Looking back at some of the biggest events of the year is a deed that should qualify a person for some counseling or possibly a prescription of one of those medications advertised on television. The medicines with all the syllables and awful side effects.
On January 9th, in a thrilling contest, fought bitterly to the end, the Georgia Bulldogs beat the Horned Frogs of Texas Christian University 65 to 7 to win the national championship. Ushering in the new year with an indiscriminate display of poor sportsmanship leading to the complete humiliation of a proud group of athletes.
It may have been the brightest moment of the year.
Trump, while campaigning for president, spoke in glowing terms of the alleged size of professional golfer Arnold Palmer’s private parts. Imagine a man running for the highest office in the country speaking proudly of another man’s penis. Or don’t imagine it, watch the video.
He accused Haitians, living in Springfield Ohio, of stealing and cooking the pets of their neighbors. After the mayor, several of the largest employers, and the general population of the small city said it wasn’t true, Trump and his running mate JD Vance doubled down, claiming, in essence, that almost everybody in Springfield, elected officials, first responders, the wait staff at local restaurants, and citizens were lying to keep him from getting elected. If the campaign had gone another month, he would have claimed immigrants were practicing cannibalism.
The President Elect, in an official statement, claimed his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris was lying about having worked at McDonalds. As if the prestige of the golden arches were the selling point that would deny him the presidency. At one point during the campaign, and his presidency, and probably often, in private, while trying to impress members of the fairer sex, (chicks dig thin guys, you know) Trump claimed his weight, total weight, mind you, not just his arms and legs, was 215 pounds. A noted dietician and weight loss consultant claimed; “if you filled him with helium Trump would weigh more than 215 pounds.”[1]
Our incoming administration is threatening the rights of the weakest among us. “Bathroom bills” are being advanced and passed. Reproductive rights are being debated, and women’s healthcare is being strangled. A man who, openly, and on tape, boasted about his ability to grope and fondle contestants in a beauty pageant, some only children, claimed, “Well, I’m going to do it, whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them.” It’s safe to say many of them aren’t going to like it.
Trump isn’t satisfied with taking from people in the USA, either. In a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, for Turning Point’s “America Fest” Trump promised to act as rashly and awfully as possible, including reattaching the Panama Canal to American territory. Panama, he said, “was ripping us off.” A common theme for the President Elect. Trump seems to believe that America is not the preeminent world power the media and educational system led us to believe it was, but a hollow, straw giant, with a learning deficit, being taken advantage of by confidence men and charlatans around the globe. He wants to claim Greenland as a territory and has suggested making Canada the 51st state. Obviously, a ploy to sell new American flags with an additional star or two. “Trump flags[2], signed by Trump, with a gold border, and the face of the 47th president stitched in glowing orange, onto the blue field. Only $49.95 with the purchase of a Big Mac supersized meal.”
Wars are raging around the globe. Droughts, and floods, snowstorms, hurricanes, open, malignant range fires burning out of control, society could be nearing the end. The climate is degenerating into the behavior of a small child, with a large soda pop, and a bag of candy, filled with artificial sweeteners. Similar, in many ways, to the next president. The words of Bob Dylan come to mind.
“Every new messenger brings evil report
’Bout armies on the march and time that is short
And famines and earthquakes and hatred written upon walls…
I see the screws breaking loose, see the Devil pounding on tin
I see a house in the country being torn apart from within
I can hear my ancestors calling from the land far beyond.”[3]
Life on earth is provisional. Things are getting worse all the time, and a small amount of sanity is where we need to start. But what we get is another dose of Celebrity Apprentice, Executive Branch Edition. I’ll see you in 1028, if we’re still here.
[1] Not really, I made that up, who knew lying could be so fun and easy.
[2] Made and sewn in China
[3] Caribbean Wind, by Bob Dylan
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