WELL, THERE YA' GO!!

     Is there an end to this seemingly eternal nonsense of the worst type? Is there no end to the gall, the chutzpah, or the plain lack of any morals whatsoever? I am beginning to doubt this as I sit and read the overnight news and an analysis or two. It is almost with a saddened sigh that I mumble to myself, "Well, there ya' go again."
     How many more egregious violations of the rules - of the law - do we need to finally make the figuratively blind and deaf understand what they are missing, what dangerous edge they are on. The other day the protective covering of one of those glass tourist ledges cracked as people were standing on it. Well, that protective covering over our democracy has long ago cracked and the very basis or foundation it was supposed to be protecting is in dire danger - as are the people of this country standing on it!
     I hate lies. I hate people telling lies. I think it debases both liar and the one to whom the lie was told. It is an inference from the liar that the others are too stupid to recognize a lie right in front of them. It shreds the bonds of trust, the same bonds that we are supposed to have as we run this country. We have, by now, reached the point in this country, that we cannot believe a single word the President or his minions utter.
     Kellyanne Conway, a liar of first class dimension, a violator of the Hatch Act which forbids administration people from political activity, lies through her bloody teeth, blood stained with the lifeblood of our country. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is called a hero by the chief liar, Trump, as she leaves office and then, believe it or not, says she is not ruling out running for office. Terrific! Just what we need. Another frigging liar in office.
      And then we have the lies that are really existential threats. It is one thing when Trump states that farmers and ranchers were crying like babies - they were not crying nor laughing, just clapping - when he signed a ruinous water bill. The proof was in the pudding of the pictures of the moment, but on he lies! But the latest "proof" offered to show that Iran is removing a mine from a ship's hull, blurry and difficult pictures to interpret, well, remember the proof of the attack in the Tonkin Gulf that really blasted us into full war in Vietnam? The lie that it proved to be. Well, history does repeat and I, for one, do not believe a word this administration says nor the proof it purports it has. They lie through their teeth when pictures prove them wrong, so why do I believe anything they say or show? And the consequences are horrific as they seem to push us every day in every way further along on a warpath, a terrifying prospect when one thinks of the weapons and the madmen running both countries.
     When and where do we finally call a halt to this? When and where do we say - there ya' go again and finally there is a nod of understanding among the formerly deaf and blind who now see and understand the peril that Trump has led us into. When? Why not now? I truly fear lest the point of awakening be far too late, past the point of no return, and we, America as it was, as it should be, as it was struggling to be, is and will be no more.
     So a major business indicator has now tanked. Tariffs and threats rule the day. The market is wildly variable, untrustworthy. New laws are passed which again, target the poor guy, the middle class guy who manged to save a bit to pass on to his/her kids. Candidates seem more interested in screaming and gaining attention than in defining themselves, the country and where we need to go. We hear remarks of age, of gender, of orientation, on broad categorizations, but we hear very little of the words trust, trustworthy, honest, sane, transparent, capability, loyalty and patriotism of the true kind, and  very few details of plans and platforms.
     Megan Rapinoe, star of the Women's Ntional Soccer Team that will hopefully kick ass, stands at proper attention in silence, when the National Anthem is sung. She does not kneel. She does not showboat. But she also does not sing the words. "The anthem is 'a somber moment' for a 'peaceful protest' of inequality and injustice throughout the United States." Think about that. Think again and again. The United States that we knew growing up, that we saw progress, the country that we know needs to further improve - that country is no more. It is turning into a country that is turning in its democratic principles for a sad return of cowardice, moral weakness, stupidity and cupidity, of derogatory treatment of all 'others' and that includes women as well , and I, for one agree with Rapinoe and I, who loves this country, I, too, have stopped singing the anthem for this is no longer the country in which I took such pride, no longer the country which welcomed my grandparents and great grandparents, no longer the country that provided refuge for those who needed it, hope for those drained of it, a future for those lacking it. Where is that country? Well, there ya' go - it is passing us on the wrong side of the street. Wave goodbye,quick, before it is too late. Perhaps we can signal it and get it back on the right side and then, then I will open wide and sing out with pride.
      Finally, go women!! Soccer team rules!