Well, here we are, 9 days into the year 2025! Got past the holidays without an alcohol buzz, saw a first snowfall in our new Williamsburg senior home and had a great Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday visit with our kids and grandkids, yes even the grand Dogs.
The bride and I entered this new year of 2025 with some trepidation and disgust. We saw our nation vote for a person that had been fired by the people only four years prior, become President again. WTF???
We also saw our Congress overturned with the election of a majority of Republicans in both the House and Senate, granted the majority is very small, but it is still there. What the hell was our electorate thinking?
We discovered after the election that millions more of Americans decided to sit on their asses this year and not vote. Why? Well for the mostly stated reason that they “didn’t like Kamala”! Good GOD, seriously?? So instead they wound up with a convicted felon who had shown himself to be one of the most corrupt asshats to ever hold an elected position. Hells bells, even the Tammany Hall crooks would have been in awe of the corruption, lies, and criminality of Donald Trump. Yet, these lazy assholes sat on their couches, watched TV, sipped wine, because they didn’t like the woman candidate in the Democratic Party. A bunch of people who take advantage of this country’s bounty and refuse to perform their responsibility as citizens to VOTE. These people make this old curmudgeon sick of their anti-American action by refusing to get off their fat asses to go to the voting locations, and do their citizen responsibility by VOTING. A bunch of lazy assholes frankly.
This political status now is coupled with the previous installation of a majority of corrupt/ChristoFascist Justices in our once supreme Court, alas it is no longer a true Supreme institution. So where does that leave us? The three sections of our federal government are all in the rabid right wing sector of our nation.
This actual convicted felon as President elect has already shown us his intent to destroy our democracy by appointing people to executive positions in the Federal offices who are not only outlandishly unqualified, but have shown themselves to be in opposition to the operational charges assigned to the departments and offices they are being positioned for, including an avowed anti-vaccine misanthrope RJK, Jr, whose own family disavows him as a kook with this strange and totally wrong positions.
The Department of Education is already identified as one of their prime targets for elimination in the coming year or so. Look for the Department of Defense to become horribly mismanaged by a drunken slot and who will try to pressure our military to follow Trump’s possible (yes he as indicated so), military action against the US citizens who may have the temerity to actually protest.
Of course, sadly, Robert Kennedy, Jr. is not the only vastly unqualified candidate put forward by the incoming President. Not satisfied with playing havoc with the established organizations of our government, the returning convicted felon is establishing a new “Department” that will be headed up by two super RICH guys, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are to be charged with making the government more cost efficient/effective through the felonious Trump’s forthcoming Department of Government Efficiency. That is Republican speech for slash and burn for our government agencies who are focused for the most part on providing benefits and service to the CITIZEN!
One of these two identified by the fat felon President-elect is a South African bigoted paid green card resident super billionaire, Elon Musk. Yeah, can you can Conflict of Interest? You bet your bippy that old Elon will be filling his bank accounts with tax dollars, bitcoin and any other currency he can squeeze from his official links into our federal government. The other “partner/co-director” in this new Trump Organization is Vivek Ramaswamy, who counts as one of his friends and business associates the jail bird scumbag, Martin Shkreli who was found guilty in two separate court actions and fined millions with a substantial multiple million dollar judgement going to the victims of Shkreli’s horrendous manipulation of medical products. Oh yeah, Martin is banned from ever being involved businesses like those he screwed over. Nice going Vivek, good folks in your cast of buddy’s
Evidently the Republican Party only cares about conflict of interest, insider trading, and corporate malfeasance when it is not one of their friends and Party members. By the way, these two rich slimeballs have already indicated targets such as education, seniors social security, medicare and a host of other programs oriented toward service to the citizens. And they haven’t been sworn in yet!!!
Oh well, hold on to your safety belts folks, it’s get bumpy from here.
ONWARD
Musings of a Geriatric Curmudgeon 