When I read the article regarding the horrible, crass treatment by the President and Vice President towards the President of Ukraine, I was mortally ashamed of this nation and what we have become in just the first few days of the Trump Regime. If one were to ever wonder about the relationship of Trump’s regime and the regime of Putin’s Russia, the events of the past few days have given credence to any and every idea of such a relationship.
Trump and his ChristoFascist administration have shown themselves to be hellbent on turning this once proud American democracy into an authoritarian oligarchy. The actions of his ill qualified cabinet ministers, and his co-president, that bigot scumbag from South Africa, Elon Musk, prove unequivocally that their intent is to eradicate the democratic republic established by the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence they wrote and the Constitution that was established by these early founders. From gutting the Department of Education, to their invasion and theft of private data of all US Citizens using their invasion of the Treasury, the Social Security and other department’s computer/data systems these Trump fascist BrownShirts, led by Musk are compromising the integrity of our nation’s private information!
Trump’s relationship with Putin is placing our nation, and our security at a horrible level of risk. Russia is NOT our friend, but this everyone with an ounce of intelligence knows this totally. Trump with his backstabbing the nation of Ukraine, to the helping hand for Russia and the war mongering, Putin, is one more piece of evidence that he has no desire to be the President of the United States of America! And frankly neither does any of the current Republican Party politicians.
The nations who once counted themselves as allies and friends of the USA, no longer has that mindset nor do they trust this nation’s integrity, honor, or honesty. They all now consider us a pariah among nations and deal with us from a perspective of that they hold with nations like North Korea, China, Iran, Russia, and several others whose national integrity is severely lacking.
I have had several queries yesterday and this morning, about whether I will be watching the State of the Union rant by Trump. My response was a loud, vehement NO. I would rather someone put sharp needles in my ears than to pollute my hearing with more lies and bullshit from this fat incoherent traitor! Cannot imagine the mind damage that those will actually do attend or watch this dictator wannabe spew his disconnected sentences, his total lies, his Hitlerian accusations toward anyone not in his sphere of rabid right wing fascist theocracy dictatorship. Of course I have no doubt that the unelected co-president Musk will be at his right hand, grinning his bigoted smirk and stealing more billions of taxpayer dollars at the same time. No thank you.
Several of my friends have already departed these shores for places where freedom is still active, four left last week for British Columbia, one of the most beautiful spots on this continent. Two friends left the middle of February for residency in Costa Rica, where the climate is wonderful, the beaches are fabulous and the cost of living is such that a senior on retirement pension can live just fine and not have to put up with the Trump ChristoFascist regime’s Blackshirt Gestapo (not yet organized but coming), invading their homes and dragging them off to the concentration camps (still in planning stage). And lastly another couple of friends have taken and passed the test for citizenship as Britain citizens with an eye of migrating to Great Britain in the near future. They will sell their house, attempt to sell their two Tesla cars (but that will be difficult because people are no longer wanting those Musk mobile crap cars), then hie themselves off to the British Isles. Wish we could join them, but our financial situation is nowhere near as strong as theirs.
As some of you may know, I spent my younger years as a military kid, my dad was in the US Air Force. It was said that I was born with khaki diapers. I was able to tour and witness the horror that pervaded the concentration camps where millions were murdered by the Hitler regime, in those early days following the War’s ending when several of us kids grabbed tour tickets for those WWII sites. Our dads and moms were heavily involved in ridding the world of these truly evil scum.
I truly hope that such horrors do not come about in our country, but I most assuredly do not hold a blind eye and thought that “it would never happen here”. I know that the regular German citizen felt the same way, when Hitler took over the German legislative organization, burned the Reichstag (blamed it on “those people”) and initiated violence such as the Kristallnacht where thousands of Jewish businesses and homes were attacked by the Brownshirts, Jews were beaten, some killed, and their homes raided with valuables stolen. All in one night initiated by Hitler’s best buddy Hermann Goering. Goering was the architect of the SS, the Concentration Camps, the Gas Chambers and the mass graves.
None of Hitler’s inner circle were at all to be considered blameless. They were all complicit in the damage to the world and Europe for certainty. The damage and deaths that occured that night was propagandized as a result of the violations of law and public security and the average citizen believed the lies. As the NAZI mantras went, tell the lie big, tell it often and even the most doubtful will begin to believe.
As so it went, the German government was suborned by Hitler and his unelected thugs, their legislature was destroyed and rebuilt as Hitler’s rubber stampers. Of course once he made himself Chancellor, he no longer consulted with those men ever again, becoming in fact a full dictator. If one were to carefully look at the actions being taken by the current Trump regime, his Hermann Goebbels (Musk) and the evolving Brownshirts/Gestapo groups, the complacency of the Congress and the Supreme Court, one can envision the potential for an evolutionary process into a Hitlerian style autocratic regime with Trump as the dictator for life.
But hey, what the hell, surely that couldn’t happen here. No way could we have a government that uses force on the citizens (especially those of color), and to fulfill the dreams of total partnering with Putin and his Russian government. Nah, can’t be happening here.
Yeah? Tell that to the Ukrainians, to the Kurds, they have seen the dangers of Trump’s alliance with fascist and theocratic states up close. Remember the Kurds who were our staunch allies in the Middle East dangers? Remember how the Turkish Government and Trump’s first regime allowed the slaughter of these men, women, children, and elderly? I do! Ukraine is probably even now considering that evidence of Trump’s kowtowing to the governments that is determined to eradicate their nation!
This old Vietnam Vet worries and is saddened at the lack of honor that is about in our nation. Where once we had neighbor working with neighbor to the betterment of our country, our states, cities, and neighborhoods, today we have a full on we/them attitude that rips our nation asunder, and allowing full on anti-democracy autocrats to gain authority positions and begin the dismantling of our once honorable nation. I am old enough to remember when our country, the United States of America was looked upon by the world as a integrity based, honorable and honest nation. When our people were counted on to give our word, extend our hand, and stand by our honor. No longer, the European nations now look at how our President and Vice President bullied the President of Ukraine. How the next act by these two faces of America then stopped the flow of support from our country to the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their very nation and it freedoms. Support that has been given in an honorable pact by one administration and then dishonorably stopped the next administration’s dishonest leadership.
One has to simply look upon the hillside at Arlington House/National Cemetery and feel the sadness as the lives given to protect our democracy, our personal freedoms and our very way of life, only to have that be placed in severe harm by political ideologues’ who have but one goal, destroy the very foundation of our democracy. We veterans weep in our hearts and minds at the dangers facing us, our families and our future family.
Lord Help Us, we face unforeseeable dangers ahead.
Musings of a Geriatric Curmudgeon 