It is indeed easier to believe that we are in the middle of a movie or song than in real life. The guy at the head of it is just nuts, but more alarmingly, he is dangerously nuts. Alec Baldwin did another master feature last nite on SNL but the sad truth is that while in jest, it is horrifyingly true. Oh, not the aliens, but the attitude toward handling a crisis and the non sequiturs of this man, the uselessness of him in any important issue or manner and his ego concentrated thoughts.
What is not so funny is the police state that we are evolving or rather devolving into. More and more information on websites is being taken offline, all the better to allow for his dangerous plans, the dangerous plans of the GOP, to come to fruition with no way to get around it or pass information through, So there is a huge network of librarians and researchers and skilled techies who are archiving so that the information does not vanish. Tie this in with the man and his crew shrieking about unfair media and your hair on your neck should be standing up.
And it does not end there either. There was a night, or rather a day, of the long knives, and 46 federal prosecutors were asked to resign. One had the courage to defy that and so he was fired,.This man was an example par excellence of what a good and true prosecutor does and was a fearsome figure to the corrupt. Hint, hint. Wonder why he was fired? Getting too close to the corruption and treason to be found in Trump's administration? I think so, I most definitely do. Preet Bharara is certainly a man of honor as opposed to Trump et al.
Trump cannot stay on topic unless it is about his love/hate relationship with Arnold or anything else to do with him. He wanders the White House looking for a smile from tourists and now we hear that Tillerson is being cut out of political and foreign negotiations and who is there at all these meetings? Why none other than the unelected shadow president, the young whippersnapper who was never elected, Jared Kushner and Ivanka shows up as well. These people are not the President nor is Bannon and they act and cut out Trump from the loop. Guess they know better than all of us how uselessly dangerous he is in real life and how useless he is at making decisions that do not rest upon hate and veniality.
In fact, the entire administration is rife with crooks with conflicts of interest and people who are diametrically opposed to the values that their departments stand for. So the FDA guy is one who has had long relationships with drug companies and every single one of these appointees or nominees smells to the high heavens and yet there they go straight into office and there go our protections. Never mind La Vida Loca - we are living the real disaster movie never made before - the disintegration of the United States of America.
How much more of our rights and constitutional privileges are we going to give up? How many more disastrous weeks is it going to take for a political power to say enough! Let us now get him gone. Will it take a revolution in the streets? Will it take four years during which we, the USA, will become a third world disregarded contemptible country. Will it take years during which our population dies off, but guess that does not matter since they are the poor and hence the unworthy. Will it take years during which the world unites against us and cuts us off from trade and we return to the days of charcoal and hand products as we cannot get new parts nor new materiel from the rest of the world? And make no mistake about it - this is where we are headed and seriously, I really do not know if we could ever come back from that. Now just think about the rest of the world and what becomes of it when it loses the moral compass and power of the USA. Yes, we are not perfect, but till now we have led the fight for the rights of all humanity, for moral behavior, for aid to those in need, for programs such as the Peace Corps and Volunteers for America. So who will now feed the hungry children of Appalachia and indeed the rest of the country and the world but oops, my bad, they do not matter for they are the poor. They do not want health care. They do not want to feed their children. They just want Trump. Ask him, for he will tell you the very same thing.
We laughed at him in the campaign. And we laugh at him now but who will get the last laugh? Will it be Ryan in his madcap and obsessive fight to repeal the ACA and impose the tremendously unfair and just bad plan of the GOP? Will we all be living in a hand to mouth world? You see, humor is the spice of life but there is a great deal of truth in humor and we need to start seeing that as well. There are numerous organizations out there who are organizing, protesting and refusing to just lay down and die. Go to Indivisible or idnyc.gov. Help an immigrant, Help a terrorized mother afraid to be separated from her children. Speak out and up. Protest the harm to the environment. Sit in again. We did it before and we can do it again. We got rid of presidents before with the power of the people and we can do it again. There is hope, but it needs human power, a human engine to achieve that hope and its results.
And do not forget local politics as well. Write to Brian Mast who tells us he is concerned with health care? Really? When you stated that you were a Trump person all the way? So write to him, demand that he vote for his constituents and not his own self. Write to Rubio.Write to all local people for there are state laws that can counter the federal destructive trends. And do not forget our own UCO and the bad for us administration of David Israel where here too hatred and words of nastiness are encouraged, where there is exclusivity rather than inclusiveness. It all begins with the man in the mirror - you. Do not disappoint us. Do not forsake your grandchildren.
And by the way, where are the tax returns?
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