WHAT DOES ONE SAY?

     Facing the blank "sheet" of paper this morning, I took refuge in solitaire! I truly did not know what I wished to write about or discuss. Does one go back into the history of today or the history of yesteryear that is still very much a part of today? Even as I write this I am still not sure, so let the letters fall where they may.
     As usual, the night brimmeth over with Trump news, much of which I did not catch last nite - gotta turn the news off some time if one is to remain sane!! Now the Nutty President has done it again. He wrote the letter, or dictated it to Junior and here we go again. Is there no way, no manner in which to get thru his thick skull that this is a government, not a store, nor a hotel business nor a casino that nobody will much care if it goes bankrupt. But it seems as if we have a morally bankrupt administration in place such as we have not seen for well over a hundred years. Closer to two hundred as a matter of fact.
     This man was a mistake, a serious one, an error of judgement and an error of history. Yesterday I saw a very interesting thing on Facebook. A voter for Trump now liked a site that was looking for signatures for Pence for President!! Wow!!! This was a rabid Trumper, majorly so!! But I am not sure that is a good idea anyway, the man with the glued on hair as opposed to the comb-over dude.
     And does this Nutty President get indicted, brought to the defense table in a courtroom or does he get impeached or a combo of such? But what I do know is he has got to go. The jaws of the word's leaders are stuck on the floor at present wondering if there was something in the air or the water over and in America that this man is now in office - invalidly, I still maintain.
     This man has no control over his mouth and his tongue is directly connected to his mind, such as it is, and 'shooting from the hip" takes on new coloring with this guy. What he does not realize  is that as much as  he looks like a fool, as much humor and material as he gives to all the talk shows and the columnists, it does not trump (sorry) the danger he has fostered with his stupid bigmouth.
     Today is a day when millions of Jews will be fasting and praying, enjoying no luxuries, for today is the day when we mourn the destruction of both Temples, yes, those buildings that stood there proudly on Temple Mount, way before the mosque. The hurt, the pain, is still felt strongly for this Mount is intertwined with our history as a people, in our religion, and its loss - and the dream of its rebuilding is always there.
     There is a telling story that after the destruction, Rabbi Akiva, a great Rabbi of the people, the man who gave us the theology of Love Thy Neighbor as you do yourself, was walking thru the ruins, accompanied by another Rabbi. Both were weeping but then Rabbi Akiva suddenly laughed and laughed. Shocked, the other Rabbi questioned his behavior and Rabbi Akiva stated that he should see the foxes roaming the ruins as it had been prophesized and surely, if that piece of the prophecy came true so would the rest - the rebuilding and the return of the people to their homeland. 
     So Jerusalem is of utmost importance to us and yet president after president has made political hay of it, promising  a recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, united once again. Many American Jews and supporters of Israel decided to buy into Trump's statement of how he would do that. And voted for him, ignoring all else. Uh huh!! Guess what. Never happened to the present day in all the disasters of the moment.
     And that motormouth evidently needed an infusion of fuel when there was utter silence after the awful slashing death of three people in Halamish in Israel, no condolences, no promises of aid, no condemnation. Nope, but there was another ridiculous tweet sniping at the Senators that he "had carried over the line on his back." So much for fair play, for concern. He signed a  deal with Iran or approved what was, he signed another deal with Russia that left Hezbollah right on the border with Israel, and not a peep from the American or Israeli audience. Wow, if Obama had done that there would have been a total uproar. But people want to believe what they want to believe and overlook anything that does not fit their vision of what they see the world to be. As they wish it to be seen.
     His mouth moves as it wishes, as his brain misfires and sparks another outrage and we fall yet closer and deeper to a total quagmire. North Korea is at the breaking point and all this bluster and all these threats that try to top each other are leaving us at the very edge of not a very good place at all. Do we go into nuclear winter because two nut jobs could not control their egos and their mouths?
     The mouths of people all that long time ago, the mouths that argued amongst themselves and left them weak before their enemies and the mouths of today, the mouth of that man in the Oval Office, the man with a huge panel of lawyers now to protect him from his misdeeds and missteps - these mouths need to be controlled, their owners to learn some self control and remember their place in life. A lesson learned.
     And words once sent out cannot be taken back. We should be rough with people arrested, we are told, never mind that is against protocol and these people are innocent of all until proven guilty. And now they try to backtrack and have Sanders calling it a "joke". W are not laughing!! Woe upon one of us should we fall into this cesspool  of a world where democracy and human rights are more observed in the breach than in the observation and keeping of them.
     Words that are condemning us to a terrible end should this violation of the environment continue. The latest? The tundra, the frozen permafrost in Russia is melting, with huge sinkholes and the last time this happened - 130,000, years ago!! But let's just ignore it and keep heating up the planet. Let us ignore reality and see things as we wish them to be. Let us go chasing after the naked emperor and his naked courtiers. Let us keep playing peek a boo with reality.
     Our leaders are to blame and we are to blame for allowing them to be our leaders. While this man is so completely NOT my president, he is to others and even as they grow in disapproval of him and his actions, his statements, we are stuck! But good!! There appears to be no good solution. Perhaps if Trump were to be impeached, indicted and sentenced, then Pence and anyone else in the administration would watch their steps and think, really think, before they moved on with an agenda that is un-American and just plain wrong and in defiance of reality. Perhaps.
     Mouths and poor leaders and poor followers lost us our Temples for we did not learn first time around either. Mouths and poor leaders, even criminal leaders, and poor gullible followers ad people who just stand there have gotten us into this situation right now and left us standing there with a way out fast disappearing.
     What does one say? HELP!!!!
And by the way, we can use some help here in the Village. That's for sure!