Do You Hear What I Hear on our National Day of Gratitude

I thank you Lord, Anima Mundi or Whatever Spirits May Be for the opportunity to have lived here in the United States under the years of Democratic Rule. My people, like others, came from difficult situations and persecution. Thank you for that ... I feel Deep gratitude on this day that celebrates thanks ... Thanks for the goodness ... for the safe harbor ... for protection from tyrannical rule by despots. You have given me a place to live myself and to participate in the raising of my children-3 and grandchildren-6. 

The predictions of autocratic rule are coming to pass, I fear. The Reagent has announced that he will choose the inexperienced to reign over the People. An Old Trick to keep the power close to the throne. He has chosen folk who cannot stand up to his Highness in his Gilded Palace and Robes. People with no experience in foreign affairs will run interference diplomatically with other states ... autocratic and democratic. It is my sense, however distorted, that each person in the parade of clowns who have come to one of the Kng's Summer Residences was escorted in, required to falate the Little Blonde-Haired Boy Who Would Be King, i.e., was humiliated, and then led out "don't call us, we'll call you" style.

Donnie-Boy then announces on a Day Before Thanksgiving that he is above all others ... He can be accused of no conflicts, as he IS the state. When Cromwell accused a King of crimes against the state, he laid a foundation for future democracies, even of England. When Donnie tells that he can use the Crown to increase his own wealth and his House of Lords Parliament stands by him, we are -- there's no other way to say it -- fucked. The God and decent patriots on the Right will, I suspect, be purged. Those who have been promised Pie in the Sky of returning jobs in a World Econmy that has changed and will no longer easily support the Post-WW2 boom that allowed Detroit to provide a wage sufficient for the two cars and the house in the burbs ... those honest and decent people will be humiliated as much as the Mitt Romneys who have come to kiss the King's ring or to suck on his  Sceptre. How sad!

The good religious people who open the doors of the church each day on their Sabbath will feel
shame that they were duped by one of the False Prophets which the Testaments foresaw. The Ohio
Governor who believed in the American Way that he learned from his Postman Dad's decency will be purged. Who knows? Maybe Hard-Heads like Texas Ted will adapt. ... Still ... Muslims who came looking for Democracy will be Registered. Muslims who came to carry out Jihad will be vindicated. Those who fight in the Middle East, Africa and Asia will feel equally comforted that, indeed, the West's promise of Christian Solicitude, Kindness to the Stranger and Orphan and Widow and Disabled, equal protection under the law, .... all the promises of at the very least one of the greatest experiments in egalite et fraternite were bullshit. Our Ethic replaced by Reflections in a Pool.

I received a response to a posting this morning from two people whom I don't know. They said my rant was misplaced ... nonsense ... foolish ... Time will tell.

I responded: I hope you're right, Mr. Callesen and Mr. Bernstein ... I hope you're right ... I may be just an old man Mis-hearing when DJT says that he is above the charge of conflict of interest as President. Maybe you heard his words differently and would offer me the kindness of parsing them (his words about him, as President, being beyond the charge of conflict of interest)  so that I can tell my gathered grandchildren-6 that Next Thanksgiving will be just like this one ... for all Americans ... be they well or sick ... rich or poor ... sprintly or disabled ... or from any of the three great religions that populated cities like Córdoba in peace in the 13th Century.

Let me close by saying that I would be quiet and still if I thought Herr Drumpf but a Bully in a China Shop ... but, justified or not, I experience him more as a Hydrogen Bomb fused and ready-to-go in the presence of people and institutions that I love.

A very brief expression of thanks to my President from a Citizen Therapist ... no Senator ... no Prince ... just a guy who grew up in Bernie's Brooklyn and was graced, in our Country, to make a life for himself, his wife of 51 years, and their curious spawn.

Mr. Obama ... You have brought dignity to the Office of President of the United States and many are those, in my estimation, who respect and admire your decency and your respectful and reflective ways of thinking and being on this National Day of Gratitude. I'm one citizen but wish to say that those who gather around my youngest's, my daughter's Thanksgiving Table, today, will be forever in your debt for the past eight years during which time we have felt you represented us to ourselves and to the World as worthy of seeing each and every one of us as People in Our Own Right ... with our own devotions ... with our own ways of thinking ... and praying ... and loving. And our admiration for you extends to the First Family that you and Michelle have shared with us.

We love you, Man!

(Re)Considering the Second Amendment to the Constitution

What did Alexander Hamilton mean in 1788 when he opined?

[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude[, ] that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.

"To defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens?" What the hell? Under what circumstances would it be fit and proper for Americans not only to bear muskets but to raise more modern weaponry and use such arms against forces in their own government.

Not to take this too lightly, there is that scene in Crocodile Dundee when a thug approaches him and his lady on the streets of (was it) New York with a little switch blade. Dundee reaches behind him, draws out his ten inch blade and says something like:

"You call that a knife; this is a knife."

But back to the Second Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, 

being necessary to the security of a free State, 

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

"The right of the people to keep and bear" (and I can only suspect, when necessary, to use such) "Arms shall not be infringed." If there's no right to use, let me add, what's the purpose of bearing said arms. "Aye! That's the rub." And who was it, anyway, who said that one ought not carry or aim a gun unless one intends to use it when necessary.

So, help me: Under what circumstances is it ... what to say ... Kosher to bear arms against the government and never mind this lame "right to bear arms" ... what about the right to use arms in those situations where the government is infringing on the other Amendments or the 

Laws. Isn't that the spirit of the 2nd Amendment?

For instance, should a President call for and institute a Registry of a Specific Religious Group which seems patently against such requirements for Equal Protection Under the Law of the American Constitution, what options accrue to the Citizen? And what of the situation where the Judiciary refuses to offer an injunction against this practice? 

Now one doesn't have to be a Constitutional Theorist (I haven't asked my son who was a constitutional theorist) to recognize that such a Registry would go flatly against the First Amendment. Still ... when does the Citizen have the Right to use the arms that he rightly bears and go after said President or his or her agents? I don't know but when Trump was hinting at a Second Amendment solution to the election of HRC a couple of months ago, was he alluding to this right ... the canonical and implicit extension of the right to bear arms to a right to use them? I am not imagining that Wilkes-Booth or Sirhan or Oswald or any of the others here in USA or elsewhere should be vindicated for their acts of violence against sovereigns ... and am not in favor of violent revolution .... Still ....

I don't get it and never thought about the Second Amendment much, before. Perhaps, it only applies to members of a minority party? My Sweet Lord ... Is it possible that the NRA's membership -- as all the other swinging pendulums of our Democracy -- will swing to the Left? 

The Courts are Dead, Donnie-Boy ... Good Job

Donnie Boy, we haven't given you nearly enough credit. When you said you could get things done, you were astonishingly correct. When you said that you could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and not lose a single voter (or something like that), you were approximating the Truth, weren't you. Or am I missing something?

Have you demonstrated that you can, at the same time, impose a provision against lobbying for 5 years after joining YOUR government to avoid any conflict of interest ... any pay-for-play and yet.

TELL ME IT's NOT SO

Have You, Your Wife and Daughter advertised  stuff on .gov sites? Tell me it's not so that Milania and Ivanka and You were advertising your packages on an official site? or did you bypass that cleverly. 

Did you really bring someone who owns a lobbying firm that deals with Turkish Interests to Security Briefings knowing that Matters-Turkey would be discussed?

Are you, indeed, trying to bring folk into your Circle of Advisors that would not officially be Cabinet Members just so they wouldn't have to pass muster in Senate Hearings? Your Son-in-Law whose Wife and Brother-in-Laws will be materially guiding your own profit? Gingrich, Bolton, Kushner, Flynn? ..... Tell me it ain't so!

And are you, indeed, free from Judicial Injunction? Is it true that Citizens have NO STANDING in courts to get in your way. I guess that explains a great deal about why you see the Second Amendment as so crucial to our Democracy; without it we can be stuck with a government that plays free and easy with the LAW for the same reason that Dogs lick their ... well, you know ... BECAUSE THEY CAN!

HEY! SOMEBODY PINCH ME AND TELL ME IT JUST AIN'T SO

Who knew that a huckster like you could find the loopholes ... AND WOULD ... to the Constitution that our brilliant Founding Fathers put together. 

We shoulda known!

You told us! 

We're Fucked: "Don't think in your Soul that you can remain silent"

Donnie-Boy ... The Scroll of Esther in the Bible you love has this great subplot. The people are about to get Phukt by Haman the Evil and the Queen fears for her life if she opens her mouth and tells the King of this danger. Her Uncle Mordechai, the Chief of the Protesters, tells her not to be deluded into thinking her silence will protect her because surely others will arise to do her task for her and she and her family will lose out.

America is a Great Experiment in balancing love for oneself (Free Enterprise) with love and responsibility for Others (the Social Contract). You and your Ivan the Terrible Breitbart cronies

are counting on the silence of the American people and their fear of the gun-toting minority. Worry not: They will soon enough realize that your promises are little more than Ecclesiastes' "Emptiness of Emptinesses" ... vain promises of one who hasn't yet learned to love.

Sad, indeed:

Bring US Your Poor

I'm just now beginning to feel sort of alive ... mourning ... sad ... but alive. I guess there are lots of possibilities for how these four years unfold. Presuming what I/We were saying had any merit, National Debt will increase, the World that hates us will burgeon, and the majority of voters who supported him will get fucked. There'll be no obstructionist adversary to blame ... after Chuck Schumer tries to block the first Supreme, the Dynamic Trio of POTUS, SOTUS and HOROUS will together decide to get rid of such niceties ... and what will they say? 

All this does nothing to keep the Seas from Rising and the Ice-Caps from Melting and nothing for the Air-that-Can't-Be-Breathed, Children-Muslims-Women-Hispanics-that-are-Frightened, ... ... We will get down from the ledge, I suppose ... but what a blow!

If you haven't known TRAUMA, before .... 

Faces in a Crowd ... Election Day

I had some time off on Election Eve, Donnie .... I got to watch you on the television talking in North Carolina and Pres. Obama speaking in Durham, NH. You've talked about the enthusiasm factor and there's little doubt that your crowds are energized ... sorry ... shoulda said: your HUGE crowds are energized. They are energized. No doubt about it. Energy. Lots of energy. They're hootin' and hollerin' things like:

Build That Wall

(as in Mexico is gonna pay for the wall)

Lock'er Up 

(as in Sen. Clinton looks better in Orange Jump Suits)

Criminal 

(as in self-evident)

USA ... USA ... Make America Great, Again

(Well, you know about Historical Jingoisms and where they've gone)

Well, you get the picture, Donnie. Lots of energy. It's kinda like an Un-Christian power, though, as Pope Francis said ... there are powerful bridges to love and disruptive walls that run counter to that.

But there is more than the power of anger.

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So, then, I got to listen to the President ... the guy you call the worst President in History, just as you've changed Sec'y Clinton from "one of the best" to "the worst" Secretary of State. I guess Obama does have lots of Power, himself ... I Suppose he could start a war. He does have the Codes and he could spend his nights playing with ... y'know ... his Twitter ... to see if he could still get somethin' outa that Twitter. I guess it wasn't all that kind for him to describe you auto-erotically playing with your Twit-ter ...

But you get it. POTUS is a counterpuncher. 

Anyhow, since I've heard him say most of the things he said, anyway, I instead watched the crowd for the first time. So, here are some of the Faces in the Crowd that I saw. You can check the film ... KellyAnne will show you how to do it. So ... 

I saw a young woman, wearing a brown sweater. Not certain you would've noticed her ... she had a soft face ... beautiful even if not exotically so ... not a scream came out of her mouth ... I didn't, in fact, see her say anything. Just kinda pensively attentive ... rapt in admiration for her and my President. Anyway, she was wearing clothes, not lying on a bear-rug and was wiping tears from her face, as she listened to her President. Tears ... yeah ... Tears. 

I wanna tell you, also about four older women. Two on POTUS' right and two appearing from behind him as he moved about, slightly.  I suppose they were clustered in age about my age. ... 60's and 70's? I guess. Their hands were pretty quietly clapping, signs raising without too much fanfare ... they had graying or white or peppered hair. Good looking? It's hard to be a "10," y'know, when you're between 60 and 80, but I think I'd be pleased to know them and sup with them. Warm ... Kind-looking. Can't say that I'm all that pretty, myself ... maybe if I donned a Golden coif, I'd be a Pretty Little Rich Boy like you ... but not likely.

What bound their faces together for me were the wistful tears. Who knows what they were actually thinking? My suspicion, at the time? I imagined they were playing in their minds with what it meant to see President Barack Hossein Obama ... Afro-European ... standing ... reflecting ... thinking on his feet ... our brilliant President who many of us thought could never be elected ... us? who had grown up hoping for a Country where All Men and Women are Created Equal ... you know the line. Maybe they were, like me, proud of a country that could overcome ancient prejudices and see an African-American President sing the praises of a Woman whom he claimed is far more experienced than he was when he was sworn in. Damn! The Sweet Sadness and the tears that come with the success of our Country. Not from our ability to "Carpet-bomb the Shit out of Them" ... not from our willingness to "Fuck You" all who disagree with us ... not due to the power of our pudgy little fingers on the button ... or even our freedom to deprecate war heroes ... but America the Great that promotes Brotherhood and Sistehood and Love of Children ... kinda like a London  that can appoint a Muslim Mayor or a Knesset that can elect Arab members. ... All this I imagined from the faces of my four Old Sisters sitting and listening with their eyes warming to to vision of Pres. Obama.

Then, there was the young, bearded guy ... short hair ... Orange shirt with an Eagle ... must be some brand. He wasn't moving around very much and it took me awhile to figure out that his stillness was accompanied by a slow reddening of his nose ... and two fingers -- every now and then -- clearing something from his left eye.

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Frankly, Don-Boy, I was a Sen. Sanders' supporter from the start. But, look here ... Sen./Sec'y Clinton has class that glitz and bully-power can never have. Your 200 word vocabulary? really not impressive. Who was it who talked about a Pig in Lipstick? Sen. Clinton has knowledge that a 70'ish man like you or me will never acquire at our age. Y'know ... Old Dogs and New Tricks. She has experience that we can never get and a worldview as a woman that we can only imagine. We men envy women and if we get out of the way, we have much to learn about womanly power. As I said in a previous posting to this Blog ... It's not all male penetrative power. Women have different rhythms but you already know that ... Did I hear you say that you know more about Women that Hugh Hefner? Oh, and Hillary? she's got balls of steel ... yeah ... you'bet. And she's done stuff that heads of state do, you close deals, leave too many folk hanging and Twit-ter-er! Hell ...

The books you write? You didn't write. 

The Bible you cherish? You never read, I think. 

The Foreign Policies? Were written for you. 

Your love of women and Mexicans? Gimme a fuckin' break. 

Your love of the working man? C'mon. You've fucked over investors and contractors, alike.

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But before I say goodbye to you, three things:

(1) I am sorry that I felt the need to say nasty things about you. When a group of folk are standing about a bully pummeling even someone I don't agree with (like Jeb Bush), it's unfortunately no time to say ... "Hey, Bully ... I know your Mother loved you and somewhere your heart is good."

(2) When the guy in the audience last week was getting beaten up for being against you and the Big Guys in Black came to scoot you off stage, you showed some humanity. You were bent over with the fear any of us might feel in such a situation. Hell! I thought you looked like a captured POW ... frightened, small ...

(3) Donnie ... 70 is not too late to get up on an Analyst's Couch .... a place where people do more exploring of themselves than explaining of others ... There's still time to feel loved ... outside the Gates of a Gilded Cage.

Take off the Scary Clown Costumery, Donnie. There's still time!

Guidelines for Erection Election: Strump v. My World

"I'm the Family Values Candidate ...  

I've come to bankrupt your business 

and to grab your whatever."

Add caption

"I'm the Family Values Candidate ...

Fuck You."

"I'm the Family Values Candidate ...

I know just what to do."

"I'm the Family Values Candidate ...

I know how to do this better than Les Generales."

I am America to You!

Go, Sen. Clinton ... Bring This Home
&
Do Your Best to Keep My Grandkids Safe.
We're afraid.

Hey, Donnie: "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind"

Hey, you, Little Rich Kid Who Would be King and who thinks he knows it all because his Daddy had a fat wallet ... y'tell me that if I already voted I can still change my mind and vote for you. Thanks, Donnie ... it's good to know. Made me think on it:

What Would It Take for Me to Change My Mind and vote for you?

After all, John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful in 1965 did talk about the need to choose ... "Did y'evah have to make up yo'mind?" ...  in that case between:

Remember bein' 20, Rich Boy?

One with big blue eyes, cute as a bunny

With hair down to here, and plenty of money

And just when you think she's that one in the world

You heart gets stolen by some mousey little girl ... 

Ah, but you know all about the girls, don'tcha? Wonder if the LDS crowd knows that when you were talkin' out there you were talkin' about Bring'em Young and not his Brother, Brigham!? Y'know Bring'em Young ... He'd write back East from Salt Lake City and say: "Bring'em and Brig'em Young!" ... You know about that gig, DONT'CHA, Don?

So, yeah! What would it take for me to vote for you and retract my vote for Sen. Clinton? and why do all these millions of folk see something in you that I don't? What am I missing? Good question, Buddy.

I don't know about thjose who have been suckered in by your youthful charms ... but as for me? I suppose I could change my vote:

If you weren't critically mean to people whether they've hurt you or not .... like Sen. MacCain ... why, by the way, were you picking on John MacCain? Was it that he served in Viet Nam when you and I didn't? I don't feel any animus towards this man who in good faith went to war to protect my rights as an American? Yeah. You'd have to get down on your knees, do whatever (wink-wink) and beg for his forgiveness.

If you didn't spend years questioning President Obama's right to serve our country as its rightfully elected President or, after having done so, at least if you had had the decency to apologize to the First Family. Your failure to do so ... to man-up to serious offense committed ... does make it hard for me.

If you didn't single out the Mexicans as potential rapists and felons. You could've gone after the Russians or the Serbians for their Mafia ... Why didn't you? I don't get it. The thugly Russian Mafia has caused a lot of damage ... Why not them? No. You'd have to apologize to our neighbors to the South and beg their forgiveness before I could consider casting a vote for you.

If you hadn't singled out Muslims and threatened to lock them out of the American experiment in Democracy to which a sizable number of them have contributed ... I might reconsider. Or, if you apologized ... not just to the Khans. Why don't you go to Muslim funerals and tell them to take their dead back home! No. You'd have to apologize to the Muslim World and the whole American People for defiling the Constitution. You're so focused on the Second Amendment and so willing to supersede the First Amendment. How do you pick and choose between different parts of our Constitution? I suppose you know better than the Founding Fathers ... just like you know better than the Generals! Right, Donnie Boy! No. Like the Pope, you'd have to get down on your knees, do whatever and wash the feet of all Muslims who come to you? Every last one of them. I know as a Little Rich Kid, you have little facility in these matters ... but you could learn. You really could. You went to Wharton and have one of them really big brains, don't you?

If you hadn't humiliated Megyn Kelly, Katy Tur, and the whole Fourth Estate ... accusing them of being the scum of the Earth (what were your exact words) as you jinned-up crowds to potentially attack them or if you apologized to Megyn Kelly and stopped lying about whatever "whatever" meant ... blood coming out of her whatever. If you weren't -- pardon me -- such an insufferable pussy in never being able to man-up to the gratuitous attacks you've made on dozen of individuals and several billions in groups ... I might be able to reconsider. You think you could apologize to Megyn and Katy as a start? Y'think ya could?

Oh! And there's another spiritual blockage I have to recasting my breads upon your waters, Sailor Boy. See, I don't believe, indeed, that you're racist or even a misogynist. I think, frankly, you're much worse than that. I think you attract misguided racists, anti-Muslims, anti-Semites, mysogynists, .... you attract them in what you say and who you are ... and then you use them and their attraction to you. I don't think it troubles you at all, for instance, that Ivanka converted to Judaism, though I suspect that if Ivanka supported Sen. Clinton, she'd be tossed in among the enemy and the stupid and the low-energies and the sicklies and crippled .... No more would she be a "Piece of Ass" but a "Fat Ass" or something. So, for me to vote for you, you would have to overcome your tendency to see the World as "With you" or "Agin You" and you'd have to convincingly tell the KKK and the Posse Cometatus and the Alt-Whites (like your Campaign CEO) that they and their hateful rhetoric are ... what to say? ... UNAMERICAN! Not wink-wink that you don't support them ... but that they are OUT-OF-STEP with the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Can you do that, Don-Boy? Hey, that would be a good start ... and I'd pat you on your no-longer-quite-as-blonde coiffure and say "Good job, Lil Donnie." By the way ... while I have your ear ... why is your hair color changing? It's really a little unheimlich (wierd in Grandpa's German) to see you change, at all. Just sayin'. 

Well ... you get the picture ... y'gets my drift ... y'knows from where I come ... y'got it, right? I wouldn't vote for you if you were runnin' up against Ras-Putin

or if you were in it against Good Ole Ivan the Terrible 

or even if you were pitted agin your Russian Best-Bud-Baby-Sittin' (No-Ras)Putin (aka No-Rasta-Putin) 

                                            

You against Ole Charlie M? Not certain!

My people will get back to yours

on that matter ... Believe me.

You can count on it.

Basket of Deplorables -- possibility of an uncontested election

Is it possible, at this point, to have an uncontested election? I think many of us believe not. I cannot think of an homologous situation that demonstrates so well a hole in what the Founding Fathers put together as a democratically representative republic ... Maybe they recognized the likelihood of blatant lying to a population that was made up -- in part -- of minorities of illiterates and with other minorities of frightened people and others of bigoted people ... Maybe they didn't.  Well, one more frightened person can be added to the ranks, I suppose. At this point, what are the possible outcomes?... ...

I. Trump wins the Presidency, a man who half the country feels is incompetent to the task, rude, talks of himself as and talks as would a serial sexual predator, someone who is on tape saying that he doesn't respect women, has the right to grope them, was born with intellectual gifts like a big vocabulary (though estimates are in the range of a pre-schooler), more or less a eugenicist on tape, and a man who feels he alone has the answers to what ails us. By winning, he maintains the majorities in the House and Senate and appoints 1-3 Supreme Court Justices who half the country fears will embolden Citizens United to the level of an Oligarchy. More than half the country sees the election as having been prompted by the actions of an FBI Director who, at the very least, made serious errors, in defiance of the Head of the DOJ.

II. Sen. Clinton wins the Presidency and brings along a slim majority in the Senate with a slight and insignificant change in the balance of the House. The House continues throughout her Presidency to be the obstructionist voice it has been for six years. 

IIa. The Senate with "the 60 vote rule" continues to block appointments to the Supreme Court.

IIb. Clinton and her allies opt for the Nuclear Option and move appointment "Consents" to the Simple Majority category. Little less than half the country sees the election as having been rigged by the actions of cheating people in the inner cities who, at the very least, stuffed the ballot boxes or misreported results.

III. Sen. Clinton wins the Presidency and the House and the Senate remain with Republican majorities. The House and Senate continue throughout her Presidency to be the obstructionist voice they have  been for six years. The Senate continues to block appointments to the Supreme Court and the Lower Courts and to Departments in charge of executing the People's Will. Little less than half the country sees the election as having been rigged by the actions of cheating black and brown people in the inner cities who, at the very least, stuffed the ballot boxes or misreported results.

OK ... OK ... There must be other possibilities ... but, right now, I can't see the ,,, 

A NEW ERA 

"Uncle Sam wants you." Most of us remember the posters of Uncle Sam Pointing his finger to the youngsters we once were who would go out to war after learning in what was called Basic Training to kill those others who are nothing like the rest of us Red Blooded Americans. Alt-White ...

But for now, I wake each morning troubled by the rage I experience in myself and in the culture, at large, thinking about the hateful rhetoric among the politicians and the electorate that has bathed me and all that I know for 18 months. I -- at the moment -- cannot imagine ever being free of the impact of the venom and vitriol that have come from the mouths of so many, myself included in these blog-postings. I, sometimes, think it like the early 30's in Germany ... sometimes, more like the middle and later years. The air is full of hate. 

This blog that sought to mirror that gratuitous enmity that I felt filling the ether, itself, mocked Trump and his minions ... in their mockery of anyone who would stand in their way. I was and still am willing to "dis" those who live in Trump's worldview. I presented him as a scary, dangerous and narcissistic clown who was more like the Adolph Hitler of those 1930's. Damn. I even tried to write to Ivanka Trump about the difference between Dad's rhetoric and the Jewish path she had chosen to live by.

Seven or so days remain ... and nothing has changed for me and I am, indeed, more frightened than ever. 

I'm listening in the background to a bombastic newscaster (Java Joe) as he interrupts people ... I remember his counterpart (Chris M), last night ... the rudeness. Java Joe may be telling people  that it's just scare tactics by the lunatics on the Left. Java Joe says it's all fear-mongering; nobody's gonna show up with their AR-15's and expanded clips ... open-carrying their Second Amendment Rights. 

Scary ... A Little Rich Kid grows up to believe that everything he says is important ... he convinces 60,000,000 voters that he has all the necessary answers. He convinces 30,000,000 of them that if he isn't appointed emperor, cheating has occurred. 

Talk me down, Someone ... Right now ... Bottom line, Guys ....

I FEAR WE'RE FUCKED