BEWARE THE CARNY BARKER

 

You know the dude. The one who stands behind the counter, calling out in loud stentorian tone the lines to draw in the naive, the boastful, the dreamers.  He exudes a false charm, a sleazy slimy sexuality good for nothing other than to serve as an emetic. He    promises the sky, shows you the biggest teddy bear ever and then after you spend $15 chasing that bear, hands you a teeny tiny little plastic keyring good for nothing except to tear at the lining of your pockets and then break and lose your keys for you.

A man of patently false promises, absent any and all moral underpinnings, he crawled out of the slime of the lowest ranks of humanity. Unfortunately, he also has the cheap charm of such creatures and manages to draw all into his spider web, draining them and then discarding them. Once they are of no further use to him, he trashes them and finds more victims. Always a steady stream of deluded people who know better, but who have apparently selectively engaged the "dumb" cells within their collective brains. Here is what Bret Stephens wrote on this topic.

 “Democracy dies in dumbness. Trump's critics are quick to see the sinister sides of his actions and declarations. An even greater danger may lie in the shambolic nature of his policy making. Democracy may die in darkness. It may die in despotism. Under Trump, it's just as liable to die in dumbness." 

This man has no heart, no soul. No empathy. When questioned about the recession he is pushing us into, upon the very real possibility of it becoming another Great Depression, his response is that it is "all okay and worth it as it is for a 'great thing'."   Apparently, it is a great thing to instigate and bring about the destruction of that democracy known as America, the bastion of freedom and role model for the world.  The end goal of his plans of his conspiracy are simultaneous and synonymous with the last gasps and final breaths of this nation.  

Corruption is now the number one growth industry of this nation. Want to get something approved, the solution is simple. Find a judge of the New Order. Find a legislator, a lobbyist, an influencer and haul out the wallet or the catalog of perks and you are well on your way. Congratulations. Nor should one worry if that approach fails, falls flat. There is always the bully path. Simply emulate the biggest bully of all, Trump, and raise your voice, let the litany of threats flow freely out of your mouth. Then shake hands, sell your soul, sign the contract and be on your way. 

Nothing seems to have any effect on this mammoth rolling stone of disaster. Disaffected anxious investors, large and small, all disillusioned and confused. We nestle with our enemies and ice out our allies. We now condemn defenders of nations and applaud the invader. Threats of war abound, and simply contemplating constitution of opposing sides boggles the mind. Airlines cutting forecasts due to a collapsing economy. Decreased discretionary funds disappear, stores, retail, Etail, large and small, are broken. They close. More people out of work. 

Yet another growth industry will be the rise of private detention concentration camps, into which we will pour workers so desperately needed in    construction, agriculture, hospitality, elder care. medicine. Industries and lines of supplies will wither. It is an awful, horrible game of dominoes. 

The people suffer and that heartless man sits in the White House signing executive orders destroying this nation or stands at the White House doors and shills for Musk. Trump uses his position as a pulpit from which he can enhance his bottom line. Grow his personal enterprises. Illegal and immoral but he could care less as he claims immunity for anything, for everything, and forever.

This demented carney barker sports a constant outflow from his ugly mouth and mind, re his opinion about the hardworking people of this nation. Here are a few.  

" ...many of them don’t work at all. Many of them never showed up to work."

 " ...cut the people that aren't working or ... not doing a good job, "We’re keeping the best people."

 "But our country was run very badly. I mean, whether it was that or contracts that were signed that was so bad, so obviously bad."

  "The president said that billions of dollars of "fat and waste and fraud and abuse is being taken out" of the federal government."

“I really don’t feel sorry for them,” Habba said. “They should get back to work for the American people, like President Trump and this administration.” During those same remarks, Habba said that military veterans affected by the DOGE-led layoffs may not be “fit to have a job at this moment."

Themes of payback, retribution, revenge. Forced resignations of the top and bottom of the federal work forces. Those who make the nation run and keep us safe and those who will carry it on. In return they get contempt from Trump and cohorts. A lack of sane moderate minds able to restrain and control the madman and his posse of madmen. And please note that now the Palestinians appear to be good people. 

What have we done? What have we allowed? In simple words of a laid off worker from the VA:

"I can guarantee you're going to have wrong things and wrong stuff in the wrong places."

Multiply the exponentially and there is our crisis in a few words.

Yesterday is trashed.

Today perhaps even more so.

Not looking so good for 

on the morrows.