Thoughts for November
April 12 of next year we will (or at least I will) be observing the seventy-fifth anniversary of the unexpected passing of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945. I'd like to believe that the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania will have been sent a'packing by that time, but that's probably wishful thinking on my part. For those of us who are somewhat steeped in the history of America, April 12, 2020 will be a day of serious reflection. Although three-quarters-of-a-century may seem like a very long time to we mortals, in terms of the long arch of time it's a comparative flash of an instant. I can only imagine that, on that day, my mind will be pouring over the jagged irony that, in a historical instant, we've gone from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Donald Fucking Trump. How does something that horrible even happen? Mercy!
We really need to come to grips with the unsettling fact that the damage that is now being done to America will be felt for generations. The fact is, for those of us of a certain age, we'll be living with the reverberations of the Trump Age for the rest of our lives. I believe that fifty years from now, the president of the United States (who has probably not even been born yet) will still be dealing - on a daily basis - with the damage that this imbecile did to his country so many decades before. When one experiences a really bad dream, our subconscious knows that it is, in fact, only a dream - and that we will wake up from it in short order. We're not going to wake up tomorrow morning only to discover that the disgusting presidency of Donald Trump was just a harmless nightmare. This ain't no dream, kiddies. This is the real thing. Are you amused yet?
PREDICTION: Donald Trump will be remembered as the first chief-executive of the United States of America to die in federal custody. Does that sound like preposterous prophecy on my part? We'll see.
In this morning's New York Daily News, former-Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman wrote that, at the very least, the administration of Donald Trump is as bad as Dick Nixon's. She's a great public servant and a gracious woman (I had the honor of meeting her once), but she was as wrong on that score as she's ever been in her life. The fact of the matter is the scandals of The Donald pale in comparison to those of The Trickster. As I've said on this site too many times to count, Watergate was a paper-cut. This is a goddamned bloodbath. I imagine that Nixon's heirs have been breathing a profound sigh of relief these days. His reign as the most improbably corrupt president in the history of this doomed republic has come to a swift and merciful end. In fact (and I cannot believe I'm writing this) the hideous old bastard is starting to look pretty good. There are profoundly weird times.
In the meantime, the next few weeks promises to be as vile as any period we've witnessed in a long time. The justice department of Bill Barr is hell-bent on acting as Trump's private law firm. We really are living in heart-wrenchingly weird and interesting times. Dick Nixon resigned in complete and utter disgrace exactly one week before my sixteenth birthday, so I'm old enough to remember the entire period as clear as yesterday. I remember remarking to a friend at the time that the Watergate affair was the Grand Prix of political scandals, and that American politics would never again get that unhinged. I was wrong. Be sure to pay attention to everything that happens in the coming weeks and months. We are living through an extraordinary period in American history.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
We really need to come to grips with the unsettling fact that the damage that is now being done to America will be felt for generations. The fact is, for those of us of a certain age, we'll be living with the reverberations of the Trump Age for the rest of our lives. I believe that fifty years from now, the president of the United States (who has probably not even been born yet) will still be dealing - on a daily basis - with the damage that this imbecile did to his country so many decades before. When one experiences a really bad dream, our subconscious knows that it is, in fact, only a dream - and that we will wake up from it in short order. We're not going to wake up tomorrow morning only to discover that the disgusting presidency of Donald Trump was just a harmless nightmare. This ain't no dream, kiddies. This is the real thing. Are you amused yet?
PREDICTION: Donald Trump will be remembered as the first chief-executive of the United States of America to die in federal custody. Does that sound like preposterous prophecy on my part? We'll see.
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In the meantime, the next few weeks promises to be as vile as any period we've witnessed in a long time. The justice department of Bill Barr is hell-bent on acting as Trump's private law firm. We really are living in heart-wrenchingly weird and interesting times. Dick Nixon resigned in complete and utter disgrace exactly one week before my sixteenth birthday, so I'm old enough to remember the entire period as clear as yesterday. I remember remarking to a friend at the time that the Watergate affair was the Grand Prix of political scandals, and that American politics would never again get that unhinged. I was wrong. Be sure to pay attention to everything that happens in the coming weeks and months. We are living through an extraordinary period in American history.
Cha! Cha! Cha!
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
posted by Tom Degan @ 10:41 AM
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Remember when we a great nation and not in ruins?
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Perfection. History will not reflect well on us, the people who sat back and watched this happen. All I can think is this must be what Berlin felt like in years leading up to WWII.
Ruin, sure, with record low unemployment for blacks, Hispanics, and women, record highs on Wall Street and the 401K's they fund, ending the endless wars the Obama left us (Joe Biden Admits That It Was A ‘Catastrophic Mistake’ To Pull Troops Out Of Iraq In 2011…)record high per hour wages for the working man, this country is heading for ruin under Trump. Because per tb3, he doesn't talk nice about our enemys who have sworn to kill each of us. And Tom, what actions by Trump have made your life worse than they were under Obama? Can you list them?
America was only great when FDR was President because we had record high unemployment, but our President talked nice. LOL.
Cory Booker Admits That Democrats Policies Have Betrayed The Base Of Their Party. The middle class. The working family's.
Top House Dem Steny Hoyer: ‘Truth And Facts Are Constraining Us’ On Moving Forward With Impeachment. They have nothing, again. Kinda admitting they have no case.
Ruin, like the lie that Russian won the 2016 election for Trump, oops, that's not so, and the 3 years ruined by congress to find there was nothing. Then it was obstruction of justice by Trump, fake again, so much so the Democrats aren't even using either lie for grounds to impeach Trump. Do you realize that? If he was so wrapped up with the Russians and if he obstructed the investigation into that, why isn't that their reason for impeachment? Instead it's another fraud that the Dems. are running with.
The left wants to undo all of Trumps accomplishments because with out a large number of Americans in poverty, they can not win elections. They need a permanent under class to vote for them. That's what really has their panties in a knot. Good news for America is bad news for the left. If that were not so, why aren't they talking about all the good economic news? Instead we have Warren promising medicare for all a a cost of how many jobs and how much money?
What a crock of sh!t the left is trying to force down the throats of Americans. Hurry up November 2020.
JTF is off the rails again: "Joe Biden Admits That It Was A ‘Catastrophic Mistake’ To Pull Troops Out Of Iraq". Fake news! Lie! No he didn't.
It was BUSH that signed an agreement for troop withdrawal. BUSH. You know, the guy that invaded the country and started a war based on LIES.
The endless wars were started by BUSH. JTF avidly supported the lies and the invasion of Iraq. It's all his fault, you know. His and his fellow koolade drinking Bush loving dupes.
Tom Degan is an idiot!
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