Playing Fair and Being Kind

Hard Times Have No Beginning

Inspired by Mississippi Goddam
I’ve been preoccupied a lot lately. For about a couple years more or less. This goddam president is nuttier than a fruit-cake and everyone is quiet. Everyone meaning those who can do something about it. This jerk is a cancer on the world. No one is immune from his stupidity, meanness, narcissism, fucked-upness. Where is the supposed dark-state when you need them most?
I remember back in the early sixties there was a guy on the pre-commissioning crew of a boat we were building in Newport News, Virginia. He had a dog that was a terror. The dog was huge; a mongrel with a great amount of German Shepherd in him. He weighed more than most people I know, plus he had teeth, and a disposition of a maniac. I met him one time and that was plenty. The owner was with the dog and had his hands full containing it. I had my dog with me but I wouldn’t let them get close because the other one was too damned excited to trust.
This other dog reminds me of the president. Brainless. It is enervating to be around a personality like this. There is no place for the mind to go when in the presence of such a terrible personality. One has to become the mirror image of such a being. One has to mimic and become that monster in order to survive. The brain, heart, soul dies when that happens. It is a survival tactic, to be sure. But not all parts survive.
Every time this fuck-stick causes headlines he wins. I don’t know how it happens. People point to Hitler and his rise to fascist power as an example of what is going on in the present. I see it. I see the same thing. This country is scary for everyone. This state of affairs is on a roll and not capable of being slowed down. We, as a country, as a culture, are heading for a tragic ending of sorts. People are falling off this juggernaut and getting crushed under the wheels. When did we get to this point? I don’t know. Do you? When did we begin to accept the cruel, revolting, hateful, humiliating, inferior leadership we have presently? I can’t seem to get a focus on the situation because it is a continuous riot of embarrassing and disrespectful behavior from Washington. In my mind there is no beginning. It has always been.
The shit-bird in charge has been using a tactic of attack on our country that entails carpet bombing-like precision. We in the Navy used to claim that “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit”. Shit-bird #1 is using this ploy in rapid-fire repetition. In fact, his latest racist diatribe toward the freshman congressional women seems to be a cover for the sleaze that has oozed out of the pedophilia coming to light in his administration. Which brings me to my point that an astonishing stream of revulsion has been uncorked upon us. Here is Nina Simone to illustrate the list of insults that can overwhelm a population.

The lyrics are included in the link under the video.
I am only able to read about our situations two or three days a week and when I finish soiling my whole being with the news I can only mutter; Donald Trump Goddam!