“When I wake up in the afternoon
Which it pleases me to do
Don't nobody bring me no bad news
'Cause I wake up already negative
And I've wired up my fuse
So don't nobody bring me no bad news.” (Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad News/Charlie Smalls)
Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, in the Broadway and movie productions of ''The Wiz'', And this character has a whole lot of flying monkeys set to attack any and all who might just bring her some bad news.
For me, the BAD NEWS began the moment the Electoral College, (you know the College where the popular vote, as in one person, one vote, has no credits, and earns zero Degrees) granted Putin’s favorite puppet, TRUMP the nomination as President of the USA, which was soon to become an extension of the defunct USSR. It was then, that I HONESTLY could not watch, or read the news. I had to stop COLD TURKEY from even thinking about the news of the day, BECAUSE, for me, to do so, meant I was walking extremely close to insanity. I DID stop watching, listening, or reading the news for about two months, but realized, that somehow by ignoring the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM, my room was getting tinier, and the elephant was way too large! I had wondered, how can I fight back or act up, if I pretended the BAD NEWS of the moment did not exist.
And now, in July 2023, I once again, am struggling with the current events which ONCE AGAIN, are leading me toward the highway to Hell, which ends in the land of INSANITY. Culture Wars/DeSantis/Don’t Say Gay/Drag Performances/MAGA/Republicans/Racism/Hypocrites and TRUMP, all of these man-made GOP PR foibles have become facts for Americans. From Margie Putin-Greene to Tucker Carlson, to Robert Kennedy Jr. to the Supreme Court, each day becomes a nightmare, in which all I wish for is that “don't nobody bring me no bad news.”
