FASCHMUTZED!!!!

     Wondering if I have lost all my spelling ability? Well, wonder no longer. The word is Yiddish and means all dirty and yes, it could mean a kid who comes in after playing in the mud, but it also means a person or thing or event that is also covered in dirt of another kind, one that reeks of smelly mud!
     Trump, the man and his behavior, the man and his words are faschmutzed. Midas had the touch of gold and this man has the touch of dross, turning all good into bad or suspect items. Last nite, a speech that put me to sleep three times, so dense was it and so boring was his delivery, so monotone, so flat an affect, actually said nothing at all in over an hour. Immigration. The same hate filled words, stressed over and over again and while it was an interesting idea to intersperse words with his 'show and tell' pony show, to parade two grieving couples in front of the nation - for what? To enhance prejudice? Does it mean that all immigrants are from gangs? Were there no gangs before them? Hey, there were even Jewish gangs back in the day!! Gangs are not good, but it is not a Salvadorian unique trait nor does it touch upon all immigrants.
     While we can do a dog and pony show of the immigrants who made successes of their lives here - including someone's grandfather - what is the point? This is America, the country that welcomes new blood, new thinking, new culture mixes, new people who add to the mix.
     What we do not welcome is a 'self made billionaire' who is not!! His multi million dollar stake came from his papa and the rest was made on the backs of those he robbed by non payment, by fake bankruptcies, by false advertising, by false hopes of a university. Self made? I think not.
     And while he supposedly stated he wants unity, he does not. Pelosi's face was a classic as he spoke of that. Not when all his prior deeds and statements were exactly the opposite. Not when he says one thing and then does another. Not when he is one of the nastiest people around, preferring to insult rather than charm. Who the hell knows what he will do today to subvert his own words. Just because he stayed on script does not make his presidential either. Even a monkey would, so they say, write a Shakespearian play given enough time. That does not make him Shakespeare!
     And yet the elephant in the room, the huge one, the one that had GOP written on it, was ignored. The elephant of the 'Russian thing", the one that will out  our Mr. Trump as a no goodnik, a liar, a traitor, an incompetent, a collusionist, just an all around baddie. Even his newly appointed Wray as Director of the FBI has asked him to not release the supposed memo for danger of classified information. But he cares not, only keeps trying desperate measures to avoid the truth coming out. And of course, he said he would interview, love to interview and yesterday he said uh uh. But all this was left on the back of the invisible but highly smelly elephant in the middle of the House floor!
     Yet there is hope. A new generation of Kennedys has spoken up and what a young man he is!! He spoke of the true meaning of America, of our country. He spoke of the need to remember civil rights and that all are worthy of it and of protection, not select people. We are not an autocracy but a democracy We need to remember that.
     Schmutz! Dirt!! Smelly, contaminated dirt. All versus the enthusiasm of youth, the freshness of youth, a change from the ancient old men running the country, the same men who allowed sexual harassment to exist, even using taxpayer money - yours and mine -  to pay off the victim and insist on non disclosure. A return to the values of our Founding Fathers and the values strengthened over the centuries of our existence. This man would not display the names of donors on a streaming version of the speech but that man, that Trump, so crass, so nyculturny, would do so, seeing all around only in terms of his bottom line.
     So yich, people, nix the smelly dude covered in mud, reeking of all that is no good, of lies, of selfishness, of hate, of disrespect even for his own wife and indeed, the rest of us. Watch what happens today and over the next few days as his new words and actions belie the words of his speech. Yich!!