ELEPHANTS AND SUCH

  At times when one group or another gets together, there is an awkward topic around which everybody plays blind and ignorant as to its existence. Eventually, whatever is being discussed will come to a halt, for there can be no forward movement unless that sensitive topic known as the elephant in the room is properly addressed. There simply is no way around it; postponing it or putting it off to complete at another rather nebulous time is useless. In fact, not only is it useless, but it is also harmful to the process of a smooth and productive planning situation. In other words, there are times of "put up or shut up", and the demand must be answered.

At present, there are so many awkward topics around which we all tiptoe, claiming it is for another time, or, oh, I thought that's been solved already. Or, that's not so important anymore; let's move on. But we are lying to ourselves, for even as we claim we are moving on, we are really stuck in the middle of a highway where there is no room to go forward, backwards or side to side. The only way is to take that key, spray on some WD40, find the treacherous lock in that steel door, stick it in the lock and open the door to sensible, desperately needed discourse. Which we inevitably refuse to do, much to our detriment.

There is much justification for confusion as to which of the many elephants we must address first and foremost. This group favors that elephant, another group favors the second elephant, and a third group brings in hippos and rhinos with their own competing matters at hand, and it is total pandemonium and useless blathering. That being said, however, I feel the most prominent elephant in the room, quickly growing, ever bigger, ever puffier, ever more blatant, ever more orange, unless he left his cosmetician back home and his aging and decrepitude are even more blatant than ever, is that elephant known as Donald J. Trump. He, of the fiercely denied Home Depot cheap looking gilt wall decor which he has sprinkled so garishly around the entire White House. In fact, the only thing not tainted by this lowlife redecorating  "tip” is the picture of Joe Biden  along the rather pompous President's Walk, one of the ever-growing list of destructive and tasteless moves he has made to and in and of the White House, the House of the People, now being squatted in by this balloon cartoon character. If Alfred E. Neuman were to answer his rhetorical famous question - "What me worry?" the answer would be a most emphatic, even desperate yes, please worry! Do worry, for the situation is simply intolerable and in fact, dangerous to the extreme. 

What is going on? This infant child in an overgrown, bloated, decrepit, aged, human body refuses to acknowledge the former president of the United States, denies him his share of the tasteless decor. Why? Because he doesn't like him. Why? Because he beat him at an election. Because this man doesn't like anything that doesn't answer his question with a very limited response. When he looks into the mirror and asks who is the greatest of them all; who is to be the first King of America, the answer had better be Trump or else that champion tantrum thrower will go into action yet again. Bombs away! Indiscriminately.

One apt description among many for our nasty elephant, calls him an immature thirteen-year-old in a grossly mismatched mistaken role as President of these here United States of America. G-d help us! The root and explanation for all the credulous moves he makes. His penchant for exaggeration. The constant capitalizations. The use and reuse of outdated, hurtful memes and tropes of hate and nonsense meant to rile up the greater part of his unholy, unwashed masses reveling in the freedom granted them to spew seeds of JewHatred round the nation. The constant bloopers emanating from his prissy always downturned mouth unless occupied by one of his nasty smirks. Overgrown. Insolent. Ignorant boor. And I believe when he is called a 13-year-old, we are insulting that same class of children.

I can hear the voices now. The indignant words of those claiming we must excuse him for all, for he stood by Israel. He has freed the hostages. He has done more for Israel than any other president than any other (I guess we should discount Truman who immediately ratified Israel's statehood and JFK, who with his brother, RFK, were extremely pro Isreal,) but then again what's a fact or two among friends), and on and on and on we go. 

He has also increased the level of hatred, of Anti Semitism, of Anti-Israel behavior in the nation and the world. He is more and more treating Israel as a client state and one going rapidly into unfavored status. There are now constant pushes for Israel, for Netanyahu, to obey his master when he calls for something that is inimical to the well-being of the state of Israel. Take the ceasefire. Never mind their violations. You keep still. Let those Hamas beasts free, out of the tunnels in which they cower, and of course their weapons go with them. But of course!   Why not accept the 20,000 volunteers from Turkey? And then of course, station them in Israel, for there is nothing like a ready knife at one's back, all the better to finish the job, do the world a favor without a great fuss.

Yes, I do not deny that he has done some important good, though not so much empowered Israel as enhanced his own reputation. War hostages freed under some of his demands, yes, but some are also freed without his demands, even as his threats of all hell breaking loose fail in the follow-through. They were not. Hence, the slow delivery, the cruel game being played, the remains of the kidnapped still there, four bodies denied proper burial, denied a return to their grieving families.

 Yes, at times one must take the good with the bad or the bad with the good. Whichever dominates. But this man is uneven, mercurial in insane switches of direction and verbiage. One never knows what he will do. What statement he will make which will finally light the match that sets this world afire. 

This will be the result.

The equivalent of what we see on TV. The surgery was a success, but the patient died. Or you will be cured of (insert name of disease), but you will also feel suicidal, ache in every bone in your body, become mad as a hatter, but all is good, for your original disease - gone, Comfort in your grave.

We are simply not making sense these days. Why do we have a man at the head of this country about whom more and more people are more and more certain that his rather resounding defeat at the polls in 2025 will give him more impetus to continue his resurrection of the failed coup of Jan6, as he frees those imprisoned, brings them on board as his advisers and appointees - and for what? The purpose is clear, and he has made reference to this enough times to raise concern. Insane? Yes, but look around and see other acts of insanity of his with no sign of stopping any time soon. Closer and closer he gathers his extremists, even as he sits there half-asleep in the Oval Office hour after hour after hour signing papers without recalling the bills they are. That is about all his battered and bruised deteriorating brain can do

He and his enablers believe they are pulling the wool over the eyes and the brains of the American people. But one has to be deaf, dumb, blind and rather intensely stupid to not be aware of the obvious signs of physical and mental deterioration taking place within and without this abused 79-year-old body. He cannot remember names. He cannot fully understand where he is and hence, he   calls out for people who are simply not there. He praises evil people. He excuses domestic violence for it is simply a case of a husband and a wife disagreeing, having a little spat. So he says.

I dare anybody mention to him the new red-green axis, the red of the left, of communism and socialism, boldly, dangerously, now walking hand in hand, fingers intertwined with the green of Islamism. This is what he has allowed to flourish. This is what we are now facing. 

Whether one is of Jewish origin or not, the siren should be going off, loud, blaring, continuous for this man in his stupidity, in his ignorance, in his rising tide of dementia and deterioration has exposed the world to these toxins to a far greater degree and faster than has been the case in decades.  This man is dangerous to the well-being of this planet.  

The elephant has gone berserk and influences and caused and enabled great big rents in sane societies. The right and the left joining together in an unholy alliance. The prestige, honor and high regard and confidence that the world once held for the United States of America gone missing. He shouts he has done it all, deserves numerous Nobel Prizes, and here we are midterm with a long two years left to go before we replace him. Even if the 25th Amendment was invoked who will replace him? Vance, who was even more immersed in right-wing extremism? 

We are indeed in a bad place with a herd of nervous, pacing elephants, frustrated, at the point of turning 'berserker'.  Then it is over, for they have broken out. The walls broke under their pressure and the herd of dangerous enraged ill elephants run rampant through the nation, through the world. 

People, we are in a bad way. The statements made by him, about him, the concerns re his future behavior. Read of the ever-quickening pace of his dementia and deterioration. 

Time is against us.

Yesterdays from which we learned nothing of any value 

We continue to pummel at the possibilities of our todays, using the hammer and nails from yesterday.

  As for the future, our tomorrows - well, it ain't looking so good, is it?

Certainly, someone out there has the right combination of brains, pay grade, boldness, out of the box thinking, determination, wisdom to set things right and return this hapless nation, this floundering world to positions of steadiness and forward true progressive movement. 

tick-tock.  tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, 

The end.