When my siblings and I were young kids, my Grandma Braff would spend lots of time with us. My grandmother arrived from Romania as a young girl way back when, and as much as she became Americanized, she also retained some of her own family traditions and superstitions. To this day, I remember and remain cautious regarding a very spooky imaginary group of ghoulish goons that my Grandmother would identify as the “Pooh-Pooh People.
The “Pooh-Pooh People” were the Romanian version of the good old American “Gotcha”. And for my Grandmother, that came with a warning that one should never take anything for granted, and being too cocky, avoiding looking over your shoulder, and predicting the future without looking at the facts of the present, would rile the “Pooh-Pooh People,” and by throwing caution to the wind, the “Pooh-Pooh People” would rise up and screw you over.
My Grandmother said they were called the “Pooh-Pooh People”, because, if anyone began to predict a better future, before doing so, to be certain that the good you are awaiting arrives, you must first spit out the words “pooh-pooh,” as you turned your head to the right, then the left. By doing so, you had a better chance of throwing the “Pooh-Pooh People off guard. Needless to say, in our house growing up, there was a whole lot of spittle.
I write this long tale of growing up in our house because, as I look at all of the hope and clamoring of a BLUE WAVE in November 2026, I also concentrate on the current conditions of this nation, and I worry. I believe that the fascist sociopath, criminal, Trump has way too many authoritarian tricks up his sleeve, and along with his Gestapo of anti-American sycophants, he will use all of these tricks to disrupt the midterms.
Trump’s invasion of blue cities and blue states, his newest ploy in the post marks for when mail is actually considered delivered, his constant attacking and identifying new enemies of HIS state, lead me to one conclusion, and that is that if all else fails, these actions are a lead in to declaring Martial Law, before that BLUE WAVE can even begin.
I think about my Grandma Braff and her lectures of never being too sure of the future, if you haven’t at least taken a good look at the present. To prevent Trump from declaring Martial Law, Trump must be removed from office. I would hope that the effort to legally remove him and to have him face true justice for the past and current crimes he has committed should be the first steps taken. I am looking over my right and left shoulders, each and every day I hear about the BLUE WAVE, and with great spittle, saying “pooh-pooh,” knowing that NOW is the time to make certain THEN actually can happen as we hope.
