What a day for feelings yesterday. Waking up in a bit of a fog, then writing one's way out of it, waiting on tenterhooks for Mueller to speak, worried about the conclusions to be taken from his remarks, enjoying a few hours with friends, and then back home to more news and more feelings.
Mueller's little talk can be reduced to simply this - woulda, shoulda, but couldn'ta. Not sure why a president should be above the law, not be prosecuted for crimes committed at some time, before or during his tenancy in the Oval Office, but so a Justice Department memo states.
What to do now? Mueller could have stated openly that Trump was guilty of obstruction and other crimes, but left a broad hint, like hitting someone over the head with a ten foot pole to gain one's attention, that Trump should be held to account by other ways allowed - dum de dum dum - meaning impeachment. He also stated that if they could have proven Trump innocent they would have said so, so.... another dum de dum dum as we realize the import of that statement and the dire warning that closed his little speech about the interference in our 2016 elections.
So folks, are we going to sit on our hands, twirl on our thumbs, sit there with mouths agape and do nothing, just remain stunned at the import of these words and conclusions? I have said from day one that this man was not our legitimate president and others have also so stated, so why the hell is he still there with his potty mouth, imbecilic and dangerous behavior, folded arms across his chest as he tantrums away with the world leaders, as he threatens to topple our state in favor of yet another nationalistic, nativist, hate filled dictatorship? What are we to do? What are we going to do?
Perhaps we had better heed the words of China - "Don't say we didn't warn you." This is a very ominous statement, especially as China used these very terms before two prior wars of theirs and in the meanwhile our economy via the stock market, via so many store and plant closings and resulting layoffs is going right down the drain, touching right now on a bear market and on inversions. Dangerous territories and what are we going to do? Are we going to allow a man of questionable intellect and maturity to run us down a long and destructive path? A man who is so infantile that on a trip to Japan he wanted the ship and/or the name of that ship - the USS John S. McCain - to be hidden, moved, covered up!!!
What a feeling to be living through this period of history, perhaps the dying era of our great experiment of democracy. What a feeling to be worrying for the next generation and the ones to follow. What a feeling to be worried as a Jew for Israel and for the safety of my people here and all over the world in their own native countries as the filth of anti Semitism begins to swamp us.
And what a feeling of disgust as one realizes that even should the House indict the creep in their impeachment activities, the Senate invalidates all the efforts as the Republican majority there has lost all and any semblance of dignity, of morality, of truth and of love of country. Every damn one of them seems to have lost any recognition of right versus wrong and chooses party over country. Perhaps Amash might lead a few to the true New World we now need, but I am pessimistic and then what? Certainly their behavior re all the incompetents that are being pushed through for judgeships, the behavior of then during the creep Kavanugh's hearing, the rabid mouthings of theirs re LGBTQ, women's rights, the ability to choose to control one's own health decisions- considering all this and more, the corruption of the entire Cabinet, the low level of candidates for office, well, the feeling ain't so good.
I am worried, very much so. I do not like the feelings of dread that I have re our country. I do not like how our administration is not only ignoring climate changes and the causes, but are practically ready to restate that the earth is flat and the sun revolves around us!! Galileo! Galileo!
Wish I had better and more optimistic feelings to convey over to my readers - to my own self - but that is not to be, not now anyway. What a feeling!
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