MISMANAGEMENT? INDEED!!!

     The man from the new Know Nothing Party, a blast from the past of American history, the man who has rebirthed the Republican party into this horrendous joke of politics, this man has decided that the catastrophic fires in California are the result of gross mismanagement by California itself. It supposedly has wasted and diverted "massive" amounts of water, hence these fires. The climate changes, the increase in temperatures, the long lasting droughts, all seemingly have nothing to do with this. Huh! The mismanagement seems to be all on the side of Trump and minions as they deny the evidence of their own eyes and claim there is no environmental crisis. Ahem.
     Mismanagement of the once honorable party by its supposed leader, by the man who claims patriotism but really means nationalism, nativism, who cheats and lies, so much so that there is even a whole album (Walls by Barbra Streisand) dedicated to his lies and his egregious behavior, by the man who spouts hatred as easily as opening his mouth to breathe and talk, this man has destroyed his former party, turned it into the right wing, filled with spineless minions, Trump Party.
     This "patriot" could not even find it within himself to fulfill his responsibilities towards our veterans, our honored dead, and our allies of WWI for a bit of inclement weather frightened this man off. He cancelled the traditional placing of a wreath and paying honor to these heroes because of 'inclement weather'. Wonder if his 'bone spurs' were hurting him? Wonder if the heroes of the "Lost Battalion" of the Meuse-Argonne offensive of the last months of the war which had more than 26,000 dead, wonder if these actual heroes had the opportunity to beg off the fighting because there was a bit of rain in the forecast. It seems that Trump would prefer the forecast of meatballs and spaghetti from the kids' book! Shame on him and shame on him for his damned tweets wherein he miscommunicates his inner thoughts - if thinking is even possible - and radiates hate and incompetence with every click of a keyboard letter.
     And the minions of hatred continue to grow as they dare to crawl out of the primeval slime where they have lived lo these many a year. Ask Steven King about "dirt" - his term for immigrants now painfully walking, trekking, up from Central America towards a land that is supposed to be one of hope and dreams. He denied his statement and dared the reporter to play his 'supposed' audio recording and guess what? Hoist by his own petard and his hateful mouth as there it was!!
     Folks, we have got to get through the next two years in one piece. We have to deal with a Demented One who only wishes to push through more incompetent and unqualified and biased judges to the federal bench, all the better to cripple us for decades, all the better to encourage class warfare, a deep and divisive chasm among our citizens. We have to somehow negate the damage that the Senate can inflict upon us and we must somehow awaken some remnant of justice, of humanity, of moral courage among the spineless and hate filled Republican members of the actually newly born Trump Party.
     The call to bipartisanship was revealed as false and as two faced as its caller. His nefarious plans, his gross incompetence, will still be there for two years. We need to find and maintain our own inner and outer courage and keep our country, wobbly though it might be, on the right and American track. SOC - Save Our Country - is the theme for the next two years. Let us be Americans and America once more. Candle vigils are heartwarming, but we must stop the causes of those vigils in their tracks with education, gun control, humanity. Two years and counting. As the saying goes - we should all live so long!