Make Amurrica great?

Our despotic Orange King is preaching to world leaders at the UN in NYC this week (9/23/2019): forget about globalism and embrace “patriotism” (read “Nationalism”).

Stefan Zweig died in 1942 but this quote about life’s “worst poison” from his memoir, The World of Yesterday is worth repeating:
“I have seen the great mass ideologies grow and spread before my eyes –Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and above all else that arch-plague nationalism which has poisoned the flower of our European culture.’’

Of course the "deplorables" don't like this kind of writing -"hey - we gotta make Amurrica great!!!"


Anyone else frightened these days?   

♪♪♪ "Whistle While You Work" or "Whistle A Happy Tune"? Sorry - no music in the Orange Kingdom!

So there's this whistle blower telling us about dangerous hanky panky going on - coming from the Orange King's White Palace. Something about phone calls to foreign leaders making promises (on his behalf - not his kingdom).
Barr Barr Black sheep's stranglehold on U.S. Justice is working overtime to prevent anyone knowing the facts.
And the Orange King said:

"Virtually anytime I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand that there may be many people listening from various U.S. agencies, not to mention those from the other country itself. No problem!," he tweeted.  

Your  Orange King continued: 

"Knowing all of this, is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially 'heavily populated' call. I would only do what is right anyway, and only do good for the USA!" 

Dumb enough? He passed that test a long time ago.

Only do what is right? Good for the USA?

Oy!!! Let's all fly to Turnberry for a quick round of golf!!
                                                 
                                              

So where's Dorian going next? Just check with the Orange King!

It's been a month since my last "vent" - the political garbage spewed by the Orange King has been so overwhelming I couldn't decide where to scream first. And where does one begin to complain about the King's silent Congressional courtiers  sitting on their hands as this country goes deeper and deeper into the choking swamp fumes?
Alas, the press is doing their share - reporting the King's lies and fairy tales - but  never describing him accurately: a disgusting, inhumane sick liar suffering from a number of mental illnesses.  Whatever happened to the 25th amendment?

To be fair - journalists/reporters are fearful of losing press credentials if they're entirely honest; although they get them back, it's a pain going through the process. The "press conference" is a thing of the past - no way to ask questions with follow-ups - when you're outside with a chopper motor providing background noise. So the King throws out his lies - no questions please - and they're reported without any context.

A few of the recent horrific Stephen Miller Goebbels generated actions are beyond belief: like the kids here for medical treatment - paying their way - serving as research material for US based scientists getting letters telling them get out of here in 30 days - no ifs, buts. etc. Digest that!!
Or how about the recent rule by the Dept of  HHS - "Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care" which in addition to further throttling  abortion providers also states if there's government funding, physicians can't treat ectopic pregnancies, provide cancer care that might result in infertility and more.... In other words, Big Brother Orange Hair is in charge of medical care - not physicians. (He went to Trump University Medical School?).

And the parade of emoluments continues - the recent Irish spectacle of Half Pence staying at the Orange King's hotel for some Dublin meetings - necessitating long motor processions hours away with the lame excuse of visiting his grandmother's family home.....guess who's paying for all this? Most enjoyable: the small town of Doonbeg (where Half Pence supposedly has family) was all ready for him - a few policemen - but no town people showed up! How wonderful!!!

And the Orange King's funniest weirdo trick of the week: changing the course of Hurricane Dorian - sending it to Alabama with a sharpie. Besides being ridiculous -  it's illegal - subject to jail and fines.
Impeach or 25th amendment - either will do - just get rid of him.

Das Trumpf strikes again!

Monday, August 5, 2019

In response to weekend shootings, Donald Trump read to us from his teleprompter today. He gave his  speech writers extra time over the weekend  - so he could finish a few more rounds of golf at his N.J. golf course.

Interesting: No words about guns in his address. (except that established mentally ill persons shouldn’t get guns!)

He said the attacks were “evil” (wow ) and, referring to the shootings in my city, El Paso, the killer from east Texas was a “wicked man”  (wow again ) who killed “precious little children” (didn’t mention they were similar to the ones he puts in cages – Stephen Miller Goebbels missed this one!)

And guess who’s going to fix our terrible mess of mental illness - The Techies, stupid! They caused this starting with the “gruesome video games” of the 1990’s.

He expects techies to "detect mass shooters before they strike."

He called for more monitoring of social media and the internet, (oops, excuse me – what happened to the bill sitting on Moscow Mitch’s desk asking for more tech help in assuring safe elections – with no foreign country meddling?)

He’s looking for  "cultural change" (ho ho ho – does he even know what cultural means?)

He threw in the big words  "bipartisanship," need for  "great legislation.…

 "It is not up to mentally ill monsters, it is up to us." (So he’s not a mentally ill monster? Or is he not part of “us”?)

Wow – what a presidential speech – hats off to Propaganda minister Miller and assorted members of the money collecting Trumpf Unternehmen !!!

I'll have another piece of dark chocolate and a glass of red wine, thank you.

Some medical studies claim that resveratrol - the polyphenol found in red wine and dark chocolate - may help in elevating your mood (or lessen depression?).
Not sure about this data - but with what's going on in D.C. - it certainly can't hurt for me to indulge......

The Orange King continues to rant....On Sunday, July 28, 2019, the Baltimore Sun newspaper editorial staff had a few things to write about after the Orange King's comments on Cummings and his "rat infested Baltimore district".....:

"Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one."

Thank goodness for print media - wherever it's still alive!!

Interesting coincidence: guess who was cited as a Baltimore slumlord a few years ago. None other than Saudi lover Jared Kushner! His father in law was cited for racism in renting only to white tenants in his Queens NY apartments but Prince Jared has his own style - he just collects money for rotten housing...

why voting for Democratic Senators more important than ever!!!!!

Eugene Robinson, a columnist for the Washington Post had an interesting column  in mid-June after the first Democratic debates and it's worth repeating:
" Dear Democratic presidential candidates: I know all 23 of you want to run against President Trump, but only one will get that opportunity. If you truly believe your own righteous rhetoric, some of you ought to be spending your time and energy in another vital pursuit — winning control of the Senate." .....He continued with a few specific suggestions like: "I’m talking to you, John Hickenlooper of Colorado, who would have a good chance of beating incumbent Republican Sen. Cory Gardner. I’m talking to you, Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana, who could knock off GOP incumbent Sen. Steve Daines."
And I would add that Klobuchar and Bennett are important Democratic senators who would be sorely missed if they left the Senate.

"The only way to stop Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (from Kentucky) is to take his power away, and the only way to do that is for Democrats to win the Senate."

(And the despot Senate leader from Kentucky must leave together with his wife, the crooked wealthy Transportation secretary.)

Robinson concluded: ......"We don’t need 23 presidential candidates. Some of you, please, fight for the Senate."

On to other disgusting frightening matters: Das Trumpfer, otherwise known as the Orange King had an extra dose of lying tweeting and rallying this past week.
One would've thought that his racist comments and requests that people he's afraid of  should go back where they came from might get a rise out of his "Republican" courtiers - but the Orange Kingdom has squeezed too much juice on them and they remain helpless - except for a very few whose brains haven't turned to mush.
"And the Orange King is not racist?" When he and his father wouldn't rent to black tenants looking for rentals in his Queens, NY apartment houses? When the N.J. Casinos he managed to bankrupt were told that when he and daughter arrived all black employees were to leave the floor and not be seen? When he said Jews were only good for cooking - oops excuse me  - doing his accounts and books? Or should we give him an excuse and say he learned from his father who, as a member of the Klu Klux Klan in NYC was arrested after an altercation in the streets - against NYC Police because they were predominantly Catholic?

On the one hand - it's nice to be 90 with your faculties intact - on the other hand you can remember the 1930's and the acquiescence of the crowds as they chanted with their Austrian and Italian dictators to "purify" their populations.....
Never again? Not with Stephen Miller Goebbels and the Foxy network guiding the Orange King and his frightened courtiers.

Just when you think the Orange King has reached the limits of SHAME ...

The Orange King delayed the beginning of ceremonies commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at the WWII cemetery near the Normandy beaches so he could be interviewed by his Foxy friend.

The Orange King used this solemn site (close to 10,000 Americans are buried here) to call war hero and former special counsel Robert Mueller a “fool”, Senate Minority leader Schumer a “jerk” and Nancy Pelosi a “disaster” .

In 2013, my husband and I and our daughter Joan and granddaughter Miriam had the privilege and honor of visiting the Normandy beaches (courtesy of a Uniworld cruise in France). History became alive as we walked on some of the five beaches, looked at the cliffs behind us with bomb craters and remains of German bunkers. Later we visited the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, on a bluff above Omaha Beach. Uniworld offered cruise guests fresh flowers to place on graves – to honor and thank those who died. It was one of the most moving, somber days in my life.

Here are some photos I took of our visit: Two views of  the American Cemetery; views of "Les Braves", large steel sculpture on Omaha Beach, created by  French artist Anilore Banon, commissioned by the French government, to commemorate the Normandy D-Day landings.
The stone sculpture states: THE ALLIES FORCES LANDING ON THIS SHORE WHICH THEY CALL OMAHA BEACH LIBERATE EUROPE JUNE 6th 1994.