I'M THE MAMA, THAT'S WHY!!

   If you can recall, there was a show long ago, when my kids were kids, about a dinosaur family that faced the same challenges of daily life that we face. Their world was a good one but the powers that be ignored facts, lied to the people and the series ended with the family sitting and shivering at a strange winter which overcame them, snowing forever and they sat there shivering, saying it would end and so ended their world. Sounds familiar.
     But the favorite line in this program was , "Because I'm the Mama, that's why!!" And don't think I did not use that line on the kids and they laughed and listened - and it worked quite well in school with the kids using teacher instead of Mama. There comes a time when we have to know that someone has the final sayso, someone that we need to and can trust. I would say that in our government it would be the president and the more important figures of government, But, a big but, not today, not when we have a president who  knows he is wrong yet defends the most outlandish statements in a ridiculous statement of his own and I quote him.
    "I'm a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can't be doing so badly, because I'm the president and you're not."
    "...he has presented himself as the last honest man ..." and yet he is the man on the planet who can least accept the truth. He creates his own nasty reality, an alternative one that consists of lies made up in his own head, lies which he then lays off on someone else when he is caught out, lies which are meant to deflect attention from his own sins and they just mount up. Pathological lying is a sickness, one of the many mental issues he has and this man needs to be gone, settled in a nice room in one of his hotels and cossetted and soothed all he needs and wants but certainly needs to be far away from the buttons of power, from the seat of power before he destroys us all.
     There has been nothing good that he has done since inauguration. He has terrified millions, upset millions more, threatened members of his own party that they had better vote as he wants or else he's gonna get them!. He wants a Trumpcare that is going to strip the coverage from most and has disappointed many who thought he would improve it - silly people! He has endorsed the views and philosophy of the Fat Cats, stripping all regulations that protect us and the environment, allow us to build toward a better place for our children, cut all the safety lines for workers and our kids in school and just find one good thing he has done. The only thing I can find is that Nikki Haley as the UN Ambassador is a powerful speaker, a needed one but is she expressing her views or his? I would bet on hers. She is one to watch for future developments.
     How do we deal with this man who cannot deal with the truth, with this man who would sooner lie as tell the truth and perhaps does not even recognize truth when it rises up and smacks him in the face. How do we explain him to our kids - to ourselves!!.
    I have no answers other than hoping that the powers that be start finding some common ground, like perhaps the betterment of our country and get together and solve this problem, especially the Republicans who are still Party above all. Party uber alles, no matter who is hurt. No matter the fact that nothing positive is happening and all the negatives are simply increasing in power and in hate inducing actions and feelings. Just look at what happened late yesterday and overnight.
     Trump  has been threatening mayhem for the Republicans who have the gall to turn him down. Those who are voting No seem to be doing this because they wish to make it tougher, not better and 24 million people are still going to lose their coverage, but what the hey! Just the struggling masses so who cares, right!
     Yesterday we heard from a dad who needed a proper education for his son and Boston was it. His local district disagreed and so did Gorsuch who stated that de minimis - the minimum was enough. Really? Are we to tell all the parents and all the children with learning disabilities that they are to be limited in their aspirations for the minimum is enough for them!? How dare they? How dare he? And the Supreme Court justices felt the same way too but what would happen if Gorsuch had been confirmed and faced a similar case. This man has no heart, just like Trump, and he needs to be rejected. And speaking of no hearts, Brian Mast, yes, the very same one who will be available April 1 here in the Village and a staffer on March 29 in the library, tried to rally others to vote for the repeal! He is a Trumper all the way, right over our dead bodies! Be there, question him, make his see the light!
     And the lack of care and concern for the people, the atmosphere of let business rule continues with a vote by the Senate, right along Party lines, to allow ISPs to sell our info. Yup, a regulation had been passed to prevent this, but this is one of the regulations that Trump and company do not like. You voted for him? Look what you have done! Even as people are beginning to see thru the nasty right wing sites, we still have a long way to go to combat this nastiness and disregard for and of others.
     And by the way, it appears that America has shut its doors. Might as well take down the Statue of Liberty for it no longer welcomes people onto its shores and though its doors to a better life. They have decided to make it harder, almost impossible and to take a looooong time to get a visa. Welcome to Trump world.
         How do I know this? Why do I feel this? Because I am a thinker, that's why. Because I am a mama, that's why, who is worried for her little chickadees. Because  I am a person who cherishes truth and cannot abide liars. Because, like it or not, planned for or not, I have become an activist and brother, did I think those days were over long ago but you know, activism is necessary out there and in here in the Village. David Israel is a mini Trump and just as bad for us. His actions and behavior are toxic to us and he too must be put in his place and answer to the people. Calling opponents of theirs names is the last resort of a hopeless person who knows he has no excuses for what he has done and caused. Trump and Israel - what a pair.