OK, some good stuff happened on Tuesday. Perhaps we can get back to giving a shit about doing what’s right rather than what’s politically achievable. I’m not very hopeful, but we’ll see. However…watching the fractious state of our union play out at the polls was not soothing or satisfying or whatever winning is supposed to feel like. If I’m truthful, the emotions I felt strongest while obsessing over the returns were gleefully imagining Florida glubbing beneath the rising sea, (sooner, would be my vote), and Ted Cruz being stoned by the same majority that just reelected him. How did Florida become the poster state for always getting it wrong? And how does a whiny asshole, hated by everybody, get any votes, no less enough to be a US Senator?
So, what’s next? Well, if you thought the last two years were a prolonged, very mean-spirited Monty Python sketch gone bad…stay tuned. To date, the tear-it-all-down Trumpians only legislative accomplishments have been a massive tax break for the wealthiest of the wealthy and…hmmm, I guess that’s it. Everything else on their agenda relates to demonizing immigrants, denying global interdependence in trade, environmental protection and peaceful coexistence while pledging allegiance to a bumbling buffoon who gained their devoted obeisance as the charismatic, asshole host of a ridiculous reality show that could only be appreciated after several end-of-day brewskies. (Sometimes these images just pop into my head and I have to let them ooze their way out). The Reds have little to offer that resembles America, equality, hope, peace or leadership as the shining example of freedom. Oh…and enough with the positive spin on the booming economy! It’s not good. The banks that greedily almost ended it all by running amuck eight years ago, are now running amucker. The touted record low unemployment reporting does not indicate that most of that low-wage hiring is just poverty…with fries. The Crypts, (see where I went there?), on the other hand, are savoring their newly elected House majority, with subpoena power, to become, hopefully, the regime-ending thorn in Fat Donnie’s paw. Of course, they will be in a frenzy over the next two years to find a charismatic, (aka white, male, Christian…), electable replacement or else, even if criminally and/or collusively indicted, His Lowness could, (my brain is on fire!), be re-elected. Der Donald hit the ground running on Wednesday by doubling down on attacking the press, (thankfully keeping Jim Acosta from beating up any more White House interns), firing Jeff Sessions in preparation for shutting down the Mueller investigation, unconstitutionally decreeing an end to asylum and declaring open war against anyone who disagrees with the comic book visions in his head.
We are in this up to our existential eyeballs. Trump isour Hitler. There’s nothing to be gained and everything to lose by tiptoeing around that FACT. As those brilliant 20thCentury philosophers, Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts, so eloquently put it…Enough is enough is enough!
Note to shooters: New procedural protocol – contrary to previous instructions, when committing mass murder, start with yourself