2022 Ends

And so that year, 2022, now draws to a close. Huh! And who may we blame for bringing that one into existence?  Was that a Trump joke on all of us?

And what did we learn?

Oh that Trump is a total fraud and will always be a crook. Maybe he learned that from his daddy.  I mean, ending the year by selling dumbass cards with his picture on them for hundreds of dollars each seems worse even than selling fake currency tokens. And folks are actually sending out real money to purchase these fake things. Isn’t that a definition of terminally STUPID?

And we know now that Trump will never actually be brought to justice by anyone. I mean, he seems to have some varnish finish on him that prevents any law enforcement agent from actually touching him.  They do keep trying but it’s like some game he plays with other humans, when he isn’t conning them out of their money that is.

And then there is his BFF, Vlad the Impaler, who seems to be similar. I mean, he actually caused the invasion of a sovereign nation, The Ukraine, with no ostensible reason, and has continued bombing them and killing their citizens and nobody is willing to stop them. Just cuz stopping him would mean nuclear annihilation I guess. Silly huh?  And so the world now understands that any really big country can invade any other, neighboring country for any reason, and nobody will step in to say NO.  I wonder whether Xi Jinping is paying proper attention.  I know, I know, we keep threatening them that, should they attack Taiwan, we will step in. But what would we actually do? Bomb China??? Seems unlikely. So, Vlad has set a standard for the behavior of tyrants everywhere. Oh 2022, you have been so awful.

And back to here, we have had the final destruction of the Republican Party. Gads, remember republicans under Dwight Eisenhower, or even that idiot Ronald Reagan? I mean, they weren’t great then, but they weren’t Nazi’s either. Now they seem to have moved into Nazi’s of the 1936 Germany kind. Yeah, and the only real question is who will they choose to be their Adolph?  Trump sort of fills the bill, but then we also have Ronnie DeSantis, and a whole host of other minor, would-be Adolph’s. So, what ever happened to the old Republican Party, the one that at least pretended to have some ethical dimension?

And the American people no longer seem to care, and therein lies the real problem. We should be screaming at the rooftops, but I hear no serious screaming.  People of the Right persuasion seem to have totally surrendered to the charade of Republican language about Left-Wing ideology. All Democrats are apparently Soviets Commies of the old school according to the Repubs. And the American people, well almost half of them anyway, seem to have bought into that crap.  So, how can we run a civilized nation, when almost half the people no longer believe in civilization, or ethics, or morality any longer? Isn’t that how Nazi Germany came into existence?  All we need is a group they can label as “The Enemy”, like Adolph did to the Jews during the 1930s.

I keep awaiting the New Enlightenment to arrive. You know, that day, when Americans of all stripes say, OK, this is all bullshit and we ain’t gonna take it any longer. We want decent, civilized people as our Leaders in Government. You know, people who seem to actually know right from wrong.

Hmmm, maybe we should bring back Jon Stewart, only this time as US President. And let’s see, hey how about Samantha Bee as VEEP? Yeah, two comedians to run America.  First, comedians seem smarter than your average Joe (or Josephine). Second, most of them seem to hold an actual ethical dimension. Yeah, they actually seem to know right and wrong.  And then, who could we get as Secretary of State . . . oh I know, Trevor Noah. And then maybe John Oliver as Secretary of Defence?? And Larry Wilmore as Secretary of Education. Oh such fun.  So take it from there folks. Get your thinking gear operational and begin to reconceive the American Government. That will make such fun in, oh, how about 2023???

Yeah, take it away 2023!!!