A “Bedford Falls” Future.

I wrote a poem, “The Great Bandini” in my last post on my POET-TREE.com site. It was about a has-been circus performer whose bravado and bluster finally killed him.

His bluster was most likely the result of a lifelong search for love and acceptance from everyone and anyone, especially from his father.

This bluster became his greatest strength as an entertainer and his greatest weakness as a human being.

As a result, his inability to tolerate weakness in himself or others prevented him from ever developing empathy for others.

He always controlled conversations and dismissed any constructive criticisms. He always believed that he knew more than anyone else.

When confronted with ideas new to him, he would pretend that he knew every nuance of that subject. If that failed, he proclaimed that nobody had ever thought of that concept before.

He therefore became a constant showman, and carnival barker.
This resulted in his having to always con, bribe or pay to feel any kind of love during his lifetime.

Sometimes life imitates art; Mr. “Pretender to the Presidency”.
The outgoing Obama administration left you a Pandemic Emergency Preparation Manual. As a result of your petty disdain of anything related to President Obama, you immediately dismissed it.

We had a safety net in place for this Pandemic ready to catch us.
Not being satisfied with cutting holes in that net, you removed it completely along with the professionals who would have implemented it.

You say you want our country to return to normal. Your “normal” is where the elite call the shots and the goal of business is profit with no thought given to the detrimental impact on the environment or civilization.

Business devoid of conscience results in every city and town becoming a “Pottersville” as in Frank Capra 1946 film “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

When this pandemic is finally defeated, we should not rebuild the past but forge a new future of altruistic capitalism. Then both large corporations and small businesses will treat all their employees as a trusted and valued investment.

People’s health care must not be tied to their employment. Many unemployed are now seeing the holes in that safety net.

Returning to “Normal” is not an option. That “Normal” was a failure for the majority of Americans. We must be better than that.
Let us all strive for a better, brighter future. This November 3, 2020, Election Day will be the beginning of that brighter, hope filled future; a Frank Capra “Bedford Falls” future.

UPDATE

We won in 2020, but in the intervening 4 years, Trump and his “MAGAteers” have strived to recreate their degenerate POTTERSVILLE once again. PLEASE get out. RING BELLS! AND VOTE all MAGA candidates out.

An angel gets his wings; a scene from Frank Capras' film, "It's a Wonderful Life"

TrumpaCare: “We will cover you.”

(AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

“I WANT TO GET YOU ALL BACK TO WORK AGAIN. I, er… I mean, we can’t afford to have my, er… I mean, our economy stagnate. I promise you will have the best healthcare, and everybody knows I never go back on a promise. Billy Barr will vouch for me on that. Won’t you Billy? … Billy?”

“You will all be covered under “TrumpaCare”. Nobody will be overlooked or forgotten. I never miss a thing. That wasn’t really toilet paper on my shoe. Sharp Mind you know. I see everything.”

No Donald! Americans are having to stay home now. They are finally able to see and hear all your exaggerations and lies.

You are nothing but a petulant impatient blustering buffoon, shored up by GOP ass-kissers.

Your cultish followers are unable to think for themselves. It is easy to lead the uninformed by blaming all their problems on and scapegoating the “others”. They believe life would be so much better if we got rid of them all.

Sadly, that’s what happened in Germany in the years between 1930 and 1945, when their citizens fell for the promises of their Fuhrer Adolf Hitler.

The thinking public realize that you do not govern through action, but only through knee jerk reaction.

You react with bluster and blame only. You take credit for other people’s accomplishments.

Reactions to a PANDEMIC late in the fight fall short of Actions that were taken in advance preparing for a possible PANDEMIC.

Do we all want to be covered by “TrumpaCare”? I don’t think so!

It seems MAGA now stands for:

Making America’s Graves Abundant.

“Rally around the Flag” moments

Our citizens have always “rallied around the flag” in moments of great crisis; Pearl Harbor, John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and Nine-eleven.

Though more localized, the Boston Marathon Bombing, recent hurricane disasters as well as the raging forest fires that ravaged our Western states have all united and focused us.

Today during this COVID-19 pandemic many Americans have self quarantined. They see this as not only protecting themselves, but also protecting all their family members. I believe that deep down they know their isolation is protecting their community and their country.

We have all seen the compassion of our neighbors and the fortitude of our first responders, and the unrelenting dedicated service of our medical community.

We have seen grocery store employees show up to work in what must be considered a hazardous environment.

We, whether alone or with our families gather each day in front of televisions to watch the daily pandemic news briefings.

We receive advice and comfort from the medical experts at these briefings, however these “rally around the flag” moments have turned into a “rally ‘round his flatulence” moments.

We’re all confined in small spaces like occupants in stalled elevators. The smell of Donald’s lies creeps up on us. Enveloped, we yearn for blessed escape.

Many in his GOP party have not only grown accustomed to the aroma but have actually BRANDED it. They sell it on each of their Infomercial briefings to a captive audience.

Our so called “leader” treats each of these briefings as a sideshow and a GOP campaign rally.

He blames anyone and everyone for the sad state we are all in now. All while his arrogance, his disdain for the free press, his lack of intelligence, and his poor leadership skills are on display.

Some are buying what he has to sell, but hopefully most are not.

Rally ‘round his flatulence at your own peril.

VOTE BY MAIL: a Republican Nightmare

VOTE BY MAIL is a Republican Nightmare.

Speaking to the media on 4/7/2020, President “Wee Willie Winkie” blasted voting by mail again.

Wee Willie snorted: “I think mail-in voting is horrible, it’s corrupt.”

Reporter: “But you voted by mail in Florida’s election last month, didn’t you?”

Wee Willie: “Sure. I can vote by mail“

Reporter: “How do you reconcile with that?”

Wee Willie answers “Because I’m allowed to.”, while inwardly thinking to himself. “It’s really because I’m white, I am a Republican, and I am very, mucho rich and besides I am the President of the greatest country that I have ever owned. I can do whatever I want.”

Some of the leaders we’ve currently elected care more about holding on to power than the safety of voters in 2020 during a pandemic.

I felt a seismic tremor when the Democratic and Republican leaders predecessors rolled over in their graves this week on hearing this.

Interestingly, this coming Sunday is Easter. Perhaps these predecessors will all roll their stones aside, rise from their graves and beat the shit out of all the pretenders.

These pretenders better be willing now to run the gauntlet being prepared and waiting for them by our Forefathers and Foremothers.

(Yes, Foremothers is a word.)

I salute all the women that have served this great nation.

America’s Cheerleader

The “Commander in Grief” is now Americas Cheerleader.

As far back as late November, 2019, American Medical Intelligence officials warned the current administration that an uncontrollable disease was sweeping through China, and that it posed a threat to U.S.Forces in Asia.

This information ended up in our Presidential Pretenders’ Daily Briefings.

As recently as April 6, 2020 he was still claiming that no one saw the warnings, and that the virus came out of nowhere. He added that “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have ever happened.”

He also recently denied seeing a memo sent to him in January by Peter Navarro, a trade official in his administration, warning of the Corona Virus risk.

The memo stated that UP TO HALF A MILLION PEOPLE COULD DIE.

He is a threat to our nation when he ignores the intelligence community and the health care experts.

Ironically his disregard for expert advice has enabled him to keep one of his campaign promises. Our nation is now Number One. We are the number one nation having the most COVID-19 infections and COVID-19 deaths in the world.

I believe that he never read the memo, knowing that he refuses to go to briefings and finds reading memos difficult and annoying.

He relies on the kiss-ass pundits on One America News Network and Fox News to validate whatever warped idea he fabricates in his genetically modified, deep-fried Brain. (I no longer wonder why he is so orange.)

He sidesteps his incompetency with his usual faulting of everyone other than himself.

Now he says that he downplayed the seriousness of the Pandemic because he is America’s Cheerleader.

We don’t need a cheerleader.
We need a LEADER.

(Editorial Cartoon by Ann Telnaes / The Washington Post)

She brilliantly draws the Pompoms as Corona Virus. And I surmise the ME shirt monogram egotistically stands for MEDICALLY ENLIGHTENED. What a Joke.

It is going to disappear.

One can only hope he is talking about his incompetent leadership!

While first responders, doctors, nurses, medical staff valiantly risk their lives and cope with the stress of this seemingly endless Pandemic, our “fearless leader” sits and tweets that our hospitals medical staff should be investigated for pilfering Personal Protection Supplies.

He plays at his Pandemic war as if all Citizens are his toy soldiers.

We all know he loves to PLAY soldier.

He compares his front-line fighters to soldiers in World War 1 French Trenches being gassed by the enemy.

“Fight on valiant soldiers. I would send you gas masks, but I believe BIGGLY that it is the responsibility of every soldier’s home state to find, buy, and deliver masks to you. Good Luck.”

“Sorry I have to leave now. I have scheduled another Pandemic news conference.”

“A lot of people don’t know this, but I’m getting better ratings than the Bachelor Season Finale.”

Mirror Mirror on the Wall.

We have all seen television shows where an innocent man is thrown into prison and his cellmates ask him what he did to get in there.

He answers them by devoutly proclaiming his innocence.

To which they wink and reply, “Aren’t we all man. Everyone in here is innocent.”

It seems the guilty always believe other people are guilty.

Liars believe everyone else is a liar.

Crooks believe everyone else is crooked.

So, what does that show you about “DON” our White House Godfather when he insinuates that doctors and nurses want more masks so they can steal them?

“How do you go from 10 to 20, to 300,000—10 to 20,000 masks to 300,000—even though this is different? Something’s going on, and you ought to look into it, as reporters,” Trump said. “Where are the masks going—are they going out the back door?

Somebody should probably look into that, because I just don’t see from a practical standpoint how that’s possible to go from that to that, and we have that happening in numerous places.”

It stands to reason that a guy who has so long engaged in fraud after fraud would assume that nurses and doctors might be sneaking masks out of the hospitals to sell them on the black market at a big mark-up.

After all, that is exactly what he would do given the chance.

Unintelligence and Ignorance Combined

Unintelligent people have no intelligence. They are stupid, dull, dense, crass, and dumb. They lack the ability to absorb ideas or impressions.

Whereas ignorant people can be very intelligent. They either choose to ignore the facts and data presented to them, or the facts and data are merely unavailable to them.

The GOP praise their Emperor who lives in his own TWILIGHT ZONE, where unintelligence and ignorance co-mingle, and are valued above all else.

To be fair The Emperor has recently been forced to speak some truths to the American people during this current COVID-19 crisis.

Be thankful for Doctor Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His ability to bring light into a dark room is refreshing.

I can only hope that Citizens wake up, like the child in Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, who upon seeing the Emperor parading through the town buck naked, exclaimed, “But he hasn’t got anything on!”.

Our Emperor is parading through our homes every day only clothed in his bullshit lies.

Grant us the ability to wade through all the lies and finally see that our Emperor has no clothes.

Wow!, Such a small……..

Mind.

A “1984” solution to a “2020” COVID-19 Pandemic?

In the 1949 Dystopian Novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, by English novelist George Orwell, Big Brother used Doublethink as a process of indoctrination whereby citizens are expected to accept as true that which is clearly false, or to simultaneously accept two mutually contradicting beliefs as correct, even though one’s own memories or sense of reality refuted the concept.

Our own “President BIGGLY” exemplifies the Big Brotherly traits of hypocritical deception used by the State over its citizens in the novel “1984”.

He brags of knowledge that he sorely lacks.

He consistently hides behind a celebrity mask to fool the public and gain political benefit.

He pretends to lead while constantly passing the buck to others.

He whines “FAKE NEWS”, when reporters ask pertinent questions that conflict with his own interests.

As more and more people around the world are donning masks to venture outside their homes, it is time to look beyond “President BIGGLY’s” mask to see the Con artist living within.