Trump's mouth has a nasty button that will not shut up as is the case with his stupid button, his illiterate button. Simple words such as tap or hereby are misspelled and then erased, against the law by the way. His words and those of his henchmen inspire hatred that appears in renewed oral and physical attacks on Jews, on Muslims, on women, on immigrants and the effect is seen worldwide. Today, in Bulgaria, there is a vigilante group scouring the border for immigrants and refugees. Memories of native Ukrainians or Poles or French scouring the cities of Europe, the countryside of Europe for hidden Jews rise to the surface. Will we in America be far behind? We already have had hundreds, yes, hundreds, of incidents here in the USA so where will it end? Will one of those hoax calls turn real with a bomb going off in a community center and the bodies of babies, of children, of seniors, of workers then be brought out, carried out and what, will the world then cry crocodile tears?
We need to watch the use of language and what it means. When we devalue it we devalue other values and we forget to hear and feel the impact of those words. So in Italy there is a major scandal in the Church with priests participating in sex orgies of all types, in prostitution, because they have ignored the words in their oaths, in the Bible, in their organization. Here in America we have the president saying that torture is okay and Sessions saying that oh yes, Guantanamo is a fine place. Really? Does he wish to vacation there, perhaps have a peek or two into some torture? The stressing of "radical Islamic terrorism" is harmful as it turns off half the world and pushes an entire group into one nasty category. The term leaves out the radical white terrorism or any other terrorism as well. Unfortunately, they too exist in this world.
We have a congressman who states the following: “There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves.”
He added that “morally, spiritually, socially,” the poor, including the homeless, “just don’t want health care.”
I swallowed real hard at that one. Are we back to the supposition and belief that if one is poor one is worthless, of no value, and deserving of whatever troubles he/she has? If G-d has not seen fit to allow them to enter into a moneyed class they are therefore, ipso facto, worthless? Shudder at that, folks, shudder hard.
Then we have the wonderful Congressmen in Washington who truly are humanitarians and care so much about their fellow men and the emphasis is on men, that they are arguing about having maternal and pre natal care in any healthcare program for after all, men have never given birth!! Truly. I kid you not and would that at least a few men would become pregnant and carry that fetus to term and then have a birth experience. Ha!! Wow, would things change around here! So we have the same ignorance, the same arrogance, the same misogyny and it shows up in the sex scandals of the websites on ALL the armed Forces branches. But make sure that Viagra is covered for men certainly need to release, do they not? I am nauseous. But not surprised. Not at all.
“corporatist, globalist media.” a global power structure.” Bannon promises the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” This is the new language we are hearing, a scary language which has echoes of fascism, of nativism, of a virulent populism that should shake one to the very roots. These terms are exclusionary and hateful. They ring in one's mind as reminiscent of terrible times in the history of the world and yes, even here in America. Bishop Fulton Sheen, extremist evangelical sects and militias, stormtroopers of the Bund, Charles Lindbergh, America First - all tied together and just look at the language as it spreads its poison throughout the world. Are we to say and accept that hatred has come to stay, that we should just accept it as people say, grin and bear it? That gets a resounding NO!!!!
We now have crooks and ethically challenged people in positions of power, in positions that allow them the right and power to dismantle all that had gone before, to ruin the air and the water, to destroy the land and the forests, to take away protection from workers and women and men, yes, men, and the poor and the refugee and the sick and the elderly and of course, the children, who will grow up in a world where food is not a given and health care is for sure not a given either. Nor will education be there either; just ask DeVos! We have liars who lied to Congress and then yowl unfair when they are caught. We have outright figures who work for foreign governments even as they were appointed to positions in the Trump administration and what does Trump do? Why he has Spicer deny any and all knowledge of that. So Trump is either the true ignorant fool who knows nothing - and oh yes, that part is true, or Trump is a malignant tumor on the American people as he knowingly appoints people who should not be there. And thank G-d there are people who will take up the baton, carry on in the race and take these people to court. So we have those who file against the ban. We have those who fight against Sessions and the ACLU lawyer who takes him to court and we have the sanctuary cities and we have more and more people who are waking up to the truth and the disaster we have wrought.
So whether Trump is being investigated and he suggested it himself, thereby inviting the thought and indeed the knowledge, that if he were indeed being investigated it is because the special court and judge found justification for that in the evidence presented to it. It is not easy to get that warrant for tapping and yet he is screaming to the heavens. Foolish man. But then again, we knew that already The further question is to realize that he is a dangerous and corrupt man, an ignorant man who wishes to bring his benighted world down upon the rest of us. And his representatives in public are no better; hence we get this from Spicer:
"When reporters asked him to reconcile the difference between his statements, Mr. Spicer insisted that there was none.
“Right, I mean I don’t know that they’re not interchangeable,” Mr. Spicer told reporters. “I’m not aware, I don’t believe. Look up in a thesaurus and find some other ways, but I don’t know that there’s a distinction there that’s noteworthy. But we’re not aware, I don’t believe that that exists.” Huh? Say what?
That beats the awkward statements of Bush any day and at least I knew that Bush was and is a patriot with the welfare of his country foremost in his mind. Yes, he made mistakes, but this dude? Oh my!!
Congressmen and other political figures are already discussing not impeachment, but the use of Amendment 25 which provides for the replacement of the president for lack of ability to carry out his responsibilities and Congress can do that thereby bypassing the Cabinet and all those spineless and ethically challenged people. The question is, though, will the spineless and unmanned people of Congress actually do that or will they keep thinking Party over Country? Whatever will be, we need to know that if nothing is done or the wrong thing is done, the many wrong things are done, then with the newly aroused spirit in people who will not take this sitting down we do not know what will be. I say again, along with others, wiser and smarter than I, that armed rebellion, fighting in the streets, a sharply divided country is not out of the picture.
Wake up, America. Hear the clear clarion call. No one has the right to say that he/she does not get involved in politics. Too late for that. Way too late.
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