IS THAT FOR REAL?

     Well, yesterday we all took a trip to Bizzaro land. As a teacher of Language Arts I shuddered at the incomplete sentences, the lies and accusations without backup, the non sequiturs, and the repetitions. It is one thing if there is someone in the world of private business or even a CEO of a company who is off the track, but when it is the President of the United States, one has to wonder: what the hell are we doing!
     We have no leader. That is clear. One that talks of the Republicans doing that thing, somehow connected in his fuzzy mind to the Civil War, is not normal. Even if we were to say that he knew what he wanted to say, he has lost the connection between mind and mouth, though I am fairly sure that his mind is damaged, severely so at this point.
     And here we go, back to the Admiral, the doctor to the White House, the alleged drunk, pill popping and dispensing doctor who is the one who tells us that Trump is just about in perfect health and his mind is sane. Uh huh! How could we trust this man's statements. I did not trust then and certainly do not now so now what? Can we demand that Trump get reevaluated? Hah! Try that. It might happen right after he releases his tax returns. Like the second Tuesday of the first week of the thirteenth month! Like never!
     The admission in his phone interview that he knew Cohen was representing him with Stormy Daniels - whoops! Still talking over who has a bigger - what? as he compares himself to the North Korean leader, such a good way to enter negotiations by demeaning your talk partner. Wow! I am so underawed once again by this damaged man.
     What I think, at least to me and many others, is the policy of the Homeland people, the ICE people, the Border Patrol that is truly indicating how low we have fallen. That is to take the children of immigrants and separate them from their parents. The age does not come into play, just rip them out of the arms. What is next? Will they follow this Nazi path, this path of horrendous destruction of children that we see in other countries? So what? Will they shoot these pesky kids? Slam their heads on the ground? Oh, for sure, that will teach the parents a lesson! No one will want to come here any longer, to such a cruel country, one that eats its inhabitants and those who wish to be among the inhabitants.
     What is even worse is that these kids receive no care, no help, in dealing with their situation. So one has little kids sitting and staring into space, or crying, refusing to eat, cannot sleep, all wondering where is their parent, they want their mommy or daddy. But  nope, must punish them. Must punish the parents. And worse, the Department has now lost track of almost 1,500 of these children. Did they run away? Were they killed? Are they living on the streets? Are they being used as slave labor as they found in one situation?
     And to add insult to so many injuries, Trump, the madman, the anti democratic leader of the largest democratic country in the world, threatens that he is going to take over the Justice Department, that it is his!!!! NO!! Most assuredly and emphatically no!!! It belongs to the people and this man has so twisted it that it is almost unrecognizable and the fact that he can find people wishing to do these things - well, do not say it cannot happen here for it is happening, Right now!
     As a last straw, hear the words and meaning of the Solicitor General who defended that awful immigration ban. When Justice Kagan posed a hypothetical question about a hate filled president who has animus in his heart, states that people from Israel cannot be admitted into the country. What then, she asked and the lawyer responded that the president had every right to do that, to say that, to enforce that and just get the Cabinet to agree, but even so, if that is what the president wants then we must give it to him for it is now law! No matter that it is wrong. Has this man not read history? Is he so ignorant of the difference between even questionable laws, legal according to the moment, and immoral behavior, the fact that we must distinguish between legal and moral? Or is he saying that all the people in Nazi Germany, all the killers of the Tutsi, all the slaughterers of the Yazidi, the Rohingya, are doing the legal thing and it is okay. Never mind that it is wrong with a capital W. Never mind the history of mankind on this issue. Thus we all become complicit in this horror or we need to fight against it.
     We need to come to our senses, people. And the first step is to depose the most dangerous man at this point. Impeach, convict, convince to resign, whatever, but get him gone and get Pence to understand what he can and cannot do, what the people of this country will tolerate and what not.
     Is that for real? Is this for real? Unfortunately so.