WHAT A LOAD..

     So here we are, awaiting the day's testimony with bated breath. Or are we? Are we just waiting to hear the useless bombast of the hot air balloons masquerading as representatives of the people of these here United States of America? The more I read, the more I realize the hopelessness of it all as the committees are all coming to the fray with preconcieved notions and ideas and the Trump administration, as usual, has tried to block the whole damn thing by writing a love note to Mueller telling him basically to shut his mouth. They have given 'presumptive presidential privilege" to the whole mess, just as they have done for all else in the disgusting mess that is Trump, both pre and during his presidential years - if I can even ascribe that term to these years - as presidential, - so far is he from that idea and personhood.
     This administration is so busy trying to deconstruct all the good that has gone before that they cannot see what is happening in this country. More debt for the country? Sure! More tax cuts for the already filthy rich? Sure, why not? Making a fake effort to cut the debt of the nation? Not a problem. Let's go after those security threats, that dishwasher raising two American born children, or that three month old brought in on his father's back over 1,000 miles so he can  have a future. Or what about those greedy people, yes, American citizens, even white - (gasp) - who are eating on our dime? Yeah, getting food help, supplemental aid. So let's just take that away. The kids will cry at night from empty bellies? Well, let the parents do something. Oh, no jobs or awfully low wages for them? Well, we have decided that no one needs help if they are a family of four and make about $32,000 a year!  Unbelievable!!! Wonder if they ever tried to do that!!
     This whole Trump administration treats their time in office as the perfect time to legally raid the country and make more money for themselves and their families and friends. You know, the family and friends discount, and cronyism and nepotism! Qualified? Nah, but what difference does that make? Just pull the curtain of presidential privilege over the whole criminal mess asnd home free!! Olly, olly, ox in free!! (Hope that is how it is spelled.)
     And the Democrats are not much better here, even if for the most part they are on the right side of this mess. But they, too, allow racism from some mouths on their side of the aisle and do not slam down on it properly. They muddle around, like a herd of buffalo, wondering what to do next? Should they continue to run in circles or perhaps run right over the edge of the cliff? Does it really make a difference?
     We need a leader, a fearless leader, one who will rip away the curtain of nastiness and greed that shields the Republicans right now, especially their chief alleged criminal in charge. We need a hero who will remake the Democrats into the people of courage they should be and renew (can it be done?) the Republican Party, returning it to its roots as the party of Lincoln, and not tyrant wanna be's and cowardly followers of a master of their fate!!
     Bad news all around and stupidity reigns. Parents are chided because they cannot afford to pay for school lunch so a generous CEO steps in and offers to pay the debt of $22,000. The school board? Nay, it says! Those parents will pay or their children will go hungry!! What a load of crap, folks, and what a load of supposed leaders we have chosen or allowed to run the place. Many times I think how we are reaping what we have sown, that we are getting our just desserts!!
    But can we not try to get out of these messes? Russia and China are at it again, bosom buddies and I wonder, I really do, when this will turn into an open triumvirate when Trump comes all the way out of his political closet. I wonder when the world will blow up and trust me, the desk will not protect you! I wonder when people will fully, if ever, come to their senses.
     So am I hopeful about today's hearings? Perhaps, if Mueller pulls that stick out of the portion of his anatomy where it has gotten stuck, ignores the self serving letter and threats of the Justice Department and tells the truth, the whole truth!! If he does that, if the  Democrats do what they are supposed to do and do not waste the day with hot air and bombast, and if the Republicans finally and openly accept what they acknowledge to themselves in private, that their leader is a crook, a collusionist, an obstructor of justice, well, then, maybe. But, sorry, folks, I just do not see that happening. Not today. I wonder if ever.