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| In 15th Century Prague they got rid of disagreeable government officials the old fashioned way — they threw them out of windows. These days you'd better vote. |
I know I’m old. I know I’m cranky. I know, I know. But enough is enough already, Donald. Stop it! Just stop it!
I looked at the York Times today and what did I see?
The Auto Rule Rollback That Nobody Wants, Except Trump,” which has to do with Trump's insistence that we emit more CO2 and other nasty stuff from our cars, even though even the car makers don’t want to do this.
Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA After Trump’s Dorian Tweets, Sources Say, which is of course about how no weather forecaster who works for the government is permitted to contradict the nonsense vomiting out of the presidential mouth. If he says the hurricane’s gonna hit Alabama, it’s gonna hit Alabama and don’t you dare say otherwise. If he says it’s snowing in Atlanta in July, be a dutiful little weather forecaster and come out with your snow shovel to shovel the imaginary snow.
Trump Declares Afghan Peace Talk With Taliban ‘Dead.’ This would be about those peace talks that Trump was holding without bothering, until the last minute, to mention them to the President of Afghanistan. Then he called them off after some Taliban thugs did what Taliban thugs always do and killed 12 people, one of whom was American. Trump’s little speech on that matter could be turned into the lyrics for a Broadway musical. Here are his words:
They are dead
They are dead
As far as I’m concerned
They are dead
You can’t do that.
You can’t do that with me.
So they are dead
As far as I’m concerned.
This needs to be set to music. Leonard Bernstein, where are you when we need you?
And meanwhile, in other news…
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“Dozens of Bahamas residents hoping to seek refuge were kicked off a ferry headed for Florida because they had no visas. About which I need say no more concerning Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
How do we get rid of this guy? If the voters can’t vote him out because…Electoral College.
If the Senate won’t convict even if the House impeaches because…Moscow Mitch.
If the U.S. Attorney General won’t enforce Congressional subpoenas because…How do you think he got his job and keeps it?
So we may be stuck with another four years of this guy. But I think you'd better make damn sure that on the morning of election day, everybody gets out and votes.
4 comments:
Exactly! The other concern is if he loses the election will he even vacate peacefully citing a rigged election. He has implied he should be able to serve more than two terms (being the "chosen one."). If not that, then he will plant one of his family in the White House. The House of Romanov in Amerika.
Do you not remember what your therapist suggested for dealing with TDS?
For those puzzled by what Ed means by TDS, I offer the following from the magazine Psychology today:
The name itself explicitly suggests a "syndrome," which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "a characteristic combination of opinions, emotions, or behavior." Several commentators have run with this, putting forth suggestions about opinions, emotions and behaviors characterizing TDS.
Shared amongst these is a notion that the everyday activities of President Trump trigger some people into distorted opinions, extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard Goldberg gives supposed behavioral examples of TDS among Trump’s political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy dogs."
Woof!
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
As I write this, it is September 11, I have Pandora set up to shuffle stations, and I am off of most media today. I did post one of my typically contrarian musings on 9/11, but between the endless and grotesque enjoyment this country seems to get about reliving that day and Dan McCready's more-definitive-than-last-year loss in NC-9 yesterday. I just need a break from it all. So yeah, I get it. There's so much hate and despair one can feel on an ongoing basis that sometimes even daily tai chi practice doesn't help. So the only thing to do is tune out, put on some music, and chill.
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