"I deeply want to believe that all human beings are a
blend of their best and their worst... I can't find any best in Trump. He is
simply evil - a dark, deluded, raging product of a childhood from which he
cannot recover nor be redeemed." - Tony Schwartz (Ghost Writer, “Trump: The
Art of the Deal”)
"You know, it really doesn`t matter what [the media]
write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass." – Donald
Trump
I've been afloat and I've been aloft for nearly a fortnight,
commencing with a flight to Barcelona (pronounce it "Barthelona"
tourista), continuing with a luxurious, outdoor hot tub and sparkling
vino-dominated cruise, setting ashore in Rome, Pisa, Mallorca, Genoa and Cannes
(my body is now comprised of 55% gelato, 25% croquetas and 20% Cava) returning,
once more, por dos dias to the Gaudi-styled, Spanish metropolis, before finally
boarding an always delayed Delta airship back to the beautiful spacious skies and
amber waves of grain of home - possibly, the least civilized, welcoming
and charming destination on this lengthy itinerary. Along this Vasco De
Gama-ing, my hearty and steadfast travel companion and I had the enjoyable,
good fortune of meeting and conversing ("conversating" to daytime
T.V. courtroom show aficionados) with fellow world inhabitants from India,
Indonesia, England, France, Spain, the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Italy,
Poland, and even (gasp!) Mexico, and were reassured of this following obvious
fact (and a chemical and biological fact, it is indeedy - so hold onto your
Chinese-manufactured, white-supremacist MAGA chapeaus, Trumpsters) WE ARE ALL
THE SAME!! No matter your cultural upbringing, choice of worship or language
spoken; we all are kind, thoughtful and considerate, and we're all
self-centered, selfish, thoughtless and egomaniacal. We are all the best and
worst of times, none of which is determined by hue, tongue or happenstance of
location of birth.
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| A Conveyance Enabling as Escape from Insanity |
For any who depart the boundaries of the great 48 (with
additional props to Alaska and Hawaii), this time and distance removed from the
once-esteemed, now Trump-ghetto'd former U.S. of A, can provide a new and fresh
perspective about the planet we are precipitously depleting and destroying, the
bigoted antipathy spread from identical human to identical human, and the
foreboding fear and fury disseminated by the furor of the Orange Furher and his
purposely and proudly, hate-filled, zombie-horde of followers, who both support
and propel our nation's rapidly ruinous place in the worldwide society of man to
which we belong. To translate for those more mono-syllabic Trump/Fox/Info War-types
who may have regrettably happened upon this harangue, in other words, we Americans
kind of suck - we do - and you who hug the flag and buss the Bible and stake
claim to be the most patriotic and most American amongst the 300 million of us,
are truly and easily the worst of us. Congrats, at least you've accomplished
something.
When one ponders the horrific nature of what we Americans
and those onlookers across the globe have come to accept as the everyday and
normal in Trumplandia, added to the sorrowful sin that we citizens aren't
taking to the streets in daily outrage, nor storming the gates of 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue, Frankenstein-esque pitchforks and torches in hand,
demanding the immediate removal of the sociopathic, Mad-King, the greatest
enemy our country has ever encountered, by what possible sick and perverted
measure can anyone still blast the ever-annoying daily boast, that the United
States is the greatest country in the world - largest number of kidnapped and
caged babies growing up and dying in American concentration camps - most gun
deaths and school shootings - greatest frequency of synagogue burnings – swiftly
expanding wealth disparity between the escalating population of poor and the
ever-richer affluent – catastrophically expanding number of uninsured people
and the resulting bankruptcies and very avoidable deaths, perhaps? If bloviated
repetitive brags, and wishing and hoping and planning and scheming made it so,
as Dusty Springfield warbled, "you will be his" and my shiny, naked
pate would be topped with a sumptuous mane, while I squired my beloved Freema Agyeman
from Michelin touted eatery to Michelin touted eatery. But alas, wild-eyed
wishes and felonious fabrications do not make it so.
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| Ah, Freema! |
The question must be asked, is Donald J. Trump - thief, liar, tax evader, philanderer, sexual assaulter, child-rapist, con-man, traitor, racist, the very vision of Mephistopheles on Earth, Messiah to the brainwashed and brain-dead, the cause of America's current endless Pandora's Box of evils and woe, or rather the logical and inevitable result of what we are and what we've always been - a nation built on the back of one enslaved race, on land stolen by the genocide of another? Millions have gleefully and passionately embraced his merciless message of hatred, intolerance and xenophobia, while the pols of the Republican party have found in him someone so soulless, so without compassion, decency, humanity or empathy, a viper so voraciously vindictive and vile; the long sought-after vehicle to fulfill all the poisonous and pestilent, hateful and hurtful policies that previously were just unfulfilled and fruitless fantasies - an America about stealing from the poor to give to the rich, about cheating and harming others, about selfishness, anger, bitterness, prejudice and unfettered hatred, an America solely of, by and for the wealthy white male.
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| America's Legion of Doom |
Take a journey, fly over this cuckoo's nest, sail from these
shores (you can use an exotic cruise, there's a bar in far Bombay) partake in a
restful and needed sojourn, removed from the lunacy and loathing that emanates
every week, every day, every minute from Donald Trump and the fellow traitors
that enable him, and sadly see, as a temporary outside observer from this safe
distance - there are many great countries in the world, it's doubtful that the
United States, 2019, is among them.
"Come Fly with Me, let's fly, let's fly,
Pack up, let's fly away"
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