Remember the educational game with Carmen Sandiego, she of the big hats and the geographical hiding places? Fun and knowledge at the same time. A great bargain. Today, it seems as if we have our own and newer versions of that hunt for the missing person game. How lucky can we get!
First we have that minor problem of a President increasingly hiding behind ever growing barriers, sealing off MY House, YOUR House, OUR House, from never mind visiting, but even seeing. Big black ugly fences are growing. Armed soldiers and others patrol the grounds and outside. Trump is not hesitating at all as he puts his statement of being the "law and order candidate" into action - around himself. Never has a president ever sealed himself so off from his citizens, his countrymen, unless he was a fake president from a dictatorial country. Hmmmm. Getting warmer, are we?
“I think the need to fortify your house — and it’s not his house; it’s our house — shows weakness,” she said. “The president of the United States should not feel threatened by his or her own citizens.”
So stated an expert. And so we have a stalemate. Will we continue this ever growing closer regime of dictatorial structure or will we regain our senses, hitch up our pants and vote this guy out of office. Not only him, but also his enablers, his cowards, his cowering masses yearning not to be free, but rather to be stroked or kicked ever so sweetly by their master! Ugly!!
Now here is another Carmen Sandiego question. Where the hell is Pence? Anybody seen him lately? Olly, Olly, Oxen Free! Come out, come out, wherever you are! But wait. This is not a game for children, is it? Rather it is a question of where the hell is our supposed backup to this demented President who should have been removed from office long ago? Where the hell is Pence?
Now it is not that I am missing him, that Devil's Spawn ruled by Mother, but still, where is he? I have not seen a picture with him in it. I have not heard a quote from a statement by him. No comment re the horrific rifts within our country. No statement from him in the Senate as to why it is so difficult - in the year of Our Lord 2020 - to pass a law making lynching a Federal crime? Still? We still have to debate and legislate on this? With people still refusing to vote this into being? What an ugly disgrace for us and for the GOP which seems to also have gone missing in so many ways.
So, the big , fat, ugly wannabe baby dictator of this country is taking his marbles - few as they are - and pouting all the while, and going to play not nice with North Carolina, accepting his nomination - such a shock! - from the Convention being held in Charlotte as he is elsewhere. What an infant. This man just grosses me out all day long and more than that. But again, where the hell is Pence?
Has his overlord placed him in Trump Purgatory? Is he ill, a secret that we should all know? Is he somewhere around the world on a secret mission, like perhaps standing there with someone in Hong Kong as they run down protesters at a memorial for Tiananmen Square? Where the hell is he? Most important, should we really care? What has he done other than stand there with his dead face, staring off into space as his master runs this country down.
The unemployment rate is up to 20%. The market is undergoing weird behavior, many now calling it a bear market rally. People are still dying even as more refuse to follow protocol, putting all at risk. Guess a day at the beach is worth more than the life of Nana or the pain of a child with new syndromes from the virus. How do we value ourselves or anything in this new normal where care seems to have gone missing, where the country has divided politically! on wearing a mask or not!
Where a TV personality can say this: "Well, he's allowed to have his view about what kneeling and the flag means to him. I mean, he's a person," Ingraham said. "He has some worth, I would imagine." about someone she ostensibly supports as he seemingly supported her. How kind she is to acknowledge this man's humanity, something so many, too many have been denying for too long, as they do with any and all opposition to them. Glad she is no friend of mine.
Meanwhile, the best they can do is to strut that man around surrounded by a phalanx of armed bullies, clearing the area around of peaceful protesters by using tear gas and physical force, so he can cross the street and hold an upside down Bible. What the hell!! And meanwhile, where the hell is Pence? If he is capable, why has he not come out against this inhumane policy of Trump's? Why would he think we would not remember this four years from now as he runs for office? Perhaps because the ugly new GOP feels that there will be no more elections after this November for Trump will remain in office by hook or by crook! So why bother?
Murkowski disappoints us again as she works on our sympathy to her stress, she is trying so hard not to vote for Trump. The Party or the People? Should she or should she not? Perhaps she can go hunt down Pence and Carmen Sandiego while she is at it, and get advice from them. How to turn down a man and his regime that violates laws all the day long, who lies all the day long, who sits in his bathrobe tweeting away, a demented picture in one's mind. This is a man who approved an ad supporting his nomination and victory by using a picture of an astronaut's wife and son, as if they agreed that this NASA launch was a victory for him. Really? The man would not know a button on a launch program from a button on a toaster! And without permission of the wife as well. Needless to say, the ad is now withdrawn.
Thinking.....thinking......thinking ahead to a world where there would not be a Trump ruling us. No Pence to stare us down and disappear when the going gets even uglier. Where callousness and cruelty, poisonous hatreds would not waft over the land. Where the waters, the air, and the land, the national monuments, the borders, The 'Americaness' of us all, of our country, would be back in play. Where the Lady of the Harbor will hold up a newly refurbished torch, a welcoming smile on her face as new immigrants, the lifeblood of the country, return and are welcomed.
Where we can be well and stay safe in lower case letters. Where we will have trust in the government to prepare for emergencies, to do right by its citizens, to remove ugly black walls from seized private lands. Where America will be America once more and Americans will all remember what it means to the world to have that America in place once more.
To Dream the Impossible Dream? I hope not. And while we are waiting for the time to come, the time to vote and the time to eject and reject these twisted people, please, Be Well and Stay Safe.
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