The alert has been lifted, and we need not stay close to the secure rooms. Iran has gotten but a tenth of what it deserves and hopefully will come to their senses, do what it must to be in peace and bring an end to their supplying of weapons of murder and slaughter to others. In any case Israel has a way to shoot down drones ,and the mood here is upbeat.
However, questions remain because the current issues within Israel have not been solved. The war with Hamas is ongoing, no end in sight, with the chatufim still held in hell and Netanyahu is undergoing interviews and questioning yet again. He needed a diversion and were the strikes on Iran specifically that or was it a propitious time to carry out those strikes. I don't know that anyone will ever know that. Not even sure Bibi knows.
In the meanwhile, across the ocean, the United States is in the throes of a crisis. Will the population oppose Trumps acts, his plan to make the United States an authoritarian country, rather than a nation of democracy? Will the presence of troops pounding our streets become a sight considered normal? Have we become that dumb, that insensitive, that we could actually have that abomination normalized?
In fact, are we now implicitly and complicitly agreeing with Trump, that federal power overrules, in every aspect of life, the power of the state and the local entities? Have we ever so severely damaged the Constitution, its Amendments, our very history? Sent to the shredder never to be reassembled, to become a relic of the past? Have we so casually sent the Declaration of Independence. to the shredder as well?
The nation is now at a critical point. Either we stand firm against a wannabe dictator who is now in the throes of a fast advancing dementia, insanely focused upon his crazed ambitions or we lose it all. We are now standing at the banks of the Rubicon River, perhaps even wading into it. I sincerely hope we have not crossed it, for then, we would be in a situation of no return, causing a great change in this nation, just as Julius Ceasar did when he crossed the Rubicon.
What is the truth of that parade - the number of troops, the number of tanks and helicopters. I am not the only one who is frightened by it. The social media is afire with it. The news media no less. All are featuring analysts discussing if and when and they are visibly worried, greatly worried. Have guns on American Main Streets become so normalized to our eyes?
Think not that this man, this dangerous baby, the spoiled child in a deranged individual is merely wielding his power and arranging his own birthday present, a $45 million waste of money when so many other areas are going lacking. That would be bad enough but there is a great degree of fear that this man will use those troops declaring national emergency and hence give himself permission to call out the rest of the army and in fact and deed, terminate this nation in its role as a democracy.
Over 5 million people are already planning to have a nationwide protest, a no king, no monarch protest. It is probable that there will be many more and that should include each and every one of us. It is our nation, the nation of our children and their future.
I sincerely hope not the path of Trump.
But this is the same man who pulled January 6th. This is the same man who lies through his teeth and does not understand the meaning of truth. This is the man of no morals. This is the man whose limps through a speech regarding electric cars, mumbling and bumbling and ever so repetitious. This is the man who stumbles and falls upon stairs. This is a man of no grace, neither mentally nor physically, no moral grace as well.
And yes, here I will say it. Damn it . I told you so. Years ago. All the postings. You missed all. Get out there and pray with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul that it literally rain on his parade and he never gets out of the gate. Or within that rather challenged administration there is yet one with enough working gray cells able to head it off at the pass. To convince him not to do as he plans.
All our yesterdays discounted.
All our todays dangerously challenged.
All our tomorrows hidden from us.
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