Friday, September 01, 2017

September Tombstone Blues

"Well, now it's time to say 'goodbye' to Donald and his kin."
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Mama's in the kitchen, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I am in the basement with the tombstone blues
 
Bob Dylan
 
Darwin was wrong
There is no way this unacceptable situation can possibly continue until New Years Day - let alone January 20, 2021. The damage that this mentally ill knucklehead is doing to this country might be irreparable before we know it. It's almost beyond the point of being unintentionally funny - although it's still a scream. Every morning for the last eight months and twelve days has been like waking up and finding one's self deep within a Paddy Chayefsky satire. However, as amusing as these times are, they're also ominous in a way that's hard to describe. The fact of the matter is that Donald Trump's very presence in the house that was once the home of John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, both Roosevelts and Harry S Truman is a fairly accurate reflection of what America has become. It used to amaze me when people would say that they voted for Trump "because he's one of us". Today I understand it perfectly. He really is one of us - in ways that are too unsettling and weird to articulate. Donald Trump is America. If that very fact doesn't depress the bleeding mortal shit out of you, then you might as well go back to sleep. I'll wake you when it's over.
 
And there are still some true believers out there. Isn't that something? A full third of the inmates of Idiot Nation are so unbelievably civically dense, they are completely in the tank for this walking obscenity who stands today as the Chief-Executive. George W. Bush is starting to look (in in hindsight anyway) as the statesman supreme. Reagan and Nixon are starting to look like they belong enshrined with the Founding Fathers. Up is down. Day is night. I need a drink. On second thought, a good dose of LSD would do the trick right about now. It's been a while.

Every thinking person, I'm sure, lives in a perpetual state of shock and horror knowing that the nuclear codes - which could conceivably end life on this planet -  are in the hands of this sociopath. Myself, I find it all irresistibly funny. One of my favorite films is Dr. Strangelove. If you've never seen it, by all means have a look. It would explain volumes as far as my fatalistic outlook is concerned. Whatever will be will be, as the old Doris Day song told us. And as the classic Monty Python tune advised: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. I'm looking. That one is a tad trickier. Did you ever think that things would get this completely dysfunctional? Is it any wonder that the rest of the planet is looking at the United States aghast? We used to stand for something that was noble and good. What do we stand for now?

Donald Fucking Trump

If this atrocity of an administration is allowed to continue for another year, it's all over. Was this a great country, or what!

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

12 Comments:

At 12:19 PM, Blogger ArchieBunkerNYC said...

Hey Tom,

When do you think the 1% percenters Bernie Sanders, Bonnie and Clyde Clinton will be making a donation to the victims of global warming in Houston?

Will you post this a week later as usual?

 
At 1:22 PM, Blogger mothernatureearthmom said...

The people in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were sane compared to the inmates at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. John McCain is making revolutionary sense!

All our hopes are now on Mueller. Not Congress. Not the White House. Not SCOTUS. But a special prosecutor.

In less than a year.

I agree that this can't go on much longer - we may never recover.

 
At 9:15 AM, Blogger ArchieBunkerNYC said...

Tom,

Still sounds like you are crying in your beer about the Nov 8 election.

If Donald Trump said it was cold outside, you and the Sore Losers would say it was warm.

If Donald Trump said it was warm outside, you and the Sore Losers would say it was cold.

The mainstream media is a joke and full of Sore Losers.

 
At 11:45 AM, Blogger Jefferson's Guardian said...

The Trump family photograph -- such a prototypical gathering of the emblematic purity of the Aryan race. Chancellor Hitler would definitely have approved.

 
At 6:39 PM, Blogger Mozart1220 said...

I like how Trump's original visit to Texas did not include ONE stop to actually see the flooding or talk to victims. It was all about his "Trump 2020" rally and how many came to praise HIM.

THEN, after being lambasted and shamed nationwide, he goes BACK for all the phony photo ops.

America was not fooled, other than a few like Clucky that will deflect and spin no matter what.

 
At 1:33 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

Arch said, "victims of global warming in Houston?"

But, Arch, we thought you believed Trump when he said it's all a Chinese hoax, despite the fact we have had the warmest years on record.

Liberals, moderates and above all scientists disagree with Trump, along with you. Aren't you embarrassed to be apart from Trump's minority fringe?

Welcome to reality.

For the US: Most. Rain. Ever. Period.

 
At 12:25 PM, Blogger Jefferson's Guardian said...

Dave Dubya: "Liberals, moderates and above all scientists disagree with Trump, along with [Chuck "ArchieBunkerNYC" Morre]."

Dave, I believe you're confusing acceptance, by Chuck Morre, with sarcasm. Chuck will always be a denier of global warming -- just as he's a denier of science in general. He only believes in cultism and, from that, what he's told to believe. He'll never let 50 inches of (unprecedented) rain, drown his parade. ;-)

He's a follower and not a thinker. He's the perfect foot-soldier for the alt-right.

 
At 12:30 PM, Blogger Jefferson's Guardian said...

Chuck "ArchieBunkerUSA" Morre: "The mainstream media is a joke...

At last, something we can agree upon for the first time in many years. Although, for many different reasons.

 
At 12:48 AM, Blogger Mozart1220 said...

I love how His Orangeness is so concerned about the BROWN "illegals" but never once mentions the 80,000 IRISH 'illegals" in the USA. He's threatening to break business ties with ANY COUNTRY that supports North Korea, forgetting that our #1 business partner in the WORLD is China. THIS is the "great dealmaker"?

Now Florida HIS HOME is about to be hit by a hurricane. Limbaugh claims it's a "liberal hoax" like he does global warming, even though he, Trump, and other conservatives in the area are trying to get the State of Florida to build up seawalls and surge barriers near THEIR beachfront properties. Go figure huh?

 
At 8:08 AM, Blogger Mozart1220 said...

Tom, when are you going to make Clucky stick to one name?

 
At 5:11 PM, Blogger Mozart1220 said...

I would ask JG and Clucky to define "Mainstream media" but we all know they can't. It's just a conservative catchphrase.

"Fake News" the new conservative catchphrase for "Stuff we don't want reported".

 
At 5:45 PM, Blogger Jefferson's Guardian said...

Mozart1220: "I would ask JG and Clucky to define 'Mainstream media' but we all know they can't. It's just a conservative catchphrase."

Mozart, your landlocked mentality serves your Corp-Democrat identity well. You think "mainstream media" is a conservative catchphrase? That term has been bounced around by true leftists for years -- probably decades.

Here, let me help you with the definition. Please make note of the "Big Six".

 

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