Well Said

The picture on the cover of Time Magazine's June issue showing Donald Trump and a crying child was photo shopped to contain images from two unrelated pictures, but, like great art, it reveals a larger truth!

The sights and sounds of frightened children being separated from their parents and the anguished pleas of those parents reflect the cruel reality of Trump's fascist tedancies.  Trump's decision to separate children from their parents was a deliberate act. It was not and is not a matter of law. The laws that are relevant to this situation are the same laws that were in effect during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, neither of which had such an unrealistic zero tolerance policy that it required this obscene separation of families. Make no mistake about it, this mass separation of parents and children is unique to the Trump administration.

Anyone who seriously doubts the danger Trump poses to this nation, its political traditions, its values, and its democracy is either not paying any attention to what Trump is doing or is totally delusional.

Lets put this cruel separation policy into context. Time and time again Trump has pandered to the Xenophobes and Neo-Nazis. His tweets are full of racist comments and nativist nonsense.  Do you remember his comments about the Neo-Nazis at Charlottesville, when he said both sides were responsible for the violence that took the life of a young lady who was peacefully demonstrating against the Nazis?

Why does Trump lie about undocumented immigrants committing such a high percentage of the crimes being committed in this country?  Why does he try to dehumanize undocumented immigrants by saying they are infesting our country?  Why does Trump conflate illegal immigration with people who are seeking asylum when he knows or should know that by doing so he is in violation of international law? Could it be because the asylum seekers have darker skin than Trump likes or that they speak Spanish?

Why is Trump pulling the United States out of the United Nations Human Rights Counsel? Does he not know that Eleanore Roosevelt wrote the United Nations Universal Declaration Of Human Rights? Does he not know the feelings of guilt this nation felt for the anti semitism that caused us to turn away thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany? Has Donald Trump learned nothing from our past?   Does he take no pride in the fact that this the most powerful nation on earth also became the greatest moral force on earth?

Under Trump we have lost that morality and the moral force resulting therefrom! He is making people of good conscience ashamed of what this country is becomming. We must heed the lessons of the Nuremberg trials. This is no tume to sit on the sidelines pretending you don't know.  Wake up America!  Oppose Trump, his cruelty, and his enablers before it is too late!

Fear And Loathing Here!

Fear and loathing! Get your red hot fear and loathing here! No need to trouble your weary mind with any intellectual examination of evidence or vexing questions about what crimes Trump, his campaign staff, or members of his administration may have committed. Leave those questions to the egg heads. You don't need any facts or logic either. The Republicans have alternative facts for you, and every thought or argument you will ever need is already pre-dissembled and wrapped up in attractive conspiracy theories guarantied to fit people of both genders, all sizes, and all shades of white; all courtesy of Donald J. Trump!

Don't bother thinking about the five people who have pled guilty to crimes because of evidence dug up by Mueller's investigation or of the many indictments resulting from the investigation thus far. None of that matters. This whole fake Russia-r thing is a witch hunt. "NO COLUSION!"  So sayeth the Donald. And no, the fact that the Donald seems to fear witch hunts more than he fears warlock hunts does not mean that he suffers a gender issue. It just means he suffers a language issue.

It's phony, Trump tells us. This whole Russia investigation is phony. Did you know that out of the thousands of people working for the FBI and the hundreds of people directly or indirectly working for Mueller there are thirteen Democrats Trump knows of who are investigating him? How can you doubt that there are a lot more he doesn't know about or hasn't counted. And those Democrats, those evil Democrats actually planted a spy in Mr. Trump's campaign. A SPY? Can you believe that? It's horrible! It's even worse than Watergate! Ah, but fear not. Donald Trump will fix it. If you re-elect the Republican diapers covering his butt he will turn the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the Peephole's Bureau of Investigation, and it will spy only on Democrats, and beauty pageant contestants, as well as adult and not so adult screen actresses. And don't say that is a war on women. Donald loves the women. He can't keep his hands off of them, but that is another subject.

To all of you who are buying the fear mongering and loathing being sold by Trump and his fellow demagogues let me just say: “if the world seems like a dark and smelly place to you perhaps it is because of where you have your head.”