AND SO IT BEGINS

     Milestone yesterday. Took my first Uber ride and still not sure how the details all work though the driver patiently explained it. Driver from Nepal, here for twenty years, came to America because it was a welcoming place, opened a restaurant, became part of the warp and woof of the country. Guess whom he did not appreciate? Guess whom he did not understand? Guess who frightened him? Me too!!!
     And so it begins. the backing off of the voices of condemnation for Trump's big stupid mouth with which he declared what was truly in his black heart - a hatred of others who are not like him, a refusal to accept that the world is changing and the old hates have to go, a refusal to acknowledge that there are no good Nazis and for Jerry Falwell, Jr. to say that in his heart Trump is a good person is not acceptable. It is not acceptable to equivocate about evil. There are no excuses that will work when marchers are flying Nazi flags and shouting about Jews. We were there before, many times, and know there is no good ending with that and it does not end with Jews for these people always need an enemy.
     Now we get polls that are telling us that Trump's numbers are not doing well. That is part and parcel of the "Fake News" about which Trump was tweeter shouting yesterday, the same twitter guy who could only say "that's too bad" about the McCain ship disaster with ten sailors missing and only two hours later found the time to twitter a keeping in our heart message. Again, too little too late.
     He is feeling the pinch, the desertion of those who voted for him, their embarrassment about their choice and the diehards who are refusing to admit the disaster Trump is, those who close their eyes to his nastiness, his danger, his oh so bad everything!! He is increasingly alone, embattled on all sides with thousands across the country going out and protesting again against him and his policies. His demeanor and face show that feeling when he is in an unguarded moment and at other times one sees the hostility in his tight and frowning face.
     As for me, I say good!! Either he changes in a huge manner or he goes, how who cares Let him resign, let him get censured as he deserves and then resign or then have him declared mentally unfit, unsuitable and unable to run a country. Let him go back to running his companies into the ground and not pulling their nuts out of the fire because he is president. He has now disbanded the environmental advice council as he does not need them, well on the way to destroying every regulation that was serving to save the ecology, the environment of the country and the world.
     We need a President! A man who will be the moral center and example for the country. A man who will keep his negative feelings to himself and give the country what it needs to regrow into what it once was or was becoming. A man who will be an American in every sense, every positive sense of the word and by the way, that man can easily be  woman.
     What have we done and what milestones are we reaching and passing? How do we get out of this mess. Three more years of this and we will not be the USA, not as we know it, not as it is supposed to be. Just finished reading Patterson's new book called The Store, a thinly disguised reference to Amazon and giving it the worst possible motives and nefarious plans and it truly rings true. Most of his recent books are below par, with so many just being shot down the chute, but this one is simple, easy to read and sends a simple message. We must be alert to what is around us. Big Brother is not so far away and quite possibly already here, nicely ensconced in our society and we do not even recognize it. We must watch people like Trump and his crew. Name me a good one in the bunch. Try hard and see how difficult it is. Prejudice and bias, nationalism and supremacy, business over morals, over country, selfish moves and an incestuous exchange and revolving door between lobbyists, industry shills and nabobs and Trump aides. Swampy indeed!! And if his base cannot recognize nor accept this as reality, even as they lose their jobs and get no retraining, even as they cannot harvest their crops because they have no workers but Trump does in his hotels, even as the hate divides us into a tribal society, no better than Afghanistan or Pakistan or one of many Arabian or African countries, if they cannot recognize him as the disaster he is, well, too bad as the rest of the country does and will.
     This drive to separate groups of electorates can be found right here in the Village as David strives to "show" and accuse those who oppose many of his foolish and wasteful plans. He attempts to push them off to the side, but it is not working and that is making him even angrier than ever, losing his temper even more and that is truly a sight to see - and laugh at.
     His garbage that he pushes is beyond belief. Once again confirmation was received from the tax office that the realty building is listed as zero value because that is how ALL non taxed buildings are listed but in  another category they ARE valued because one day their status  might change and therefore their value would be needed. The proof is in the pudding, in the faxes, emails and books of the tax office, David and his lies be damned.
     I, and so many others, are tired of lies and fake governments, fake public servants who cheat the people rather than serve them, who have desires that drive them, but these desires are theirs and not the people's. Beware his plans to completely take over all the media as it revives in the Village - the Rag, the TV, the announcements, the shows and tapes he puts on HIS blog, whatever makes him happy and secure in his back room.
     Milestones that mark a highway of life. They can be good or bad. We must make of them what we can and so when we look back we can say that so it began and so it improved and we were on the right road with the right milestones, in the country and in the Village.