A “Bedford Falls” Future.

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.

RKO © 2022

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"
VOTE BY MAIL: a Republican Nightmare

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.

Unintelligence and Ignorance Combined

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?

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.