So remarked the governor of Virginia after Trump decided to go after him, calling him crazy, as wanting the ruination of the Second Amendment and worst of all - leaving no one to guard the potatoes on the farms of Virginia. May sound funny but think again.
The undignified picture of a president calling a governor names is typical of a day here at the ranch known as the WH but it is sickening. There is just no dignity at all in this Trump administration. No wonder the behavior of the average Republican member of Congress has deteriorated to a national level of shame and disgrace. As has the behavior and demeanor of most, if not all, of the Republican political people round the nation.
What has happened to their potatoes? It seems that one night some dark creature of the night stole into the bedroom of all GOP politicos and removed their brains, substituting some evil substitute which made them creatures with neither will nor values, only the imperative to obey the Master - Trump. And so the dissolution of America in all that makes it America continues apace.
That same governor calls upon his life experiences to take Trump to task. He grew up on a farm and is a doctor, the only doctor, among the governors of the nation. He warns Trump that he should not be taking hydroxy. Me, on the other hand, Heaven forbid we tell him not to oblige his craziest whim! Could be worth it, well worth it, as we learn some excellent lessons from the whole mishmash.
Actually, the man is such an inveterate liar, always trying to look like a hero and a genius, and looking more like a geni-ass, simply is remaining true to that role and is lying about taking the drug. He is a coward to the bone so why would he risk his life? Or perhaps he thinks he will show the world how brave he is, sacrificing himself in the name and benefit of his nation. If he dies - then so be it.
But is he really taking it, risking life and limb? This liar? This coward? Bet he is not and so do many others. Like taxes and death, most doctors feel that the only two outcomes of misuse of this drug are death and a need for ventilation. So full speed ahead! Go, boy, go!
Why am I so angry? It is because before we get the chance to throw him and his out of office in November, we have too much time wherein he can continue to rain down ugliness upon this nation. Ugly black painted walls - billion dollar plus contract given to a big donor buddy -through the rugged beauty of the mountains of Arizona. All in the name of hate. All in the name of ignorance as we now have no workers to reap, no workers to prepare foods, and a growing loss to farmers even as people go hungry and desperate in that hunger, in that need to feed their children. But the man is a geni-ass! Just ask him.
He can continue to push and impose upon us his crooked, incompetent, dangerous nominees for offices of the nation, for seats on the bench, for robbing this nation blind. All done with arrogance and assuredness, full speed ahead, for they have the encouragement, the backing, of the president, and a great role model he is for them!! In the meanwhile, my nation is being destroyed from within, we being our own worst enemy.
Yet another Executive Order making it a free for all as he instructs us all to cancel any and every safety regulation, all the safeguards put in place so that industry does not kill us with chemicals, with smog, with polluted and poisoned waters, air to breathe or land to live upon and die from! He has the backing of fatcats of all ilks, of quack doctors gathered to support his twisted medical theories. But he is a geni-ass. Just ask him. His plans and answers are always harmful to us, worse than useless and yet, he still has believers, apparently brain dead, zombies with no thoughts at all. How can one believe in a man who insists that having over 1.5 million cases of the virus is a "badge of honor"!!!! SICK!!
The brazen attempts to cancel voting rights for so many, mostly people of color, or Democrats, in order to remain in office. The outright destruction of our very fabric of life, of nationhood, of Americanness! And even so, as he does his twisted best to destroy us, to pull his own Beer Hall Putsch, we continue to have many farms, rural and urban, whose potatoes and their growers, are just fine. The love of liberty, true liberty, not the false one of masks or no masks and how this decision is politicized, will continue to feed that spark of a true America, truly the United States of America.
But we must earn it, win it back, before he and his manage to impose rules canceling term limits, approving nepotism, fatcat privilege, limited healthcare - and trust me, it ain't so great right now! Before we truly have a fertile national ground for class division and war. Before justice becomes a bad joke here. Before education becomes open for only that privileged class and the rest are consigned to worthless slavelike positions for life, to be cogs in a system of drudgery, of manifest unfairness, of evil galore.
Seeing sharks around? Just look back at the many examples in history where this has happened. Do not even have to go to the past, for just look at so many nations of the world where democracy has been buried once again and terror rules the lands and nations. Is that what we want, what we wish for our kids, as our legacy to our descendants? I hope not.
So let us go dig our own potatoes. Let us guard them ourselves. They will be fine if we but do our job, fulfill our responsibilities and practice true patriotism, the one which will allow us all to sing the national anthem with pride and heartfelt emotion. I long for that day. I pray for that day. I hope that this period of time under Trump's twisted thumbs and mind is only a short lived aberration in our national history, not our lasting legacy.
As we all struggle to Be Well and Stay Safe, we must remember that mantra works for our country as well. We must not forget that. Else what use the struggle? Be Well Stay Safe and keep our country so too.
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