitions, and expectations, none of which, I realized in my later life, made any sense other than pleasing my older relatives who had arrived to the United States mostly from Romania. Thinking, as many a young kid might, that there is no dysfunction in YOUR home, there  was nothing weird when your Grandmother pooh-poohs the boggy man away, or tugs at her ears if someone should sneeze while you have just mentioned a dead relative, or throwing salt over your right shoulder if you heard terrible gossip, as to cleanse your own conscience. These were normal occurrences, ALL THE TIME!  I had also learned a Yiddish phrase…”A Schicker ist a Goy…” Translated into English it means that a Schicker (an alcoholic) is not a Jew but someone of the Gentile persuasion. Simple to say and easy to understand if your intent is to NEVER face the truth, especially if the truth is tossing and turning its head around a relative. Apparently EVERYONE knew that Uncle Sammy drank, and that Uncle Sammy drank a lot, but being Jewish, and a good Jewish man who went to shul and raised 5 children, Uncle Sammy’s problem with alcohol was not really a problem, and eventually it would go away. In Uncle Sammy’s situation the problem did disappear when Uncle Sammy died of sclerosis of the liver.

My cousin Yetta, called herself a lady of America. She arrived here at the age of 13, insisted on learning English, resisted an arranged marriage, and did not work in a shmutah factory or her parents neighborhood deli, but found a job with the government. My cousin Yetta, also believed that Schicker’s could be Jewish and would have none of this denial nonsense. Jews are not perfect she often would recite, when invited to a family function (her invitations grew less and less). It was at a family poker game, lots of peach schnapps and Scotch. Uncle Sammy was usually on his fifth drink, while everyone on their second.  I remember being scurried to the second floor of our house (pissed as hell because the scurrying happened right after the home made corned beef and right before my mothers home made pies and cakes) as cousin Yetta, shouted, “Enough Samuel, you are a drunkard, we all know it, and no one dares to speak it. Shame on you Samuel, you are a sick man and no dares to care for you. You are a drunkard!

A lot of what happened next was muffled as my little sister and I had to stretch our ears trying to hear the shouting going on, on the floor beneath us. It was my Aunt Celia, whose distinctive high pitched nasal sounding voice, was easy to identify. I remember exactly what she said. “So, he drinks, you think none of us know this. Sammy knows it, his wife Francis knows this. You think we are stupid.  What you don’t know, Yetta, is now that you have said he is a drunkard out loud, you have forced us to deal with it or ignore it. And for the sake of the family, it is best we ignore it. It may have been a few minutes later, as my little sister and I ran back to the safety of our bedroom. But we heard shouting and the then a dramatic slamming of the front door. From that moment on, whenever there was gathering of the family Uncle Sammy still drank, and no one said a word.

So Senator Flake and Senator Corker, tWo not so brave men, risking very little, announced to their Republican family our father is an IDIOT, A FOOL, A MORON AND INCOMPETENT. The family of Republicans gathered around these two men, not a word was said in agreement, well because its FAMILY!

Praying for Time

“These are the days of the open hand

They will not be the last

Look around now

These are the days of the beggars and the choosers” (Praying for Time-George Michael)

Released from his self made bonds of Party before Country, Senator Jeff Flake speaks out, speaks up, reminding us that silence is deadly. His conscience, so says Senator Flake has reached a limit, it wold either fade to black or explode, leaving particles of morals and values floating freely, but floating away from his soul. In the past Senator Flake had little trouble deciding that WRONG was RIGHT, that BAD was GOOD. But now that he removed the cuffs, the hard metal cuff placed upon his hands with his permission, Senator Flake begs for some kind of forgiveness, and warns us NOW that the monster has crept from his crypt, and the infection the monster is dressed in will certainly wipe away the glory days of this nations past.

“And it's hard to love, there's so much to hate

Hanging on to hope

When there is no hope to speak of

And the wounded skies above say it's much, much too late

Well, maybe we should all be praying for time” (Praying for Time-George Michael)

It has been nine months of an administration, each day within those moments of birth we had been promised by the talking heads, the leadership of a Political Party, and by loud voices of very small minded people, that something new this way comes, and something better will arrive. Give him time, he will change. He is different, thats okay, he said he would be DIFFERENT. Alternate Facts are better for truth, truth, if it hurts, must be avoided. Nine months, was that too long, too little , too late. So, like a coward, who finally has had enough, who knew from the beginning that his decision to remain silent was INCORRECT, decides to change his costume and become a hero. Senator Flake, where were you when “there was so much to hate”. Where were you when this nation began to fall into an abyss? Praying for time, sir, now that is all we have!

tinkle of tweets

A new tinkle of Tweets, some regurgitating topics not so old and some resulting in new insults and of course with less insight and lacking sensitivity. Hiding behind a flim flam of having eaten too many beans, the Tweeter-In-Chief farts away the early morning hours as might a brat who is just tired of playing with all of his new toys. Mocking, insinuating, foolish, and above all else immature, the Tweets continue and somehow have become a norm, a game of who has the man with tiny fingers decided is the NEW enemy. What is done regarding all of this as a nation, NOTHING, we either sit idly by, or as Bob Corker says the day care crew of the West Wing try to change the diapers and hopefully the direction of dialogue by Trump! Seriously! This guy who was hacked into office by the Russians continues to play out his paranoia, nestle into his narcissism, and acts as a bully playing by the only rules he knows which in a nation of rules have become dictated by Trump.

Today, the GOP, the Party for the Corporation, the Party that believes Trickle Down Economics work, the Party of puppets for wealthy donors, and perhaps the Party that Putin has lots and lots of blackmail at the ready to release is to meet with Trump regarding tax law overhaul, or better stated the “let them eat cake” tax plan. As good little worker bee’s most GOP Senators are pretending that there is NOTHING to see…just a few harmless Tweets , Tweets of course that the media ALWAYS takes out of context. Seriously! Never worrying about their Constituents, because many Congress people are either gerrymandered into office, or voter restriction laws have kept opposition voters from voting, the 51 GOP Senators just want a kumbaya moment hoping to screw the American public one more time, and please the guy with serious mental health issues.

There is a lot at stake here with regards to Americans living a Full Life, not just a day to day existence. From Medicare to Medicaid, from living wages to priority wages (which to pay, food, water, shelter, health care), from infrastructure to ending up like Puerto Rico the GOP are the deciding force in a nation no longer under the rule of checks and balances. All of this directed by the guy who only understands how to Tweet, and bully. Seriously, America this IS who we have become! 

come on already

Pretending they have the moral authority, because they ARE Republicans, the current members of Congress avoid any responsibility toward the deaths of four Navy Seals in Niger. Lamenting, and lingering on Benghazi, the same Republicans swore vengeance on Hillary and the Dems, insisting that America itself was stabbed in the heart when four non military citizens died. Get to the bottom of this shouted the GOP, and so they tried, and tried and tried, never proving anything. The proof however was the Republican majority vetoed any increase in security spending toward US Embassies thought out the world. And now, The Republicans are telling us that there is nothing to see in Niger, it was a bad plan, a mistake and honest to God no one is to blame. 

Pretending they have the moral authority, because they ARE Republicans, the conservative media is in a frenzy demanding that the Dems return every red cent that Harvey Weinstein donated. Ignoring the sexual harassment accusations against Trump, and trumps own bravado regarding his ability to touch women wherever and whenever he wants, plus the continuous accusations against Bill O’Reilly, the GOP Conservatives demand justice be delivered by returning the donations of Weinstein but somehow fall silent when asked about those who donated to Trump directly and those who were urged by O’Reilly to donate toward Trump. If he or she is a Progressive politically they must be punished for their indiscretions, if they are Conservative, it is up to Jesus to judge and forgive.

Come on Media People, Talking Heads, Wanna Be Journalists, sometimes there IS NOT ANOTHER SIDE of the argument. If it is a lie, call it a lie. If it is denying Freedom of Speech, call it that. If it is breaking a line between the once strong wall of Church and State, say so. If Jeff Sessions changes his story every time he speaks to the Congress, call him out on it. If Ivanka and Jared uses private email servers investigate them. If Mike Pence wants to hang homosexuals, ask him why. If Trump wants to end affordable health care ask him why he wants to see millions of dead people. There is no debate between right and wrong, good and bad, why do we permit discussion and debates to even happen. If it is news without facts call it Fake, If it is Fake news to begin with call out the liar to their face. Its time those of us who still have a conscience use it. The Republicans are savvy, they know the Dems want to always ride as the white knight saving the day, and will call out any flaw, in the ointment! The Dems shy away from confrontation like scared sheep running from the wolf. lets start biting back, and play by the same broken rules as the Republicans. COME ON ALREADY!

68 and a day

68 and a day, or as Joe tells me I have begun my 69th year (It is a good thing I really love him, because I KNOW I am just 68…yeah JUST 68 is hard to write, but its not JUST 69). Thank you to all of the friends and almost like family from Facebook who acknowledged my birthday, it does make a difference, and in this case difference is important. I remember when a year actually took forever. A school year, endless…a year until next summer vacation and eternity…the years to graduate from elementary school, an infinite amount of time…but then something happens to the time space element of the universe, and years become mere moments, and mere moments a flash in the brain causing one to say, did that happen. My almost 100 year old Aunt Meercy, wakes up every day and the first thing she tells the staff at her independent living apartment is “I thank God I am alive.” So here is to Aunt Meercy, and another year of my life!

Somewhere on my pendulum of birth to now, I have also realized that it is not just the living that matters, but how life is treated. At first it was more about my life and my close friends and family, but somewhere along the way, when I really began to understand that there is GOOD and BAD, I became adamant that life is about the quality, even for those I don’t know, or may ever meet. In the old days of the 50’s no matter what the crime the bad guy did the time. However way back then the assortment of bad guys ranged from the Colored Person, the Homosexual, the Jew, and occasionally the Lady who forced men on her. In the 60’s and 70’s there was some redemption for minorities, but if you were to be GOOD you were white, preferably middle class, had short hair, heterosexual (pretending to be happily married) and some sort of Christian. Then all hell broke loose and somehow we imagined a Trickle Down Economic Theory and it became almost MAN for himself. Through my 68 years and a day, I witnessed laws being passed by Congress to offer equal rights for most, but never really saw those laws embraced by all Americans. I sat at the edges of a Third World War during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and watched men I admired murdered because they believed in freedom for all. But all did not like that idea.

I am a part of history, and hopefully I have many more years of history in front of me. So somewhere in scheme of things I have decided that I will not be silent or accept the silence of others when in fact BAD tries to triumph over GOOD. I will raise my voice, not wait last minute as the Jews did in the Warsaw Ghetto, not sit silently as someone walks in front of my place in line, and never again close a closet door, because in opening it I might offend someone else. Here is to my new year, and to the people in my life, from long ago to today, and here is to always being LOUD and PROUD!

Republicans and other Losers

Trump is a loser, we know that, yet he he is a big winner as he goads the shit out of people with values, morals, a sense of American history, and a decent standard for what is right and what is wrong. I suppose any kind of attention is a soothing elixir for this idiot, and as long as there is controversy, and his name is mentioned in at least four of the five sentences, Trump remains the empty fool, but feels so full with attention. Frustrating as it is NOT to criticize Trump, it truly has become a waste of time, as nothing really changes in TrumpLand. Those who kiss his orange ass, still smile that orange glow as they pretend to believe that Trump is the victim. Those who paid for his rise to power, be they the Mercer Family or other 1% American Donors, care little about the state of this nation, but are going to live happily ever as they see their taxes cut, and regulations diminished so the 1% can continue to kill the Earth, and live of the labor of the common folk. And the guy who orchestrated the entire war on America, without the use of one nuclear weapon or ballistic missile, Vladimir Putin just sits back and watches his two puppets dance, Trump and the leadership of the Republican Party.

So now the GOP is almost in full euphoria mode because they are inches closer to providing a tax cut to the wealthy (their donors), while destroying any kind of livable life for the elderly, the ill, the poor, women, the LGBTQ community, People of Color. No more entitlements, the GOP shout, at least for anyone but the 1%. If you want to eat then afford it, if you want to remain healthy pay for it, if you need shelter, find it. The Government is not in the business of governing for the ordinary people, nope the Government is in the business of keeping professional politicians well plaid for and the Government is for the new kind of person which the Supreme Court deemed as Corporations.

Anger toward Trump is useless, he absorbs it, he thrives from it. Trump is the guy who gets away with anything he desires. He has never paid the price for any of his misdeeds, and it seems the way life is dragging on, he will continue to place blame elsewhere, and all we will get is a supposed debate…never ever finding resolve regarding Trump. Lets begin as a nation to act like termites, and start gnawing at the foundation upon which Trump even exists…the Republicans. Let berate, belittle, begin blaming them for permitting Trump to exist. I know it feels good to shrug a shoulder, sigh deeply, nod your head in a disparaging manner, raise your middle finger regarding Trump. But lets make the GOP suffer the same consequences as we do. Maybe we actually have a chance for change by doing that!

Inept

Chief of Staff John Kelly never wanted to discuss his personal loss, he never wanted to share with the USA his feelings on the death of his son…and honestly, no one would have questioned John Kelly or mentioned his son, an American Hero…but Donald Trump HAD to, Trump HAD to indulge his own ego into the personal life of John Kelly…because Donald Trump, lacking empathy, sympathy, a soul or conscience, needed to try and prove a point to dissuade any negativity toward Trump’s own ineptness, and emptiness, regarding other American Hero’s. Sarah HUCKABEE Sanders, who uses the same lying tongue to praise Trump as she does to pray to her own Jesus, scolded the press corps, that John Kelly was troubled by the politicization of the death of his son, assuming it was the Media who first introduced the idea. IT WAS TRUMP, YOU MORON, HUCKABEE SANDERS, as inept as ever! 

Trump trades in rubles and perhaps rubies, whatever the currency Vladimir uses, and is wrapped in a collusion of fashion draped in the Russian flag. To disguise his own treasonous behavior, Trump pretends that taking a knee during the racing of our Flag or the playing of our Anthem is anti-American. His lemmings, abide by the Trump lies, and suddenly the villains of the USA are people practicing freedom of speech, not the enemies who hacked an election, were paid to participate in anarchy, and who want to dismiss any freedom of discourse. THE ENEMY OF THE STATE IS TRUMP, and to NOT understand that makes you as inept as ever!

There is no rallying cry from the GOP regarding the death of four Troops in Niger, instead the GOP is pissed someone overheard a lame phone call from the Commander-In-Chief pretending to extend his condolences. We are not talking about an inept Military Mission, an inept Military Maneuver, we instead are still debating who made the better, bitter phone calls to families on the loss of their loved ones. The more we ignore what went wrong in Niger, the history of why we are in Niger, the entire War on Terrorism, and spend hours and hours on the ignorance and emptiness of Trump, we as a society become inept.  We fall pray to the insidious ploys of one of the dumbest people on Earth, Trump, and every day he becomes more inept, and every day we permit him to sit in the Oval Office we reward him for his ineptitude. How inept is that?

Indignation

Let’s catch up with our own indignations, shall we. Lets stop pretending that anything similar to a moral compass exists at the White House, or for that matter, in the predominately Republican Congress. Let’s stop gasping as one more lie rolls off the tongue of Trump, pretending that THIS time must be the rock bottom of the barrel. Lets stop indulging the right by insisting equality, trust, truth and patriotism is nonexistent, permitting them to become the victim and demonstrate an odd act of hurt. No, Niger, Niger, Niger from the GOP! No Kushner/Trump private emails from the GOP! No worries about Russian collusion from the GOP! And if you listened to any of the whiny excuses coming from the shrill and sick voice of Jeff Sessions, our Attorney General, as he spoke to the same Senate Committee he lied to during his confirmation, you also heard NOTHING at all regarding what the USA, is doing or should be doing to avoid another Putin election scam for the 2018 Mid-term Elections.

Four Navy Seals have died during a mission no one has yet to discuss, but we are watching the news to hear what the NFL owners and the players are going to do this coming Sunday. We insist that our obligation to stand for the Flag and the Anthem is mightier than our First Amendment Rights, but the only reason we even speak about the four murdered Troops is because the Commander-in-Chief misbehaved or more precisely behaved exactly as we expected. Supposedly General Kelly is the big boy in the room managing the nursery which has become the Oval Office, but the spilled brat, conveniently spoiled by his blackmailed Republican kiss-ass leadership, continues to commit treason and anarchy. 

Jeff Sessions, is all talk about denying medical marijuana to citizens, he is all talk about being able to fire any LGBTQ employee because Jesus would want it that way, but Jeff Sessions has no recollection of meeting with conspiring with or collaborating with the Russians. The Republican led Congress has not renewed the CHIP program, and millions of children are at risk of dying without affordable health care. Harvey Weinstein is the talk of the town, but the town of Washington DC has a misogynist sitting in the Oval Office, an Education Secretary who thinks Rape victims are just a bunch of cry babies, and a Congress ready place you in jail if you dare seek an abortion after 20 months. Talking heads shake, quiver, they, dress up to appear on TV, pontificating that today was just too much, just wait, it can’t go on forever….but it does HE does, and all we seem to be left with is indignation. How loud must we become to be heard to have change become the reality? HOW LOUD?

another ground hog day

No words of outrage from the GOP as Puerto Ricans suffer the consequences of a government style genocide. Perhaps the same silence we heard from the GOP regarding the poisoning of water in Flint, whose population, like Puerto Rico are a majority of people of color. People drinking from polluted water, an empty hospital ship, and Trump arguing that HIS military should not be spending their time distributing aid. No words of dismay and dishonor as Trump delayed his mention of four Navy Seals murdered in an ambush in Niger. Lying which is the Trump norm, that other presidents never called families, let alone explained to the public what had just happened to our Troops, all the GOP can come up with is Trump did not want to discuss out ground operations in Niger to keep the enemy off guard….apparently, not so off guard as the enemy was ready and waiting. oh yeah, nothing says condolences like, “your son knew what he was getting into,” to a grieving wife and family! But then the spreading of death is like a game with Trump. Simple people die, not the wealthy, nor the white, nor family of Trump, so oh really gives a fuck! Cutting subsidies to the states to help pay for people living in poverty, making it too expensive to afford ObamaCare, just one more soulless affront to the American public. Trump’s jealous obsession with Barack Obama, plus Trump’s inability to serve anyone but himself, plus Trump’s need for distraction from all of the illegal activities he and his cohorts participated, make it easy to just let people die. Just as sad, for all of you who thought the GOP, was the Party of Life, is the silence most Republicans have taken regarding health, welfare, and quality of life.

The most disgusting group, however, are those Evangelicals who visit the White House to lay hands upon, Trump. A product of Jesus, they claim, a man God urged to become Leader of the Free World. I am curious, is there more than one Jesus. So I truly ask, is there two Jesus’s. Is the American one, white, and a bigot? Does the American Jesus, love to hang people of color or Gays? Does the American Jesus, believe that only the monied are truly blessed. Does the American Jesus honestly hate women? If there is truly one Jesus, then why are so many of his believers, his sheep so approving of the American Jesus, the guy who anointed Trump to live in the White House.

Isn’t it about time we take back a world in which we ALL want to live, equally, fairly, with justice and fairness? Isn’t it time to stop just ringing our fingers and start raising our voices, and perhaps out fists? People are dying, our planet is dying, and every day seems like Ground Hog Day on steroids.

A hang up

So, Trump jokes that Pence would like to hang Gays. No confirmed sources, just a joke about people like me. No need to be offended because well, its Trump, and EVERYONE knows Pence is a devout Evangelical Christian, and EVERYONE understands Trump ISN’T, but nonetheless, Trump enjoys teasing his VP, and what better subject to joke about than the LGBTQ community. Hanging the Gays, what a novel and precise way to rid the world of a demographic of human beings, of American human beings. I suppose concentration camps are so yesterday, and even though the Religious Freedom Act can assist in firing the Gays, denying the Gays from fostering or adoption, and it can certainly stop those Gays from being a consumer in your shop. So hanging Gays, kind of novel, but hey, it’s here say, just Trump being stupid, and Pence believing in Dominions (a group of Christian political ideologies that seek to institute a nation governed by Christians based on their understandings of biblical law). Don’t be so shocked, Roy Moore, the guy who won the Republican Primary for a Senate seat from Alabama bragged about the only law he will defend is that of his Bible.

Remember that time American history when a bunch Christians decided it would make for a better country to hang the Negro. It was God’s justice according to these Southern Baptist bullies. Rid society of the Negro (making life safer for white women), and doing God’s bidding at the same time. No real attempt at first to stop the hanging of the Negro from those in political power. So a few sinners die, didn’t it make America greater back then.

It took me a long time to come out of the closet. I will admit a lot of that hesitation came from me, but a whole other lot of it came from the culture, the religion, and the government at the time. Police raided Gay Bars, movies and TV depicted Gays as sociopaths, drug induced villains ready to rob your heterosexuality from you as you slept. ALL religions renounced the homosexual, it was unnatural, a sin, a mistake, something you had to beg your God from which to cure you. Even the Constitution made no mention of the homosexual, so who are you going to call to protect you. I AM so out of the closet NOW, that I have no idea where it was once located. But I am not going to let ANYONE try and push me back into it. A joke, to hang Gays, Mr Pence, it ain’t so funny! Just a pathetic plea from an insecure man! For all of YOU who voted for Trump/Pence who tried to reassure some of your best Gay friends that we had nothing to worry about, if by now you have not come to the conclusion YES in fact there IS PLENTY to worry ABOUT, then you are as much the problem a a bunch of brooding homophobes. MY AMERICA is filled with EQUALITY not a bunch of BIGOTS!

walking

When I was but a wee lad, living in Pittsburgh during the 1950s, (almost sounds as if I am about to write and Ode) my Aunt Meercy, my guide to culture and arts, would take my younger sister Francie and I to the movie premiers, theatrical productions and museums. Pittsburgh had turned itself from a very steel mill dingy factory city into a more livable place and with the assistance of some very wealthy families, had organized and built a place for the arts. One museum, the Carnegie, was a gothic looking structure housing everything from a collection of dinosaur bones, to the history of the Native Americans and both classical and contemporary art collections. There were two rules when we traveled with Aunt Meercy, the firs was that we had to dress up, and the second was we always had to stay to the right. My Aunt Meercy, as we entered any building, would say young ladies and gentleman respect others and always stand to the right. She would add, that if someone says hello, you look them in the eye, be proud of who you are, and respond, hello, Sir or Ma’am., and always stand to the right so EVERYONE had equal access to walk toward their own direction. So, my younger sister Francie and i would follow my Aunt Meercy’s rules and would communicate with strangers, who, after acknowledging  them became less strange and more human. (From this experience, I then impressed upon my kids the same concept that people had something in common). There was a song at then time called ‘Johnny Go Right’, which to my surprise my son Adam sang out of the blue one day during his Pre School Class at the Columbus JCC.

Back in the day, again some kind of Ode, is humming in my head, whenever my younger sister and I ran errands with my mother, no matter where we went to shop, my mother had a special salesperson she would seek out, be it Star Market, where we would stand in the checkout line for Louise, no matter how long the line, or Mellon Bank, where we would wait for Ruthie, the Teller, or the the Butcher at Star Market, Jake, who always made sure my younger sister and I got a free slice of bologna. my mother would tell us, we are waiting because the person who is waiting on us has a lot in common, and he or she is not a stranger, but a friend. My mother would add, and you never ever should think you have too many friends.

It is Sunday, as I write this blog, a very hot Santa Ana heat event, where the weather flows in from the desert. For LA, this weather is scary as it brings winds, and low humidity and for most of this city and its surroundings, the fear of fires. I was walking our wonder dog, Chance, and today, being miserably hot, my temper was a bit frayed. On our 45 minute jaunt, I had to exit stage left while three different people were texting on their phones, not giving a shit they were about to walk right into Chance or me. I did the quick boogie slide avoiding three piles of dog poop from the entitled dog owners who also could give a shit about their dogs shit. I had to actually stand still while four people pretended I was invisible and did not want to share the sidewalk, until one of them bumped into me and gave me that how dare you look. And the final memory of today’s walk, needed when at a four way stop sign, I began to cross he street with Chance and some guy almost hit the two of us. He looked at me and said fuck you. My response was to walk over to his window, look in the car, huffing and puffing my slight frame and saying in a go fuck yourself voice, nope, you are way to ugly for that…at which he rolled up his window, and I as slowly as possible walked in front of his car raising, of course my middle finger, and mouthing the words ASS HOLE. When I returned home, Chance seemed peppy and all I could think about was, now I understand why a man like Trump sits in the White House!

As The Rush Comes

Even though it was a Saturday, Saturday, October 14, 2017, to be exact, I knew i had to get to the gym and burn off some angst, anger, and frustration…I had already over consumed too much Trump, and needed DESPERATELY to exorcise his stench from my gut and my mind. Saturday at my gym is crazy, any kind of normal gym patterns are thrown for a loop, because on Saturdays you have various groups of people who play by different gym rules. Okay, I knew what I was getting into, but one more moment alone in my home, with yet one more amazingly stupid Trump action or tweet or response, I would certainly go MAD. So I headed to the gym. I got to the weight areas and there was a certain rhythm in place, not too many people taking selfies while sitting on a machine, not too many people trying to uses two machines at one time, and not too many people first sending a text then lifting a weight then sending another text. I could do this, and since Saturday was my free day, I had no routine in mind, and I could accommodate the weird world of weights, as I tried to sweat out the weight of Trump hovering over my mind and body.

The attitude of the crowd, the look at me , now don’t look at me, the LA attitude of privilege FINALLY got the better of me, so I ended my workout with weights and headed to the cardio room. Alas, alack, that space was also crowded, but along with Trump on my mind, and now the absolute entitled behavior of the weight room, I needed to sweat away every single moment of awful, the day had presented so far. I found the one available treadmill, the one of only four that has a 30 degree incline to it. I placed my ear buds tightly in my ears, wiping away any noise from the crowd, played my music loud, and began my journey to climb 30 degrees at a very fast pace, hoping that with each step and bead of sweat the horror that is Trump might disappear into the fog of a drenching workout.

“Traveling somewhere, could be anywhere, theres coldness in the air.

But I don't care. We drift deeper, Life goes on, we drift deeper, into the sound." I was listening to my Extra Energy Playlist, the song, ‘As The Rush Comes’, by Motorcycle…I have 5 more minutes left of my 30 minute climb, all the way to 30 degrees. “So, bring it on, bring it on, embrace me as the rush comes.”…I am a wet mess, drenched in sweat, tired but relieved that all I am thinking about is the finish…WHEN, something surreal, or at least at the moment I suspected it had to be surreal or a lack of oxygen…The treadmill I was using faces three TV monitors, usually I pay little attention as something politically disturbing will be on the screen, but here I was almost finished, feeling fine…on screen number one, was MSNBC reminding us that Trump decertified the Iran Nuclear Deal, and is certain also that North Korea is selling nuclear components to Iran…on screen two is a local network reminding us it’s not too late to buy tickets to Disney Christmas, showcasing Cinderella’s castle with gentle white snow oh so tenderly blowing…on screen three was CNN announcing that the Motion Picture Industry is removing any trace of Harvey Weinstein. “So bring it on, bring it on, we drift deeper into the song, life goes on.” I had finished my 30 minutes at 30 degrees, met my goal was sweaty, salty and smelly…But even with my victory all I could think of as it seemed all three monitors were combined into one, was the following…Will anyone really be around Christmas time to visit Disneyland, and if they do will the snow falling actually be acid rain from the nuclear cloud which will float freely around the world, and will Trump somehow fly Harvey Weinstein into that special bunker reserved for the president, and will the two sexual predators wait out the nuclear winter to resume their insidious behavior toward women. Then I hit the STOP button, my treadmill ceased to move, my mind however was in free flow…and I wondered am I just going crazy?

audacity

He has imploded. It isn’t about to happen, the pressure cooker exploded, and we, ALL of us, those who knew better, and those who could have cared less, are now suffering the consequences of a deluded and deprived man, who beat the system, conned the common man, and was paid in rubles to render this nation a disaster. Lots of blame to pass around, too much silence as he treads the death march upon a nation that seems so willing to fail, because he has helped identify enemies. Trump is winning, he has lost his mind, he has no conscience, he is a grifter and all WE seem  able to do is watch in disbelief.

The Mayor of San Juan had the audacity to call Trump out as a phony. The Mayor of San Juan had the audacity to be a female chastising Trump. The result of both is that a form of genocide is being played in an American landscape, because a frail ego has been hurt. Health care will cost more, the already poor, will just die in pain, the almost poor will have to decide if food and shelter are more of a priority than insurance, and all of this because the black guy had the audacity to be compassionate, and caring and one time laughed at the ludicrous life of Trump. The LGBTQ community will soon be quarantined, treated as inhuman, because they had the audacity to want equality, freedom and the rights the Constitution granted to ALL American citizens. HE, has already gone insane, and no matter what the well groomed and well paid Talking Heads pretend to say, a mad man already sits ion the Oval Office, and nobody with the power to carry him away in restraints gives one shit.

I blame Ryan, McConnell, the Mercer family, the Koch Brothers. I blame the stupid individual who cared less about knowing anything regarding Trump, but insisted on an insatiable appetite regarding Hillary, whether true or not. I blame the Republican Party, knowing full well their agenda was a fools game, but placed democracy in peril for a few more dollars from Putin. I blame the silent, ones, the people, who pretended that politics didn’t matter, as if it was a game. Now, I watch history unfold, a bad, sad, mad, unveiling of a future, which could have been stopped, but somehow continues to kill a nation and its people. Trump has reached the turning point, and yet we seem complacent, hoping that maybe tomorrow it will be different. The audacity of the ignorant, of the stupid, of the American people.  

TIME

Mr. President:

Are you recanting of the Oath you took on Jan. 20 to preserve, protect, and defend the 1st Amendment? (Tweet, Senator Ben Sasse R Nebraska, October 10, 2017)

Time will move in directions it deems essential. Time is an unseen force that is constant, moving inadvertently, precisely, curiously, but never with caution, and always with precision. History is  the dry riverbeds of time; reflecting a once mighty body of water which filled a space, until that space was no longer necessary, leaving clues as to what once might have been, and perhaps a wonderment of what might come next. For many it is only history which makes any sense regarding time. We seldom know what is next, but we often times know what was and the possibilities of the potential’s of time in the future. We suggest there is no time but the present, but as humans are often too frail to truly understand what we can do at that moment of time.

Sitting in the Oval Office, is a man referred to as pathological liar, a narcissist, an authoritarian personality, lacking an empathy or depth. Sitting in the Oval Office we witness a jealous man, angry that others do view him as the best, as the most, as the brightest star. Sitting in the Oval Office, we have an individual who does not control the energy of time, but has the wherewithal to set traps and detours for the churning momentum of time. No one controls time, and since time is not perfect, there are loopholes, to channeling the route time will elect to move ahead.  

Trump is a danger to our democratic society, let alone to the endangerment of the wetness and wholeness of the earth. His enablers believe time is on their side, so they caudal him, egg him on. Trumps enablers believe it will soon be their time and they will be in control of the destiny that time thrives upon.  Well, for all of you who think that all Trump does is bellow, bullies, and belittles and that he cannot do much more, pay attention to time in the next few weeks, when the owners of the NFL decide jut how perfect the First Amendment is, or is not. Time is moving on and if the NFL owners lay down to the demands of Trump, demanding their players NO LONGER TAKE A KNEE, this nation will run out of time to keep our democracy from becoming a dictatorship, run by an authoritarian. A blast, like the first bomb falling at the start of war will be heard and time will not let us take it back. A victory will be had by Trump and one by one the freedoms that out nation was founded upon will become history. Time will continue, and we will no longer recognize this nation. One day in the future some historian will look at the 21st Century and wonder what ever happened to the most powerful and democratic nation in the world.

the truth

The Evangelical Christian Nation of Mississippi, has deemed it lawful to discriminate against anyone LGBTQ, if in fact Jesus has visited you and told you to hate. The Republican Party of the Evangelical Christian Nation of Alabama has nominated Roy Moore, a man disbarred from practicing law, because he believes that the new Testament is the only rule of law. Mr Moore also is not quite sure if he wants to change his mind on whether or not homosexuals should be rounded up and jailed or just rounded up and murdered. Trump will be speaking at a hate filled anti-woman/homosexual/immigrant (the Us is a Christian nation gathering) along side Roy Moore. The Republican Legislators of the Christian Nation of Mississippi and Mr Moore of Alabama along with Trump all stand for the National Anthem, the Flag, both Confederate and American, and insist that they are Patriots in doing so.

There is no use in arguing with any of these con artists, because doing so is like standing in quicksand, the more you try to escape the madness, the deeper you sink. These entities go beyond hypocrisy, and could care less if they offend anyone who isn’t them. These entities are permitted to demonstrate a lack of conscience because the checks and balances of this nation no longer exist. The Republican leadership has been compromised by Putin, lets stop pretending that is not FACT. Mitch McConnell made a deal with the Devil, included that good ole Catholic alter boy Paul Ryan, and along with a billionaire Evangelical family named Mercer, they could give a shit about the Constitution, let alone its citizens. The more we yell and scream at Trump, the stronger his base becomes. 

it seems the only achilles heel Trump suffers from is in the form of Russia. Trump has not spoken about the 4 Nay Seals ambushed in Niger…he has not given a rats ass regarding Puerto Rico…California is burning, but they didn’t vote for Trump… Princess Ivanka and her frog Prince Jared used illegal emails, not one word…the Media is more concerned about Dems returning the money from Harvey Weinstein, a pig, a criminal, jerk, then they are about almost everyone in Trumps’s cabinet stealing taxpayer dollars. We are debating if Trumps is or is not a MORON…Nuclear war is more imminent than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis…but the Republicans want to make abortion after 20 weeks illegal, they will not fund CHIP, an insurance program for children on or below the poverty line, and now the republicans want to let employers fire Gay people and tell women how to address their personal health choices. Trump is happy, he is still in the White House, we are stupid because we think we can appeal to either he or his babysitters. The real deal is that the Republican leadership are enemies of state, and until we can lessen their grip tyranny we are all fucked!

so close

An Adult Day Care facility, erecting guideposts, keeping him calm, almost like a pressure cooker, phrases, terms, words to describe the one man who can, at will, place his tiny fingers on a very special pad connected to the most destructive and devastating set of weapons, which could set the stage for a world war where almost no one survives. There are no longer real checks and balances in this supposedly democratic government, not when one branch is in collusion with another branch of government. The majority in the Congress is Republican, the Executive branch is Republican, through a disregard for the democratic process the Judicial Branch is a majority of Republican appointed Justices, most of whom pay little attention to the law, but prefer political affiliation first. The Republican Congressional leadership have been compromised by the Russians, who through they're hacking, assisted the Republican Party, minority party, to set the agenda for America. Filled with promises from donors who believe this is a Christian nation, donors who believe they are royalty and the rest of the population servants or peasants, and filled with fear that they may be blackmailed by one of the most sinister dictators in the world, Putin, the GOP pretends to defend America, while mostly remaining defensive regarding anyone Trump. 

A narcissistic baby, a holder of grudges, a liar, a man who believes his masculinity is proven by the more misogynistic behavior possible, a thief, stealing tax dollars from this nation for his own benefit, perhaps a moron, can, at any moment, decide he is mad, really mad, and chango presto, he can press a few buttons and wham bam thank you ma’m, anyone not tucked away in the presidential bunker will disappear. And what are we doing while this maniac is still Tweeting or Pouting, or Threatening… almost absolutely nothing, because the Republicans in power who can actually turn on the night light and eliminate the bogy man refuse to do so, for fear that they too will be found out to be just as creepy and horrifying.

So, Senator Bob Corker, has tweeted his regrets toward Trump, so Senator John McCain has refused to let millions of people die by voting against TrumpCare, so Senator Susan Collins and Lisa Merkowski, sighed and simmered finally doing the right thing for all American’s health. But Trump still sits in the Oval Office, and little to no REAL concern is expressed by the Republican Party as to what the fuck happened to the 2016 Elections. I really wonder when will it be too late for a majority of the GOP to grow back a spine and a conscience, and finally push back at every poisonous thing Putin, with the assistance of Trump, has done to this nation. World War Three, part One has started via cyber warfare, its World War Three via nuclear weapons that I worry about. 

now, what!

Senator Bob Corker is not seeking re-election, Senator Bob Corker, seems to think that he can now speak freely or maybe a bit more free. Senator Bob Corker, before he decided he might lose his next election, voted the Republican Party line, which catered to the wealthy donors, protected Mitch McConnell and his Russian oligarchs, and ignored the environment, health and welfare of the citizens of his state of Tennessee. Senator Bob Corker while under the delusion, or perhaps illusion that the hacking and collusion of the 2016 election would and could be pushed under the American rug, was just one of the good ole GOP Boys, who was in favor of denying females reproductive rights, LGBTQ any rights, no rights for people of color. Senator Corker was no friend to the average American, but great buds with Corporations who became People under a very activist Republican Supreme Court! Oh yeah, and Senator Bob Corker assured the American public that Jeffry Sessions was an honest man, a distinguished colleague, even as then Senator Sessions lied during his Committee hearing. And not to forget, Senator Bob Corker, aided Senator Mitch McConnell’s war against permitting President Obama to nominate Merrick Garland, for Supreme Court Justice, but had no problem in voting for one of the most divisive Jurists, Neil Gorsuch. Who knows what happened, but suddenly Senator Bob Corker has found a bit off a spine, or maybe one of his two testicles dropped, providing him a hint courage.

Senator Bob Corker, IS NO HERO, yet, for American Democracy or the US Constitution, as one or two Tweets do not equate to a Purple Heart. Anyone, interested in their future, or perhaps the future of their NEXT generation, should truly understand, that if the Republicans really wanted Trump removed for being an anarchist, a treasonists, an insane person, a puppet of Putin, the GOP would have invented the same two dozen or so Committees similar to the Witch Hunt regarding Hillary. The GOP would have used every waking moment to prove the collusion between anyone Trump and anyone Putin. But to do, the GOP would have to then look inward and find that the real perpetrators to this highjacked and hacked election were indeed the leadership of the Republican Party and most likely some really high powered Donors.

Thus what I call the McCain Game, is now happening to Senator Corker.  Senator McCain decided to not let millions of Americans die because of Republican promises to donors, but McCain still remains loyal to all other hate filled laws or Executive Orders under the Trump Administration. McCain is a grand daddy of Republican Party politics and I am certain has more dirt on the GOP then Aunt Bea had on anyone living in Mayberry. Senator Bob Corker, is one of the GUYS of the GOP, also. He too must know an awful lot of back room, cigar smoking, pick pocketed, snake oil selling ploys and plots Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan managed and arranged. NOW, if we want to praise Senator Bob Corker, it might be because FINALLY a Republican really cares more about this nation then the continuing dictatorial governing by a political party who only winds by cheating. Wonder, what Senator Bob Corker will do?

stand for what

As much as we know, as Americans nowadays are permitted to know, 4 Crew Members of a Navy Seals Team had been ambushed and murdered in the African nation of Niger. Some of us know this after reading very cryptic reports. According to many Journalists, the mere fact that any American Troops were in the nation of Niger remain a mystery. But, the fact is 4 Troops were killed. Have we heard anything from Trump, who pretends that NOT standing for the Anthem or the Flag is an affront toward the Troops? Have we heard anything from the Second Banana Pence, who feigned indignity at a football game, again letting the American public that to take a knee is very UnAmerican! Free speech ain’t free, you know! 

Neo Nazi’s once again marched in Charlottesville, but that is not offensive to the Troops. The LGBTQ community is once again the scapegoat of fearful Christian Crusaders, so being fired from a job, adopting kids, are back on the lets hate some Americans, is that offensive to the Troops. Women must now ask their Boss Man if they can conduct their own personal health preferences, you know because being chattel is so 2017, is that an insult to the Troops?

I am a Gay Man, the father of a daughter, the brother of three sisters, the friend to countless women, so tell me why I should stand for the Flag and the Anthem, when in fact my rights and the rights of those I love are considered less important. Why would good Americans, who understand in equality, freedom and justice want to support a Flag and Anthem in which the current government, has disregard for minorities, women, the LGBTQ population, and with the cuts to Medicare, and Medicaid and Social Security older people, and the ill! And now that the Republican Congress has refused to reissue the CHIP program, and Insurance plan for children at or below the poverty line, why would any one serving in the Military want ANYONE to stand for a Flag and Anthem, by a government that seems to say Fuck You to segments of its own population. Get off your high horse, the one full of apple pie, picket fences and motherhood, the current politicians in DC (the ones placed there by Putin), could give a rats ass about American patriotism. Understand what democracy is truly about, learn how it has been highjacked, you want people to stand for the Flag and Anthem then throw out the current bunch hacked into office gerrymandered politicians, and replace them with real Americans.

same sham

Hey Mike Pence, cool little diversion, you walking out of the Indianapolis football game in protest of the NFL players demonstrating their right for free speech. I am curious who thought of the idea, the Trump white supremacist in the White House, Stephen Miller or the ex Trump white supremacist Steve Bannon. Gotta give you credit how huffed and puffed you pretended to be announcing how disparaging it is to America, the flag, and off course our Troops. Speaking of our Troops, I suppose having good Nazi’s, some carrying the Swaztika, or good ole’ southern boys waving the Confederate Flag, is not a slap in the face to the Troops who died during WWII and the Civil War. 

Of course your little tactic will attract the attention of the media, who still loves to showcase BLING, it brings in the ratings. But Mike Pence I still have questions about you and the Mrs, all dressed in your Sunday, going to church, outfits, exiting the football game. Do you think it might be disrespectful to the Flag, the Nation, the Troops, lying about any collusion you had with the Russians while the Trump campaign was in full force. Do you think it might be disparaging to all Americans as you continue to lie about having any knowledge of meeting with any one from the Russian oligarchy or government. And Mike Pence, don’t you think it is mighty dangerous to the Flag, the Nation and the Troops, how you and Mitch McConnell continue to demonstrate bold face lies regarding Trump and his families relationship with Vladimir Putin. What a photo op, Mike Pence all dressed up for a football game and oh so traumatized by NFL Players taking a knee. I know you pride yourself as a good Christian, which part of the New Testament does Jesus or his Disciples explain that lying, hypocrisy and treason are gifts from God?

I would say shame on you, but you feel none of that, just like to preach it. I could call you a sham, but thats how you got as far as you have in politics, so for you that a good thing. What I can say is you are treasonous puppet for Putin or as it says in the Bible a wolf in sheets clothing.