Fear and Forgetfulness

 I wrote the previous post in September - and then decided to wait to publish for cooler heads to prevail. I never got back to it - mainly due to my forgetfulness, but also due to the fact that the insanity just keeps getting worse.

And now, the King of Hypocrites once again defies all logic and does something so grotesque in the wake of Rob and Michele Reiner's murder that it defies all imagination - of anyone with even just an ounce of moral fiber. From one old goat to another - Jonathan Alter sums it up nicely.

Every day, I will post something until Trump and is minions are no longer in power. Many of whom hopefully will end up in jail. None of this is normal. And we cannot forget a SINGLE thing.

Fear Will Not Win

 

In the shadows of threats and lies, we rise together and refuse to be silenced.

I have been struggling to figure out what I am feeling in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder in Utah last week. I knew the immediate grifting that would follow from the Trump administration and I fully expected to hear fury in the voice of Kirk's widow. As a widow myself (for those who do not know, I lost my best friend and husband to a non-violent, yet sudden death), I am trying to have empathy for her - though threats and false accusations are usually barriers to empathy - for me anyway.

If there is a list underway, as a former journalist and a true believer in the Constitution of the US of A, I hope I am on it. There is no place for murder - anywhere - but nor should there be room for falsehoods, hypocrisy or the double standards of haters, racists, grifters, misogynists and xenophobes.

WTF

I can't believe I have to explain this to the new york times another baffling example of how mainstream is failing us... https://substack.com/@jefftiedrich/note/c-134250144?r=2ck22f

No Shame

Just look at the bug eyes on South Africa's President Ramaphosa. The mass graves cited by Trump were protest props. My outrage (besides the obvious of course)? Grade schoolers could have prevented what happened in the White House today. There is NO ONE to stop him?