WHO'D A THUNK?

Who'd a thunk that today, in 2025, after years of growing awareness that there is just something, many somethings wrong, with that guy in the White House, that we can still, so easily, disconnect with reality. That we can still manage to unlink our connection to independent thought and evidence and instead adhere to the idea of controlled and repressed thinking. 

From a democratic nation to one-man authoritarian rule. That we would actually again submit to “rule" of this nation by one who has not been elected, nore was ever in position to be so chosen. It is when the president becomes visibly and/or mentally incapable of leading this nation and those duties and responsibilities are assumed by the partner. In American history it is the female hostess or First Lady of the land, who does this. Woodrow Wilson. Ronald Reagan. Joe Biden? Melania, (not even a citizen by birthright(!) and I believe there were one or two more in the same situation. In some cases, it was a well-known but denied and ignored situation while in others it was accepted as such, particularly in those administrations where the Cabinet members took over the rule and made the decisions. Not a great situation, no matter where one looks. 

We are at present right in the midst of such a problematic administration. While the eyes of the nation have been opening slowly, finally seeing what we, those of us who have seen the truth for ever so long, that we now have as our practically speaking president, a foreign-born woman whose loyalty to this nation is untested. So well indeed have we accepted her that she was emboldened enough to answer her poor befuddled husband's question. "What did she say? Even as she clued him in as to that answer, she cannot do that for what follows, for the inanities, the absurdities, the rambling round the merry go round responses that emit from his beleaguered severely misfunctioning brain. 

His henchman in the cabinet and the leadership of the Republican Party and in the houses of Congress have glommed onto this opportunity. All the while they pass off these extremely dangerous moronic proposals of policy and Constitution challenging Executive Orders, as his. But they do not always cone from his befuddled and overtaxed mind but actually from theirs, and not a great difference between them. In public, they continue their behavior as Craven Toads and take major hits to their dignity but actually they may be the ones controlling of the mighty powers that remain to us. That, my friends, that is an extremely frightening proposition, a scenario of reality which I am too afraid is actually true, and well along its way on this one-way road to Perdition. 

If we do not all wake up and smell the coffee, see the truth, read between the lines, evaluate current reality and understand what is happening and what it portends for the future, well, perhaps we need, all of us, to get on some new Mayflower and find some new land and rebuild from scratch. If you continue to deny the truth, I suggest you do this before you jump ships.  Watch as many of his pathetic conferences or meetings with the dignitaries of other states and nations. 

Clock in on how they behave towards him. Are they spaced out or paying attention? Are their eyes elsewhere other than on his face, in absolute wonderment that this is the man with whom they are negotiating, this remnant of a once upon a time thinking human being. Analyze the faces of his members of the houses of Congress and of his cabinet and other appointees who suck up to him in public, smile and chuckle on command but speak to him in baby's tone and tempo Anyone who has been a parent or a coworker or a subordinate know this is how one talks to a child or to one incapable of understanding words of more than one syllable, or the context and consequences of it.

This is our current situation. It is not the first time that this has occurred and probably will not be the last. However, it is the first time that this nation has been in such as this one. One where all the evil energies converge and create a damaging synergy which we had better shed quickly or forever we will be forced to hold our piece. 

Yes, before you take up finger and type and say I am forgetting his current support of Israel, no, I am not. This is just about his only policy which I am hoping and praying and pleading and doing whatever I can to see that he follows and acts, not just talks.

 However, I am not only a supporter, a citizen, of America or Israel, but I'm also a citizen of the world, and as goes the world, so do we. Somehow, sometime, somewhere, and very soon, we must come to some kind of accommodation and understanding. At present, we are ceding our influence and our waning power to command and possible influence. Our grip on that wheel of the ship of state is becoming less controllable even as the wild shoals and sandbars grow in number and size. We have lost our maps to the safe channels through troublesome waters, and it is proving to be of great difficulty, if not impossible, to resurrect.

Once upon a time all those yesterdays ago, we had respect and dignity. As much as we always criticized our leaders, we always had faith in their loyalty to this nation. We had a trust in this leader that is missing today, glaringly so. Be the failure on purpose or by accident, it matters not.  He needs to be removed from positions where he might cause harm irreparable and then what? No. The answer is not to elect such a person, and if that grievous error is made, then to correct it as soon as possible and rectify any damage caused in the interim.

We have legal means enough to remove this man and any other such man or women who follow in his paths. Disenchant them of any mistaken visions they have of such being the truth. Do what is needed with care and wisdom and with appropriate speed. Any dilly dallying along the way will only lead to more troubles and woes, all become enmeshed together and even Alexander the Great will not be able to slice his sword through that Gordian Knot.    

Prevention is worth an ounce of care. The problem is that we have so many ounces of care weighing upon us that we must deal with consequences before we can even begin to get at those prevention rules. The sooner, the better.

It is a great time to start.

We have lost the time of  yesterday.

We are greatly challenged today.

But the true worry is for the tomorrows to come.