Out in the Open

A crime being committed....

The law couldn't possibly be any clearer: it is forbidden by law to use any government facility for the purpose of staging political events. And yet, there he was in plain sight for all to see. The president of the United States flagrantly violating that law by holding a mass rally, a stage to deliver his acceptance speech to be the nominee of his party for (God forbid) another term for the presidency. As if that wasn't horrible enough, the grounds were filled to the brim with as many as fifteen-hundred people - possibly more - the overwhelming majority of whom were not wearing masks, shouting at the top of their clueless lungs, begging for another outbreak of the virus that has, as of this moment, killed almost 185,000 Americans. It was an extraordinarily mind-numbing thing to witness. The arrogance of our disgusting clown president is truly an amazing thing to behold.      

Trump used the music of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" twice after his acceptance speech - once prerecorded and once live. Also sung was Schubert's "Ave Maria", the most sacred and beautiful  piece of music I know of. It was nauseating. All this was happening as he used the southern portico of the White House as a vulgar political prop. The entire evening was a rolling constitutional crisis wrapped neatly inside of a national obscenity.

As I had the night before last, I slept though the entire comedy and watched it in the wee small hours of this morning on YouTube. What outraged me more than anything was that either Trump or his porn actress wife had all of the rose bushes and crabapple trees removed from the (former) rose garden. As I mentioned yesterday, the trees had been planted by Jackie Kennedy over half a century ago. The late rose bushes went all the way back to the administration of Woodrow Wilson in 1914. These bastards and bitches vandalized a historic site for no other reason than to give Melania better camera angles when she made her grand entrance the night before.

In 1948, Harry Truman was roundly criticized for having a balcony installed above the southern portico during the White House renovation in that period. But at least that balcony has served a positive purpose in the last seventy-two years, and every president since then has appreciated it. Ripping out the historic rose garden served no one's purpose other than Melania Trump's. Fuck her.

The mob of mindless sycophants and buffoons who attended The Donald's love fest last night weren't all residents of D.C. They came from all over the United States (and possibly abroad). We must assume that at least a small number of them were infected with the COVID-19 virus and infected people who were near them. This morning they will cheerfully go their separate ways and bring the virus to their communities around the good old USA. As I've theorized on this site previously, the evil bastard who is now posing as chief-executive wants as many people as possible to be afflicted by this pandemic. He will then use the chaos and death as an excuse to attempt to shut down the election in November. Does that sound paranoid? Don't put it past the old bastard.     

I can't emphasize this enough. folks - and forgive me for sounding like a broken record - but if this demented and corrupt old piece-of-shit is not defeated on November the third, this country is finished. Remember you read it here. Have a lovely day!

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

AFTERTHOUGHT:

I cannot stop gazing at this girl's face. She is literally starting to haunt my dreams. She was executed by the nazis shortly after this photograph was taken in 1943. She was a political prisoner. Her name was Czeslawa Kwoka. She was fourteen. Look closely into those beautiful, tormented eyes and think of the several children who have died in custody at our boarder in the last three years.

 

 

Angel