SO WHAT'S NEW?

     Nothing. That is the answer. We are still in a shutdown, the President continues to hallucinate communications from federal workers who rabidly support him for the wall and happily work without pay. Uh huh. Like a child, he thinks he pulled one over on everyone with his 'surprise" trip to a war zone but it was actually telegraphed in so many ways. He can't even pull that off!
      And speaking about his trip- let's take a look at it. He knew damn well he was going, long planned, so what was this whining that he was "all alone" and he was waiting so impatiently for Melania to join him? What a crock! And what about the trip, Bonespur? Please note that the vast majority of pics are showing him surrounded by our young men and women so he is never alone and never or hardly ever seen outside, only inside buildings, and anyone with nefarious plans would have had to go through a humongous crowd. Old Bonespur made sure that he would remain safe from any physical harm and never mind the danger to his buffers! He whines that "you should have seen what we went through in the darkened plane." Really? Truly, is he going to whine about being in the luxurious Air Force One? Maybe he should go in commercial coach flight next time!
     In the end year assessments, Trump comes out as a real piece of work. We hear no more talk of 'becoming presidential' or of growing expertise or more mature behavior. We have the over 7,000 lies and growing that he has told with brazen indifference to the idea of truth and transparency. He is a President who would be dictator, the essential ruler of a country whose demands are rubberstamped by a captive Congress and Judiciary. Worst of all is the division he has caused in this country and actually, even into the world at large. He has legitimized hatred and excess as American policy, domestic and foreign and shows no regret from the harm he has caused others even as he continues to defy science and its information re climate change and environmental problems that have arisen and will continue to accelerate.
     With all his garbage behavior, with his lies, with his insanity, with his tantrums and infantile behavior, what sticks most in my craw is his war on children and the helpless. He denigrates all who do not look like him or do not have his money, funds that he received ALL his life from his father who snatched him from the brink of ruin many a time, contrary to his lies.
     He continues to shame women and crow about past behavior with them. He spits on the American basic principle of welcoming immigrants. He calls them all sorts of names and accuses them of so many crimes including terrorism. Isn't it great that we have so recently brought about the death of two 'terrorists, seven and eight, so breathe freely, America! And we continue to lock up teen migrants between 13 to 17 in highly guarded tent cities, overgrown and crowded and there are over 2,000 alone in the tent city in the desert.
     What the hell is new this year? Nothing! His backers seem to end up in jail or court, the latest being the hatemonger with the "deportation bus" who is now in jail for insurance fraud. Perhaps we need to ship him out of the country!!
     Our only hope is that Congress, the new House, can and will do what they must and very carefully. We can only hope and pray that the Republicans come back to their senses,find a moral spine and the remnants of courage that remain somewhere buried inside. We can work hard to push back the threatening growth of clouds of prejudice and hatred that are growing apace. 
    In fact, there is more of the old than the new in this upcoming year. We have made amazing progress as a nation before, and we must return to that proud heritage. We must come back to our senses. That would be a great new New Year! And by the way, for the Grinch out there who tweeted crap at Meghan McCain for her wishing her father a Merry Christmas wherever he is, go to hell, you idiot. There are so many of us who miss our parents and talk to them or send messages from the heart, many unvoiced, but there all the same so grow up, Grinch! Actually, we all need to grow up this coming year, do we not?