Get the feeling lately that you are enmeshed in a nightmare from which you cannot escape? It is one that has you stuck, caught in an endless loop, in a dirty, untamed preschool, with rambunctious toddlers and tykes who cannot control their biting tendencies, their penchant for hitting and for foul language, and whose tantrums are monumental. Worst of all, these toddlers all have the faces of old white dudes with a few women mixed in, like McSally, along with the unfamiliar faces of the Ukraine and Russia, with many of the latter drooling at the thought of the spoils as they work the big bully of the class to their benefit. The cherry on top? Why that is the loony toon dudes escaped from the institution, most with the shifting faces of the bully's supposed legal advisers. Whew! And all this gets through the day even as no one notices the growing cracks in the foundation of the school or in the ever growing violence of the favorite dance - Loop de Loo, the most useless dance ever.
A parent watching this pre school over a nanny cam will be hard pressed to accept the fact that these terrors are their children. The faces are those characters whom we have allowed to gain traction in our world and that, my fellow dancers and parents, is manifestly OUR fault, for we allowed this farce to continue on way beyond its sell by date. We have ceded control to an openly defiant group of nasty toddlers who cannot see the trees for the forest nor the forest for the trees. There appears to be no way to negotiate with them, not candy, not praise, not shaming them, not truth, nothing and that has us up that proverbial creek without the paddle.
So ever onward in its repetitious loops, the toddler dancers go on, wasting time and breath. Even getting them corralled does not do the trick for they are busy ginning up excuses for the bully who has delivered them into a vise of his and their own making. They have followed lockstep behind him, allowing his perversions of a pre school, of a dance, to overwhelm all concerned.
There is a courtroom scene of a type in this nightmare. There are earnest people up at a podium who are pouring their hearts out, spewing forth data, fact after fact, truth after truth, re the bully but the bully's sycophants are enmeshed too deeply in his traps and there are earmuffs around their ears blotting out the truth, the words which should set fire to their souls. Yet - nothing!! All they seemingly seem to feel is the need, the deep and intense yearning, to bring this activity to a halt, so no permission to engage witnesses, to bring in more exhibits, to produce more evidence for time is afleetin' and they must return to their nefarious toddler activities lest they go through a painful withdrawal.
So, folks, what do we do? So far we have done nothing of a permanent nature. Trump is there at Davos as the world's leaders discount him, Ivanka is running around looking for breaks for the "working man" as long as that working man is in the top tax brackets, and looking to "reskilling" them. Huh! Retraining, reeducationg, enabling more educational benefits, and we can go on but I surely wonder who and what will do the 'reskilling' and who will pay for it while the you know who's benefit once again.
Oh, but not to worry, for the man who swore up and down he would not cut entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security just announced he would. Why? His induced mammoth growth of the national debt is now biting his ass and he needs to fix it, so, as usual, let's fix it by smashing those who need that safety net. Full confession - I make no bones about it, for I need both those entitlements to make my way through an ever declining physical state of health and a growing need for medications that grow ever more expensive overnight. As for those who go hungry in our nation, well, just look at him for vicarious gratification as he chows down on yet another fast food meal or a steak dinner at one of his golf clubs for which WE pay!!
And ever onward we dance, looping and kicking, in and out. The man swears he does not lie, so please disregard his over 15,000 lies and certainly the 14 lies he threw at us after he said he never lies. Such a clever dude. Not. Watch as the Republicans sweat to restrict the damage, ignore the words of Schiff, “This is why if you find him guilty, you must find that he should be removed. Because right matters. Right matters and the truth matters. Otherwise we are lost.”
We are at a crossroads in the history and future of this world and planet of ours. We ourselves are to blame if we allow our own country to go down this route to dictatorhsip, to a President who is a king, even possibly in name too as he will be allowed to do as he wishes, use the call of executive privilege to cover up all his wrongs, defame and abuse the Constitution, and stick to the policy of being above the law.
No one is above the law. No one. Period. End of discussion. No one is allowed to be a dictator here in the USA. No one, no matter how bloated the ego and useless the spineless and balless legislators are. They need to develop some moral cojones - ooohhh, a Spanish word. Mea Culpa!
We need better people at the helm, not an idiot who compares the issue of being pro choice to slavery and the pro or anti choices there. There is only one choice there, De Vos, you moron. Huh!! Or a President who natters away in a demented manner and just look at his answer about Musk. It ends up with a mishmash of nonsensical sentences that we must protect Thomas Edison and all those who produced the electric bulb. I kid you not! What about all the other dead genius people? Do we protect them too? Do we neglect a live genius and only protect him/her after death? The choices here are sooooo interesting.
No, our only choice, our last remaining choice before we consign ourselves to perdition, is to find this guy guilty, remove him from office, stomp on Pence so that he either shape up or he gets removed on the same grounds as his boss, and we prove to the rest of the world and to us that indeed, truth matters, right matters, and we have not forgotten that, no matter how dim its memory has become. We can and will come back - if, and only if, we cut the dance, discipline the children and reshape that pre school into a prize winning example to and for the world, and mostly, for ourselves.
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