I am really kind of beside myself tonight. I had a forced break from the news and participating here due to a bad run in with this year’s really scary flu, AND a bronchitis virus going around, a double whammy that landed me in the ER and then flat on my back for days. I couldn’t even read, because it hurt to focus that much. And I certainly was not about to watch the news, which in my greatly weakened state, might just have done me in. My beloved hubby found old movies and series for us to watch. BTW, “I Love Lucy” is STILL really funny.
But then finally, after 10 long days, I found myself rising again, comin’ around the mountain and feeling good again. I started watching the news again, and reading here again. Once a news junky always a news junky, not to mention my desire to find where I can help, donate, be part of the resistance.
Couple things happened. First I read Jen Hayden’s piece on what we are putting our children through in terms of “active shooter drills.” Every person here needs to read this, and our press needs to catch up with Jen and put this story out, EVERYWHERE. It is a disgusting assault on who we are that we have accepted it is normal to put our children through this. And I realized, that IS exactly what we’ve decided, and it is exactly who we are. And it sickens me in a way the flu did not.
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Then, as I came back to focus and ability to hear, I kept hearing about the porn star. Seriously, she got as much coverage as North Korea. Maybe more. Oh yeah, some say it’s the legal thing that’s the deal---did Trump’s campaign break laws in paying her off, one way or the other?
Trump and his administration have broken so many bigger laws and violated so many accepted ethics of government, it is ridiculous to me to make a big deal about Stormy whatsherface--- as this country cannot seem to keep their children safe at school, or their minorities safe anywhere. As this rich country cannot seem to take care of its sick or its poor. As our infrastructure falls apart, and the consequences of climate change are obvious. As regulations to keep our parks our parks, and our rivers and lakes clean are undone. As the ONLY legislation passed under Trump is a tax bill that so obviously makes the rich richer and the middle class poorer, that makes income ineqaulity WHO WE ARE.
And all the while, we have to talk about the porn star. No one cares about it. Certainly not the evangelical right who are serene and A OK w/a president who cheats, as in, aren’t we all sinners? Let alone a president who has sexually assaulted and harassed many a woman. Again, aren’t we all sinners? And hey, that Donald sure says what he thinks, and ain’t that great?
Meanwhile, the left doesn’t know quite what to do with Stormy, because well, y’know, Bill and Monica. So we pretend that it is very important that we find out if any campaign rules were broken. Oh. My. God. I cannot even imagine how many campaign rules and laws were broken in Trump’s campaign...not to mention his attempts at obstruction of justice in the Russian investigation, and most of all NOT TO MENTION HIS REFUSAL TO LIFT A DAMN FINGER TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN’T HAPPEN AGAIN.
And still, the porn star leads 70% of all headlines and coverage since I’ve come back from “I Love Lucy.”
Folks, this is what I call ROT. Terrible, oozing, smelly rot. I don’t care what Donald and Stormy did, consensually, any more than I cared what Bill did with Monica. I DO care about the fact that Bill lied about it and made his own smelly mess. But Jesus Christ on a surf board and all that, Bill is a mere piker compared to Donald and his consensual perversions, not to mention his Weinstein like list of harassment and assault
But hey, if the right is A OK w/all of that, and THEY SO ARE, then let’s please let it not be about the porn star and the naked emperor. Let’s just make it about the naked emperor. His unending incompetency, his inability to make a deal, his inability to lead or inspire, his endless cruelty and childishness, his ignorance, his narcissistic stupidity. Yeah, let’s make it about that, and let Stormy haunt Melania, not us.
We have SO MANY BIGGER FISH TO FRY then Trump’s lack of morality or what he did with his dick when. Sorry to put so fine of a point on it, but that’s what we’re talkin’ about here.
I want to talk about health care and infrastructure, and climate change, and FAIR taxation, and so many things other than freaking Stormy.
Like I said, pure ROT to get caught up in this, and a brilliant distraction for Trump, considering none of his base gives a flip where he put it or why.
I did not think I could feel sicker than I did when felled by two bad bugs, only to return to the world of news and find it ever so much more sickening.