COPY THAT? PLEASE DON'T

     Sad. Anxious. Confused and bewildered. Fear of the future - or if there is one.
     These are the emotions that are not only afflicting me, but also much of America and the world, especially its leaders. We are living thru such a time that has never been seen before, an almost total repudiation of the responsibilities of the American President, particularly to the people, and the pointed dissemination of ravings that border on the jingoism of the past in its urging and telling of war, war between the "Dems and the R's!" This is not what America is all about but this is what Trump and cohorts have made it become.
     The elephant in the room today is the bated breath of the millions as we await Robert Mueller's first indictment. Who will it be? A family member? A political ally? An underling of the administration and/or the campaign? What will be the proximity towards Trump? And what will it mean for the nation? Will it come close enough to the presidency to actually possibly interfere with its reality and existence?
     Trump is reacting by behaving as a maddened child backed into a corner, shouting epithets and threats as he behaves as if the whole world is against him. Well, perhaps they are, but if so, he has earned this by his behavior, by his infinite lies, by his repudiation of all that keep Americans safe, from predatory banks and lending institutions to environmental regulations designed to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, to the land that belongs to all of us.
     He has encouraged postures of war both here within the country and without. It should not be the Dems vs the R's. It should not be a positing of the wealthy against the middle class and it most certainly should not be majorly screwing the lower economic classes by taking away their safety net from benefits to healthcare to educational possibilities for them and their children. When it was pointed out to Trump that his supposed tax reform would stick it to the middle class, he waved it off, literally, and tells the Republicans at the meeting to 'take care of it." It is no wonder that his approval number is the lowest ever - 38%.
     The man is a disaster, not in the making, not in the offing, but in reality, in his present existence as the President of the United States of America, of the supposed to be leader of the free world. Instead we have him picking wars with any and all, from football players who are now told they are inmates of a prison, to the mayor of San Juan and the people of Puerto Rico who are still living in the deep heat of an airless, wrecked environment, getting sick from the water, still dying from a hurricane of weeks ago, supposed to be satisfied with thrown towels and a crooked contract for restoration of electricity. The corruption of this administration has risen to alarming proportions and we are sinking beneath its weight.
     Maryland is investigating the Kushner empire there for its behavior and alleged violations of rules relating to tenants and physical condition of its holdings. Bannon is going after a Trump donor who crossed his lines and Trump is well aware of this. Talk of inmates running the asylum!! Who should be in the asylum?
     And if all this is not enough, we add to all these negative emotions and fears this statement by Kissinger. “It cannot be that North Korea is the only Korean country in the world that has nuclear weapons, without the South Koreans trying to match it. Nor can it be that Japan will sit there,” he said. “So therefore we’re talking about nuclear proliferation.”
     Is it all to end in a nuclear catastrophe and then it will not matter who is screwing whom, will it?
     And for all of this, for all these actions or lack thereof, we say - Do not copy that! It is time to make the president and his henchmen realize that they are truly alone out there, that he is NOT our president and time for him to go. Would that Mueller would come up with a Trump indictment. When the fuss would settle down, there would be a combined breath of relief. And hopefully, Pence would have gotten the message loud and clear. Or so we hope. So we pray.