A Total Snafu!

I honestly did not want to write about Politics today. I was planning another subject altogether, especially that two weeks ago I did not – and for the first time since 2013 – publish anything as I was Unmotivated and Uninspired. However, I woke up two days ago and felt that there is a palpable change in the air from the Total Snafu (a situation marked by errors or confusion; problem that has ballooned) we have been living these past few months! Did you feel it too? I’m watching and listening to the same news that you already know. So, often I feel that I am being redundant and, maybe even boring. Forgive me, but here goes with my take:

During this past month, and more so than ever, events and happenings have been enough to drive my mind into quite a paranoid state! On the one hand we have our US President presiding from his recently tastelessly gilded Oval Office over Meetings, Interviews and Exchanges with Foreign Leaders, Oligarchs and CEOs, as well as his fawning, adulating Department Heads declaring that: “We Are The Hottest Country On The Planet!” He also announces that money is flowing into our coffers as never before; factories are being built; industry is coming back; the stock market is soaring; jobs are abounding; criminals, rapists and gang members are being rounded up; non-documented humans are being shipped out of the country to be tortured, raped and, maybe, disappeared; we have made peace between Eight? Countries; the wars in Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Palestine – where there is NO Ceasefire and a Covert Genocide, Starvation, Uprooting, Displacement Campaign is ongoing with full force –  are being solved and everyone will be happy and on and on and on of What? Delusions? Wishful Thinking? Fantasies? Exaggerations? Outright Lies? Might it be that we are all wrong, and that in a few months, as some are saying, things will be just Fantastic? Or, What Exactly, because on the other hand I look up facts and figures, honest news items, reliable investigative journalism pieces, actual videos from on-the-ground reporters, real Humans talking about how Tough it is out there these days; how they are worried about their and their children’s future; about their grocery, electric and other bills; about the diminishing, ruthless, merciless healthcare in the country; about the high cost of rents and housing; about how we are being taxed for the very air that we breath and I wonder What Is So Hot About All That? Moreover, we now have the added worry of the Ghosts of all our Wars – especially Dubya’s! – coming home to haunt us and, as one example, assail our brave National Guard in Washington DC, killing one and another in critical condition? Heartbreaking! Tragic!!

I have said it previously in my blogs, but forgive me for repeating it again today: Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave When We So Choose To Deceive! And, it seems to me that the evil tangled web that Trump has woven around himself is beginning to come apart, isn’t it? And, again, it seems that: He who digs a Hole For His Brother Falls Right Into It as many of our Moral, Ethical Judges are proving every day by repudiating Trump’s Vengeful Lawsuits, his Petty Retributions, and how he’s falling into the holes that he has been digging for his so-called enemies! Respect For All Those Judges putting Country and Constitution ahead of Party! Respect also for every Senator, Congressman/woman, Investigative Journalist, Protestors, Actors, Comedians, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Massie, Boebert and Mace and all those Speaking Out, especially about the shameful Epstein/Maxwell Scandal. Yes, Respect!

Respect also goes to Mayor Elect Mamdani for his chutzpah requesting to meet with President Trump. I was fearfully holding my breath lest he be Zelenskyy-ed! Seeing the two of them amicably together in the Oval Office? Are my eyes deceiving me, I wondered? Listening to them praising each other? How long will this cordiality last? Nevertheless and for Whatever Reason, I thought to myself, this President is quite capable of Choosing Another Path for Himself and the Nation. He can do that! He can do What Is Right rather than what some of the Evil-doers around him are dictating! Is he too Beholden to them perchance? What are they Holding Over Him? Or, perhaps Karma and the Universe may yet intervene and inspire him? Or, am I hallucinating now? My, oh my!

However, in an Unexplainable and Totally Weird Way Trump’s presence on our World’s Stage has managed to expose a whole lot of Rot that has been festering for far too long in our own country, and in the world, where the  Corrupt, the Ins and the Connected all over the Planet are living a Carefree Life, while most of us, the hoi polloi, are Struggling with Angst and Barely Making It, especially recently. Maybe inadvertently his looming presence has managed to expose this alarming disarray all over and how No One addressed it in Wise and Efficient ways (except none as loudly and persistently as the Conscience of America: Bernie Sanders and the Conscience of the United Kingdom: Jeremy Corbyn): the Greed; the Arrogance; the Hedge Fund Managers who have their Sinister Noses up Every Institution, University, Corporation, Pharmaceutical Company, Health Insurance Corporations, Banks etc. etc. leading them to lobby and bribe every one of our Corrupt Politicians, to raise the prices of everything and change and rewrite policies to the advantage of Greed; Glaring Disparity; Unforgivable Injustice; Unfair Inequality; Merciless Cruelty and Inhumanity; Violence; Ineptness; Incompetence and Corruption of Governments almost Everywhere – and that’s not all of it!

What gives me a glimmer of Hope, though, is that Only The American People have the Ability and the Potential for Spear-heading a Movement that can Inspire The World and that can reign in the insidious Authoritarianism, Injustice and Arrogance! Surely, if any Nation can do that it is this Democracy (flawed as it is), armed with this American Constitution that has Inspired me and so many across the world? Surely? Surely!!