HELP!!!!!

 I HONESTLY try to be positive to look for hope, to understand the problem and find solutions, BUT, FUCK, when I read about some of the current ways of our American world….I feel doomed!

In the Banana State of Florida, you are not permitted to “Say, Gay,” and now, added to denial of that, you cannot say, “Climate Change.” Both Gays and Climate Change are real, but only in the minds of psychopaths neither exist. However, for the Republican Fascists Nationalistic Christians of Florida, the Gays are not out to GET YOU. However, Climate Change, IS!

 

Projection and TRUMP are like White on Rice; you cannot have one without the other. Because TRUMP is, among so many other character flaws a narcissist, he cannot help but try and brag about the ideas and plans he has and had implemented. Of course, he is now accusing the Biden Administration of oppressing and criminalizing political opponents, forgetting of course that he, TRUMP, stated that on his first days in office, he will demand his political enemies face some sort of retribution.  TRUMP calls those who seek the freedoms of Democracy Fascists, when in fact, TRUMP has his own Band of Brown Shirts dressed in Red Hate, Tiki Torches, and White Robes.

 

One more Non-scientist, Non-educated, Non-intelligent Republican, pretending to play Doctor. Moscow Margie is always ready to scandalize, exploit, and exacerbate, being more concerned about finding her 15 minutes of fame, but relying, instead, on her 15 hours of shame. Her classless, and crass attempts to assassinate the reputations of smart people, (I suppose to have us look the other way at her sheer stupidity) were on full display as she went after Dr. Fauci and his COVID response. Moscow Margie conveniently omitted the fact that her Lord and Savior TRUMPS, lack of response cost the lives of over 450, 000 Americans.

 

Donald Trump Is Banned from 37 Countries as Convicted Felon, Including Major Allies Like Canada and U.K. IF ELECTED PRESIDENT AGAIN, TRUMP WOULD NEED SPECIAL PERMISSION TO ENTER SEVERAL KEY COUNTRIES FOR MAINTAINING FOREIGN RELATIONS. (People Magazine) But in our God Bless America, nation, this Felon can run for the highest office of the land, establish his plans for his type of rule of law, and of course will have the power, if elected to pardon a whole bunch of other Felons, many of which who had worked for him in his last term in office, and many more who will work for him if elected.

 

 

 

Sounds of Silence

 Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction. Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction. (NBC News)

Silence . Utter Earth-shattering silence, from the same folks who were able to SHOUT about their so-called grievances regarding the Justice System of the United States, when TRUMP was found a Felon by a Jury of his peers. Folks like lyin’ Ted Cruz, Little Marco, Ms.  Lindsey Graham Gym Jordon, Moscow Margie, et al, have zipped their lips so it seems, as their MAGA Fascists Brown Shirt base, threaten Jurors, Judges, and the people associated with Law and Order, and American Justice. The Republican Trump Puppets and Fools are somehow unable to find their voices urging the MAGA Fascists to stop treating our Democracy like trash, and to demand that innocents not be threatened. 

 

But then again, these are same traitors who demand we don’t “say Gay,” or Trans Lives matter, the folks who love to pick and choose their words. They are the insane Trump minions who will do and say anything that keeps their Supreme Leader happy. For them what matters most is “WHAT’S IN IT FOR THEM!”

 

The Sounds of Silence, from the Republicans, oh so scarry!

 

 

 

Convenient!

 “Don't you understand what I'm tryin' to say

Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin' today?

If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away

There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave

Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you boy. “(“Eve of Destruction”/P.F. Sloan)

 

Texas GOP Exposes Ugly Truth About Letting States Ban Abortion. (New York)

King Alito’s Arrogance Has Reached Frightening New Levels. (SLATE)

There’s a new dark money group supporting Trump. (POLITICO)

‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing. (The Guardian)

‘Disappointed to see a person of faith lie’: Kinzinger reacts to Speaker’s comment on Trump verdict. (CNN)

 

States rights (aka), bigotry, misogyny, racism, xenophobia,  conveniently made legal. The Supreme Court conveniently becomes the Gods on Mt. Olympus. Dark Money conveniently makes bribery legal, fraud legal. Anarchy wrapped in a Confederate Flag, surrounded by a swastika, dressed in a white robe with a red hate, convenienty  becomes the new Patriotism smothered in Christian National, with Hypocritical Christianity conveniently the new form of communion.

 

“Yeah my blood's so mad feels like coagulating

I'm sitting here just contemplatin'

I can't twist the truth it knows no regulation

Handful of senators don't pass legislation

And marches alone can't bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin'

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'”(“Eve of Destruction”/P.F. Sloan)

 

We are witnessing ALL of this, ALL of this complete decay, but somehow, it seems for way too many it is too INCONVIENIENT, to try and stop it!

 

“Over and over and over again my friend

Ah, you don't believe

We're on the eve of destruction.” (“Eve of Destruction”/P.F. Sloan)

 

 

This immediate universe

 Once upon MY TIME, I used to become distraught, disoriented, discombobulated, whenever I tried to consider how expansive the universe is, and if the universe does have a limit, what lies beyond that, and the doozy of my wonders was, what was here before the universe. Even as I write this, I feel that tiny knot in my stomach tightens, sending a message to my brain, HELP. My brain, finally, after 74 years of trying to figure this whole madness out, shoots back a text to my stomach telling it to shut the fuck up!

That was then, but as a person who tries very hard to understand the why’s and how’s of life, I have replaced the mysteries of the universe with some new and even more daunting questions, perhaps not as vast as the entire universe, but vastly important to MY EVERYDAY existence. 

 

HOW THE FUCK WILL OUR DEMOCRACY SURVIVE. I cannot understand why we still have life terms for the Supreme Court. I have no idea why the Electoral College remains relevant, and why could a person who did not receive the majority of votes in our so-called Democracy go on to become President. And then add to that, if that person becomes President, without the majority of American votes, why could or should, or would they be permitted to even have the right to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court. I perseverate over the idea that there are no term limits for politicians other than the President. I wonder why Jews, Women, the LGBT community, and People of Color would vote for anyone who has made it very clear in both their rhetoric and actions that they are Misogynistic, Homophobic, Racist, Anti-Sematic, Transphobic, and a Xenophobe? 

 

The worries about MY immediate UNIVERSE have now taken occupation of my gut, my brain, and almost my every waking moment. I waited until the TRUMP Trial was over, not really quite sure of the verdict. And now, NOT TO MY SURPRISE, the newest worry and wonder become HOW THE FUCK will this nation ever maintain any honest sense of law and order when a majority of one Political Party has decided that law and order only work when it is used against their opponents. HOW THE FUCK, will justice and liberty ever see the light of day while those in power continue to place their personal desires above and beyond the welfare of this nation and its citizens? We have has been from Megan Kelly, Sarah Palin, and Tucker Carlson to current US Senators and House Representatives, including the House Speaker, the second in line to the Presidency, declaring war, declaring violence, declaring that our Justice System is conspiratorial, is rigged, not based on the facts, but based on the idea that facts should never matter, when those facts clearly state the guilt of TRUMP.

 

I am afraid, I am frustrated,  I am fearful! How do I fight back when it seems to me that EVIL is so much more POWERFUL?

FRUSTRATING

 Be it Alito, or Thomas or Cannon…Be it Vance, or Tuberville, or Scott…Be it Greene, or Boebert, or Johnson…Be it FOX, or Newsmax, or OAN…Be it Oath Keepers,  Moms For Liberty, or, Proud Boys…WHAT IT IS, IS a sad sick insidious “right in our faces,” ATTACK on ALL of our freedoms, liberties, choices, and DEMOCRACY!

Trump has never been successful in building his own businesses, but DAMN, he somehow has found the blueprints for rebuilding America, IN HIS IMAGE.

 

I have and will fight back this flood of tyranny, authoritarianism, dictatorship, but each and every day, almost any hour within our 24 hour rotation of this planet, it seems more, and more, and MORE the flood of tyranny is turning into an unstoppable tsunami.

 

I fear the worst because what I have witnessed is that the WORST POLITICIANS in this world seemed to have joined together, placing their personal ambitions above the people. I have witnessed many people pretend that as long as, FOR NOW, they are not the target of Hate, Racism, Bigotry, Bias  Xenophobia, they can participate in the throng to deny and destroy democracy for others. None of these fools realize that once the Fascists run out of the first group of OTHERS, that the Fascists will need a new batch of scapegoats.

 

TRUMP seems to be getting away with every conceivable crime, every slimy, sleazy trick in the book, every disgusting inhuman action. HOW, WHY, and WHAT THE FUCK! 

Intentional INACTIONS

 HOW 3M DISCOVERED, THEN CONCEALED, THE DANGERS OF FOREVER CHEMICALS The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them. (The New Yorker)

 

Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue, according to a recent investigation from InsideClimate News. This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation. (SCI AM)

 

New research suggests that tobacco companies have known for 40 years that cigarette smoke contains cancer-causing particles, but deliberately hid the information from the public. (CBS News.com)

 

I wish I knew, HONESTLY, I wish I understood, just how the individuals in positions of power, within the Oil Cartel, the Tobacco Cartel, and the Chemical Cartel, seem to have “no shits” about the health and welfare and well-being of you and I, and the billions are human lives on Earth? Can money, lots of it, make anyone immune from suffering the consequences of illness, doom, and destruction, the kind of evil intentions created by the CEOs, Executive Managers, and Boards of Directors who invent evil and try their hardest to ignore the evil they created?

 

Are profits, lots and lots of profits for a select few, truly a justified priority in easing the consciences of those who I see as accomplices to murder, pre-meditated murder? I have to wonder, if you knew or know that your product, the one that will make you millions, is capable of murdering millions, and you continue to produce that product, are you not guilty of both your actions and your INACTIONS?

 

 

 

 

 

My Memorial Days

 For me, some memories still remain magical. I am blessed by the moments in my life, which still resonate richly, and retain the fundamentals that have helped me live my life holding on to hope, holding tightly to love, and helping me to recall horizons from the past which helped me fight forward for horizons of today and tomorrow.

Way back when, in the 1950’s, which at times seems so long ago, and at times seems like just yesterday, Memorial Day Weekend, was an adventure, one that led me to a journey towards the summer ahead. Way back then it seemed to me that my life was eternal. Days lasted more than 24 hours, and tomorrows were always so far away. I was certain that FOREVER, was indeed for ever!

 

On the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, my father took my little sister and I to the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and we went to Father and Son’s Shoe Store. My father knew Herman, who managed the store, and Herman, would greet my dad, saying, “Welcome back Benny Buncher, and my how your kids have grown since last summer.” Herman would pat me on the head and hug my little sister. Herman would take out the weird looking metal shoe thingie, in which we would first place our left foot  then right foot, measuring our shoe size, and usually say, “your kids feet are growing, that is a good thing.” Then, without hesitation, Herman would go to the back of the shoe store and return with our blue one-inch rubbered soul summer shoes, guaranteed to keep our feet protected all summer. Herman would then touch our toe and say to my father, they have a whole summer to grow,w and these shoes will be perfect! My dad would shake Herman’s hand, and Herman would pat me on the head, hug my sister, give us TOOTSIE Pops, and say see you next year, telling my sister you stay pretty and say to me, you better grow taller!  As we left Father and Son Shoe Store, my Dad would say, don’t tell your mother, because it is close to dinner, but we are going to the Big Islay’s Store and getting ice cream, any flavor you want!

 

On the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, we headed out to North Park Swimming Pool. It was a County Public Pool, and as I remember way back when, one of the largest swimming pools I EVER had seen. My parents would tell my sister and I that once Memorial Day happened, wham bam swimming pool came to life, and their life lasted until Labor Day. I actually believed that story for a long, long time. When we got to North park Swimming Pool, we met up with a whole bunch of other families whose fathers had been a police man like my dad. On Saturday night, my father took out our grill, placed the first official bag of summer charcoal on the grill flushed it with lighter fluid, instructed my sister and I to stand back, and like lightening had struck our grill a blaze of fire at least 10 feet tall, in reality only a few inches tall erupted, and the Buncher Family was having our OFFICIAL FIRST SUMMER GRILL DINNER of the SUMMER.

 

On the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, we got ready for our block party. Most of neighbors except for the Schwartz’s and the Appelbaum’s who seemed to hate kids, had their grill out, their lawn hoses ready, and Mr. Rosen had a whole list of relay races for all of us to play. My father, as the Sargent of Police, was able to have the barricades set at the top and bottom of the street, so all of us could safely play in the street. Sunday night, my two sisters and I and my parents set off to the Silver Lake Drive-In and were ready to see some scary movies.

 

On the Monday of Memorial Day Weekend, my father collected all of the kids on our street, and we walked the neighborhood placing 12” flags on everyone’s front lawn. My Dad, along with many other kids’ Dad’s would remind all of us that it was the courage, and love of country by men and women, some who sacrificed their lives for freedom, that we celebrate Memorial Day. My father would say, we can enjoy this day, because so many people fought for the future. In the afternoon, the lawn hoses were out, swim suits on, and everyone, including parents got wet. That night almost all families had their grills going and summer was officially anointed!

 

Those were, the days I thought would never end!