If we had an honest election, untainted by hacking, foreign interference, would we have been in the midst of the turmoil we are presently suffering? If we had a person with a functioning brain in office would we be living this? If we had people in charge who understood that we are all in this together, that we all need to co-exist in this tiny orb in space - if, if - all this frightening tension and hatred and smashed dreams and living nightmares - if, if.
So how do we fix this if problem? First, we stand strong and we remain true to our beliefs and principles. And we take advantage of every edge we can find. Publish the garbage, the dangerous garbage that is rife within the Trump administration and perhaps we can shut it down. They wanted to sign away the rights of LGBT, allow people to legally discriminate, well, some righteous person within the Trump camp leaked a copy of that order and the outcry stopped it in its track and IF we keep watch then maybe it will die the death it deserves - forever. And so it goes with any other anti and unAmerican ideas that float thru the Trump administration, all the hypocrisy - get it gone and keep it gone.
The Superbowl, believe it or not, served as a great example and reflection of the America we wish to be, can be and have been. It reflects the welcome that America has given thru the years of its existence, its hope that it has given people. So Coke sang in multiple voices and languages of America! And 84 Lumber had a beautiful ad which was CENSORED by Fox - great surprise there, huh! which pictured a journey of a mother and child wishing to join family in America, their trek and the WALL that met them at journey's end. The child pulled out an American flag she had created from detritus found on the journey and lo and behold there was a door behind which was the dream - the United States of America. Well, Fox could not have this, the same Fox that is a mouthpiece for Trump, the same man who forgets that he is the grandson of an immigrant, the same man who forgets that Ivanka's items are manufactured mainly in China - oops!, who forgets right from wrong and who has no heart, no morals, no soul. Watch Lady Gaga, watch the other ads and see if we can remain true to our founding visions.
So he sits in his bathrobe after 6:30 and watches TV or pours over the ads and newspaper stories - if they are short as his attention span is limited and he tweets and growls and plans more nefarious doings and deeds. And his speeches, his statements - well, see for yourself; “Obamacare doesn’t work so we are putting in a wonderful plan,” Mr. Trump said. “It statutorily takes a while to get. We’re going to be putting it in fairly soon. I think that yes, I would like to say by the end of the year -- at least the rudiments - but we should have something within the year and the following year."
What the hell is that? And I thought George Bush had some language issues?
So where do we go from here? Are we prepared for what is next if this man defies the courts? With his fascistic and demagogic traits? I shudder to think and to say but there it is - civil war and revolution and rebellion and violence and where and how does it stop. And if you think that I am talking out of my hat, here is a tweet from a Republican official in Ohio "Time for another Kent State perhaps. One bullet stops a lot of thuggery," Adamini tweeted.
In a separate Facebook post, Adamini wrote: "I'm thinking that another Kent State might be the only solution...They do it because they know there are no consequences yet -' We still remember Kent State and the shootings there. Again?! 'We, the United States of America...." Is that a challenged term? Will it vanish into the mists of history, join the wishes of a once upon a time Camelot? Will we all have to obey his bro, Putin, whom he cannot praise enough? And if we think that it stops there, in DC, then think again. Look right here in the Village. Here too we have a man who sits isolated and alone at weird hours of the day and night, sits and plots in his lonely cave in the back of the UCO building. He holds secret meetings on Sundays and thinks no one notices the cars parked in back. Guess he has his own Bannon and Priebus and Miller. And what is his latest plot? The Broadband issues.
There was a presentation on Friday between two proposals and everyone was talking of the comparison of the two but it seems to me that we have fallen into a trap and forgotten the essence of the issue. David Israel and UCO have NO right to bargain for the residents re Internet. He does have the right to bargain for TV and that is it. So in presenting these two proposals he glosses over the true state of affairs - that he is once again overstepping his bounds and it will all come back to bite us in the rear.
Dan Gladstone has written a good presentation of this idea and the truth behind it. He writes of the residents who have no interest in Internet, no desire for it at all and why are they being told to choose when there is no right to do this. It would truly and honestly and legally take a change in the laws and by laws that govern our Village but then again, when has David Israel EVER guided his life by the rules if they get in his way.
For years he hounded us for Wi-Fi, wireless connections and demeaned and belittled all who opposed it but we persisted and it was defeated, soundly and roundly so and he even admitted that in public yet at the meeting! Wow! Will it rain gold raindrops next? Now he is obsessed with broadband and its placement within the Village. The truth is that it is here already for those who want it, for those who need it and use it. He again, as usual, forgets that we have a very mixed population here, many elderly elderly and they have no wish nor the money to pay for broadband - especially as there is no right for this to be in negotiation!! But this is David. He has a one track mine - his desires, his wishes and screw the rest. So, in full disclosure, I would go with the Comcast proposal for it would benefit me but the point is - it was not and is not in the purview of his to do this. He obsesses about what he wants and forgets that for two years and more we were hearing how great Atlantic Broadcasting was, how we should not pay attention to the complaints re its service - or lack thereof, how it was a good idea that we pay for its expenses in pulling wires up from Miami so it could then link up with other communities! And that was our responsibility exactly how and why? And then, yes, when Ed Grossman and Myron Solomon contacted Comcast who had never been informed that another contract was in talks as there were several more years on the contract, we achieved a better deal. CSI, signed illegally with us, grew hot under the collar at this fact and its publication for they wanted credit for this new offer from Comcast, and the tuchis lickers of David Israel all obediently booed Ed for their master dislikes him intensely and had shown him up yet again. No, Ed should not have yelled but neither should the CSI rep! Bad business manners!
We need to go back to the beginning about broadband and who negotiates for the Village and if that is even correct. We need a Town Hall and not just a delegate meeting. We need truth in government but then again - why do we expect a change now and in fact, David so casually stated in the Rag that he intends to remain in office almost permanently until death! Well....
But David Israel is doing no more or less than any other petty demagogue will do and does when the big honcho does the same. Get rid of Trump. Get rid of Bannon. Get rid of the bigots and the crooks and the Fat Cats of Wall street who are now busy planning to screw the very people who voted for Trump - get rid of all that and maybe, maybe we can then return to OUR America, our Village. Maybe we can stop all the hatred, the nationalism, the prejudice that is growing like a fungus all over the world. Maybe. IF...
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