"NO NEW WARS"

      And so it begins - or ends - or picks up in the middle - or from wherever, so confused are we as to exactly where the hell we are. What we do know is where we want to go, or better, where we need to go. No choice about that. No confusion about that, at least in the minds of sane people.

Our new President, Joe Biden - and doesn't that feel good to type and say! Our new guy in the WH has a tough job, complicated by the mess, the purposeful mess, left behind by the outgoing - thank the Lord Above! - administration, as they refused to transfer power properly. They hid critical information, appointed new people right at the finish line, and enacted new rules and actions totally polar opposites of the Biden aims and goals.

Trump, in  a typically cowardly manner, released a taped farewell address - and good riddance! Totally scripted for him, he did not go off script, but there are certain phrases that just, to use an old expression, blow my mind! Here is a great one, the inspiration for the title. "I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars,"

Really? Truly? He stands there and spouts off this crap as a parting gift to the American people? No new wars?! He has started the biggest one yet, the war of the Americans, Civil War Part II and this is neither a tv series nor a streamed program. He came to office and drove shims and expanders into every crack in the firmament of America. He drove them deep and expansive, all the time.

 He created his "movement', that cursed group of like minded people who saw persecution and conspiracy in every little thing they did not like. They saw Satanists and pedophiles, conspirators, in every shadow and mote of whirling dust. They were and are and will remain paranoid to committable degree, and will remain so until somehow, someway, sanity returns and prevails. When? Not any time soon, unfortunately, for so deep are they into this morass of their own creation and thinking. They think something is, when it really is not.

What do we do until this mess of Trump and his enablers of the GOP is cleaned up? I really do not know. Way above my pay grade. Way, way above. I guess we just carry on. We support the new guy in town who has begun in a good  manner. He is calling upon his experience and his own sanity. He is working with his VP, Kamala Harris. He has new personnel in mind, stalled in their confirmation by a still damaging and hypocritical McConnell. He knows that the pandemic, the economy, the mood of the nation, are tied together. He knows that employment and prosperity will return when, and only when, there is a comprehensive program to beat the virus and allow confidence to return to the people. They will feel safe walking into stores. They will feel safe to provide the so necessary foot traffic for small businesses. They will gain new employment as it goes on, introducing more money into the economy and there will be hope.

But all this hope for the future, all the plans, all the ideas, all will be for naught if we do not corral these conspirators, these traitors, the instigators of this new war that Trump has wrought. Hell, throw them in prison and throw away the keys. Once a traitor, always a traitor. Some things can never be changed. Our only path is to stop them in their path - permanently. No more of this: “It begins for real Jan 5 and 6 on Washington D.C. when we mobilize in the streets. Let them try to certify some crud on capitol hill with a million or more patriots in the streets.”

No new war? He started the most problematic one ever, one that can literally blow this world apart. We need to shed ourselves of this man, his adherents, and his twisted and harmful and dangerous philosophy, his "movement". No more. No more ever again. Time for all Americans to wake up and realize that we are all in the same leaky lifeboat now and if we do not work together, if we do not restore sanity to all our citizens, then we will all drown together. That is it.

Let us begin a new era, one of healing and building back unity. Let us have done with the inciteful rhetoric of Trump, a most damaged man. Let us push out all the hypocrites of politics who put themselves above the needs of the nation. Let us have done with the reeking odors of corruption and incompetency of the Trump administration. Let us return to the time when we would hear all out, disagree in a normal manner, not go ballistic and conspiracy hunting, and let us have America back again. 

Congratulations to the incoming Biden administration. Congratulations to the people of America as we return to sanity, cleanse our house, and go forward again, a beacon of light and hope to the world, a leader once again.