Woe is Me - and Thee!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

The "crazy" just keeps coming, always daily and sometimes even hourly.  The bizarreness emanating from the Trump White House is so unrelenting that it is hard, if not impossible, to maintain the appropriate level of outrage.  It's overwhelming!

Two days ago Trump was encouraging other countries to take in Palestinians from Gaza because the territory, which borders a long stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, has been decimated to the point that there is no "home" to which they can return.  The next day he met with Bibi Netanyahu in the Oval Office, and now he is talking about the US buying Gaza and turning it into "The Riviera of the Middle East."   

Who would you write that check to Donald?  The Palestinian Authority?  Israel?  The United Nations?

(One has little need to wonder whose name he envisions on at least some of the luxury hotels and golf courses.  What's the point of being President if you can't parlay the position into more personal wealth and vain pleasures?)  

Trump's richer half, Elon Musk, has brought the USAID agency to a screeching halt, which should produce even more prime land for the oligarchs to seize and "develop."  The days of US tax dollars going to support things like education and healthcare, and to combat the scourges of hunger and disease, are rapidly coming to an end.

Musk's secret agents/computer nerds have invaded the offices of multiple government agencies and taken over computer systems.  In just over two weeks they have been given - and sometimes seized - control of systems that let them examine our taxes, social security payments and benefits, and Medicare and Medicaid histories.  Privacy is gone.  Big Brother has it all.

Ignorance rocks and famine rules - and economic fairness is something we will never be allowed to afford.  Those who control Earth's resources have them in a death grip.  The last ounce of drinkable water in the entire world will be flushed down the toilet of a white billionaire.

A friend telephoned yesterday in a growing panic over a television commentary that she had seen which suggested that when the Supreme Court finally steps up and moves to limit Trump's power grab, he will just openly disregard and defy the justices and their ruling.  The commentator had predicted that would happen in a matter of days.  I responded that Andrew Jackson had openly defied the Supreme Court and gotten away with it -  a remark which did nothing to soothe my friend.  My other thought was that this particular Supreme Court may just ignore the scraps of paper on the floor that used to be the Constitution and go have cocktails in Clarence's RV while democracy is ripped to shreds.

It's all so depressing, and my lack of a fireball response further pushed my friend into the throes of depression.  "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!" She seemed to be saying.  "No, it already has fallen," was the rejoinder that I kept to myself.

American humorist Garrison Keillor had some thoughts about Elon Musk in his internet column today.  Keillor's closing paragraph was so good that I would like to share it here.

"I guess I'm just Elon Musk at heart.  Give me an office in the White House, let the old guy revise the Constitution with a wave of a Sharpie all he likes, I will give the Nazi salute when and where I please, and when the Earth burns up, I will be sitting on Mars eating a Milky Way, and I care not that I'm the only human being in the universe."

That sums it up.