Actually, there is an addendum missing. These new employees must be amenable to days and nights of employment with nary a break. So states Executive Order #67,234,409. In addition, they must be cleansed, devoid of any remaining taint of morality, of humanity, of decency. The final decision will be based on the answer to a loyalty test. In fact, that is the most important qualifying requirement. Rights have no place within the new crop of those hired. A must, though, is a demonstrated ability to climb and claw one's way to the top without any qualms or compunctions or concerns of any sort re harm to others along the way,
The iconic tale of American dreams and possibilities has now been trashed, declared both antiquated and treasonous. So Executive Order #67,234,410 states. Any person desirous of joining the demented team of Muskrats oh so busily employed in the destruction of America must be able to recite the new version without any hesitation and with full compliance.
Scenario #1: Daughter: Father, I want to be the best I can be. What should I see as a proper ambition?
Father: Daughter, no woman can aspire to any higher or more important goal than to serve the nation, obey all Executive Orders, be subservient to your husband, and be a respectful worshiper of the royal family. Serve your husband, the nation and raise children who will grow up wanting only to serve the Royal Family.
Scenario #2: Father, I wish to be President of AmeriKa. What is the best path forward? Do you have any fatherly advice for me?
Father: Surely. Create a life plan creative and careful in your choice of felonies and misdemeanors, of violations of the law, your contempt for it, and the oh so clever manner by which you escape any and all negative consequences. Do that successfully long enough and you will gather round you an ever-growing crowd of deluded social misfits with nary a whiff of humanity or decency within, who care for naught other than their own ambitions and their need to find a leader. Any qualms are quickly submerged under a flood of excuses and lies and justifications. Your own version of our Sacred Muskrats is a necessity. Go for it; make me proud. Serve well the most Royal Majesty King Donald I. Our founder. The standards are challenging but rewarding. Be the very best Teflon criminal, a la King Donald I and you will go far. Have at it and make me proud.
America gone, shattered, misshapen and false.
Apocryphal? Maybe. Realistic? Growing ever more so as our President of the obscene Executive Orders runs through hundreds of pens daily as he proudly signs those abominations. Perhaps not for as long as he thinks it will be. Opposition is found within the growing voices, raised louder and louder. More and more. Protesting against his tactics, the twisting until unrecognized of the three branches of government we are supposed to have.
His political machinations shred our Constitution. The Executive branch is false to its purpose, overstepping legal boundaries, egregiously so and oppresses the other two branches. The two houses of Congress are now merely. a weeping, sniveling. bunch of quivering. cowards afraid to stand up to a miscreant. A bully. They have ceded their powers to the executive branch. They, for the most part, are needful of a vacation of long duration and replacement in their place of employment. The third branch, the Judiciary, is meant to keep all on the straight and narrow and adhere to the idea that no one is above the law. Well, that is kind of withering on the vine as the most famous convicted felon in our history, our immoral offensive self-declared Ruler in all but formal title, sits in the Oval Office. The number of judges willing and strong enough to combat the perversion of the justice system, of our nation, are few and we must support them as they are facing uphill battles. And yet they more than anything can be the savior of this nation. If, and only if, we insist that the President and all others follow the law, and the decisions of non-co-opted judges will we have a chance to right ourselves once again.
We can be heartened by the growing physical protests. The demands to Dump Trump. It can't come soon enough. The tariffs are already rending economies round the world. Crops remain unpicked, rotting in the fields as pickers and workers are gone. Deported in a frenzy of xenophobia and deflection. No place to send them as tariffs block that opportunity. Money grows ever tighter, and foods are vanishing from the shelves of supermarkets. Costs are growing astronomically. National Parks, especially in the Western states are highly endangered but these rampant mad budget cuts continue to wend their destructive path through the nation's populace. Health care, the safety of the drugs we take, the vaccines we need, the medical care we need - all scrapped. Greatly limited thanks again to you know who. The economy comes to almost a standstill as products cannot be completed for lack of parts. Parts blocked. Punitive crazed system of tariffs instituted by yup, you got it. Representatives, governors, Senators, all well concerned as their states begin to tumble down into a state of economic crisis. You may rest easy as we can assure you that the Muskrats are doing just fine. And thank you for your concern.
Nor are we alone in our misery for all nations around the world are falling down into that same pit in the vicious never ending. cycle. We are losing them politically as well, as we refuse to pay them respect and friendship. Instead, we now tend to hang tight with our traditional enemies. We urge European countries to welcome far right extremists into the national spectrum of acceptable political parties. W threatened NATO and cancel other mutual agreements.
America is now facing a rough present and future with all that has gone awry, accidentally or on purpose. Life for our children, our hope and belief that they would have better lives than we do, gone! Pfft!!! It will be worse. And please, all of us, go look in the mirror and see the cause of it all. We have refused to acknowledge the disaster now upon us. We refuse to acknowledge our democracy is under attack by aim and by apathy. We have allowed hatred to grow, to be used as a political tool. We have misrepresented and misunderstood that to oppose someone is not to hate someone. For example, I and perhaps others like me have been accused of hating Republicans and not hating others deserving of hate. That is both ridiculous and childish. To disagree with someone does not mean to hate them. Yes, there are people in this world, in this nation, that I do detest. I hate Hamas with a deep passion, inhumane and barbaric as they are. But that does not mean that if one I do detest is Republican, that I detest all Republicans. In fact, in my own family, in dearly loved members of my family, I have Republicans (unenlightened of course). On the other hand, I'm not crazy about Democrats. I can't see the world divided by the straight, rigid lines based on nonsense, based on negative aspects, based on destructive thoughts, based on a lack of following the thread all the way through.
We need to shake ourselves and wake ourselves up. We need to understand what is happening. We need to know that we cannot allow the destruction of this nation or the shattering of its democratic roots and structure. What is happening now is definitely not conducive to a good future. Not at all.
Time to move ahead, folks. Time to face the facts and decide on an action. If we act now, if we are strong in our opposition, if we take back the nation, help people understand the danger, the impact of what they voted for, then perhaps, just perhaps, they will understand the situation and know the truth of this: Be careful what you wish/ vote for. You might just get it.
We can do better. We can improve. We must. The alternative is not very appetizing. Censorship of books, of free speech, the acceptance of hate speech, tantrums thrown by adults - not acceptable. Bribery. Nepotism. A return to the spoil system. The disregarding of the merit system. Union rights. Miseducation. State and religion mixing. Address and repair NOW!!
So. What will it be, folks? What will we choose? Will we have the courage and honesty we once had? How shall history analyze and categorize us? How do we answer our children when they ask what we did during the era of destruction. I hope you, we, will have a good answer.
If not today, then perhaps...
On the morrow.
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