Counting Backwards

Not since I was counting down the days until October 12, 1973, my release from military madness, have I marked the days off a calendar. I do so now with big red X’s, and I do it with the knowledge that the days will pass, just as they did back in 1973. We have 150 days until we can Make America Glorious Again, by voting out of office, the aiders and abettors of our national disgrace.

The volatile trade wars, the petulant behavior and the arrogant buffoonery will soon be a nightmare of the past, similar to Dick Nixon and his tricks. The crimes against humanity will take an eternity to correct, but the crimes against the Constitution and the emoluments clause should occupy the immediate attention of the new [and improved] Congress.

Senator Mitch McConnell in his natural habitat 

The greed and avarice of the Republican Party, combined with its ongoing [successful] attempts to further subjugate the poor and sick of this country, are palpably appalling. The American public will reach out and smite these rattlesnakes, these abominations to all that is genuinely America.

I yearn for a time when athletes can exercise their right to protest, without being accused of being unpatriotic. To enforce patriotism puts us in the same class as North Korea or Nazi Germany. In the Land of the Free, mandated patriotism rings like a cracked bell. 

Senator Paul Ryan (note the lack of a rattle.)

Of course, the habitual human rights violations place our country right up there with those of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini, to name a few. Are immigrant kids really being separated from families? I know the photos of kids in cages and kids riding cattle cars must be fake, but part of me firmly believes that if it could be so, it would be. 

Will there still be a military parade on November 11th, after the tyrannical toddler is in his time-out corner? Will an obscene and vulgar border wall still be on the table? Will racism and misogyny still be the order of the day? Will we still be the laughingstock of the world?

I’m counting the days down, backwards, until the American public rises up and makes our country move forward again. Good will prevail over evil, intelligence will prevail over stupidity and karma will have a free-for-all. 

It’s not solely about getting rid of the Head Slime-Ball (along with the Vice-Slime-Ball), it’s about taking back our country from the illiterate. I know the Republican senators are illiterate, because if they could read, they would long since have been aware of how loathed they are.

Besides, you don’t have to be able to read, in order to check a bank balance, and that’s all that matters in the end.