ROT - 'Reign of Terror just came to me two days ago while replying in vid comments. Upon reading this brilliant essay. It may come to pass in future reflections, this era will be named to address what happened during this dire time.
I'm not looking for the best-case scenario, that is the problem with Democrats too ready to make excuses for bad behavior/outlooks. I'd rather assume the worst and work from there.
Meanwhile in Israel, he has become their God, they chant his name and boo down Bibi, Melania fresh out the spa by his side and Ivanka and Jarod standing on the diaz smiling.
The bedside book " Mein Kampf/" discarded for the moment , but we are still abusing and abducting the men and boys chained in Alligator camp forgotten and suddenly gone., the woman left by road side, child screaming and glass shattered.
The violence even as one shops ,where groceries now to expensive line the shelves and elsewhere the rotting food out in the fields where Americans will not tread.
Where at every low point an event happens to distract us and innocent young Men in jail forgotten or hidden accused of killing, but why was everybody so in cinque, that bullets were passed along and specials vans collected but not EMT ?
We stand here with only words and yet another text begging for money,NO, not again.
So guys stay in your comfy seats, talk about how we lost it all and wonder why not ONE MAN had the courage and strength to call us to fight for we were waiting....
I watched a short video of an armed ICE agent cuff a SIX YEAR OLD GIRL, hands behind her back, sobbing, separated from her mother, and forcing her into the back of a van!!!
But Merry, we don't make it stop, we learn that it's become the norm and then our never saturated enough brain craves for the next spike that will either cause despair or cause the thrill depending on which side you lean, nevertheless we all going down the same road, no one's getting off ,noone saying it's enough, we just keep walking on to see what the exit reveals....
I absolutely understand that. It was just a spontaneous response to my internal angst, as well as the collective anxiety most people are feeling during these tumultuous times. Obviously a fundamental part of trump’s strategy, his scheme to become a dictator, is to generate as much chaos, uncertainty and fear as possible, as quickly as possible. And I can always choose how to respond to every situation I’m going through.
I DO reject that we should accept it as the “norm” now. That can lead to complacency. Which I certainly am not.
But since no one on Substack knows anything about me (I prefer to remain anonymous) except by interpreting what I write, it’s natural for some to give me guidance. I get that. So thank you.
(I’m a licensed physician, specializing in holistic, preventative and regenerative medicine, and I also have a masters degree in traditional Chinese medicine, practicing for 30 years. I also do training seminars for colleagues and students. And I’m a writer/author so I can lean towards the dramatic at times!)
And in all fairness, watching a video of a six-year old girl with pigtails being ARRESTED, handcuffed, and told by a masked and armed ICE agent not to say anything and plead the 5th, was very disturbing!!!
Agree. And yes, GESTAPO. I remember during his first term when Trump was separating young children from their parents at the border and caging them. Then children were being moved to other locations. I was absolutely horrified by that! What happened to them? It still haunts me. I simply cannot understand such cruelty. Such brutality. In the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! 😩
and the problem is a hard pill for American's to swallow........to look in the mirror and listen to the real answer to mirror mirror on the wall, who is................ the answer is not pretty, and not the trite unreflected truths America has said and thought about itself since its beginning, over and over, generation after generation. This is a hard pill for all Americans to swallow. This was such an eloquent gaze into the mirror.......an ugly reflection with beautiful words...........there is hope in there.........can America truly be the land of the brave and free to find it...........or stay Idiot America, rotten America.
Yes. The one in the mirror. Hard pill to swallow indeed. We can't keep pointing our fingers. That's how this all started, thinking I'm better than you. We're all ugly guilty.
But David, I think there are changes…………people are waking up. How can they not when we see what ICE is doing, and the law being flouted……..it’s like the tearing of a potentially beautiful fabric. Despite the negatives seeming so unassailable we have to keep hoping…………and its world wide that somehow we have been duped……..while being paranoid and focused on hidden agendas in the places we thought or were let think they were happening…they have been insidiously slithering around under our noses. Bible believing America has a lot to answer for……………….so many parables and teachings of faith seem to mean nothing…………..they have stayed stories…..the good samaritan, the rich young ruler, the widows mite………..I look to my own blindness, my own racism………..self reflection, the real honest mirror kind…………..looking at the specks and planks in our own eyes, our own lacks of forgiveness, our own withholding of grace…………thanks for engaging David……
On the ABC (Australian broadcasting commission) tonight in Aus is a 4Corners report on how much the tangerine turd and his family of bludgers, are actually making since he's been back in office. Hope everyone here in Aus watches this.
This is the most honest telling of the story that has been begging to be told for years! Some times the truth hurts, but it needed to be said. brilliant writing! three cheers for those who haven't given up on us! Keep shouting out all that needs to be said! Brilliant!!!!!!
(Gretchen and Clark are staying with their grandparents, and they're not alone. They've got to kill the swamp monster who lives in a locked room upstairs before he eats them out of house and home.)
“Every monster has a story, a reason for its existence – understanding this can provide vital insight for its demise.”
“Every monster is vulnerable; it's up to you to find their Achilles' heel and strike with precision.”
“The first step towards killing a monster is to acknowledge its existence and refuse to let it dictate your life.”
“The key to killing a monster lies not in its physical defeat, but in understanding its weaknesses and exploiting them.”
“Monsters thrive on doubt and panic – deny them this pleasure and watch them crumble before you.”
EXACTLY! I said this about trump since his first term. He's the symptom, his dullards are the problem,. With him, and their ignorance and lack of curiosity and morals, are the curse of free will in a a democracy.
Trump is the cancerous hemorroid on ( if I were our writer I would be able to finish this appropriately but, easily, I am not. Fill in the blank)_______________
I agree Bill, but this article talks of the 3 fingers pointing back at us when we point at 'them'.........and I am not an American but have a chapter in my life that was there...........I am sorry to say it Bill, it's not his dullards.................and the point of this read is, America has been the dullards.................and that is not an easy pill for Americans to swallow...........America loves pills, but not this one!
That's the reflection in the mirror that needs to be the real one..........and until then, the rot will continue in America no matter which party you swing with..............America has never ever been really good about seeing the truth about itself..............right back to the equality of all men................just not slaves thang! or the brags of Boone, or the real Tom Sawyers and snake oil salesmen. America's roots were / are cancerous..........and if that pisses you off.............then look in the mirror some more.........
Extraordinary, Brilliant! I've never heard anyone put it more perfectly--
This statement of reality and purpose is the REAL Truth Social.
It's dark in here and essays like this provide the light at the end of the tunnel!
I agree. The truth couldn't be told any more eloquently.
ROT - 'Reign of Terror just came to me two days ago while replying in vid comments. Upon reading this brilliant essay. It may come to pass in future reflections, this era will be named to address what happened during this dire time.
Or ROT - Reign of Tyranny.
I've seen that photo of him before and still think he looks like he's had a stroke. It's the way his mouth is dragged down on his right side. j/s
Could also be Bell's palsy. (Also called: idiopathic facial paralysis!)
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/5457-bells-palsy
Or Lyme disease which causes all kinds of paralysis, and oddly, an inability to do math, at times for months!
I'm not looking for the best-case scenario, that is the problem with Democrats too ready to make excuses for bad behavior/outlooks. I'd rather assume the worst and work from there.
Well, it is obvious he has a problem with Math; we see that every day! 🤨
Meanwhile in Israel, he has become their God, they chant his name and boo down Bibi, Melania fresh out the spa by his side and Ivanka and Jarod standing on the diaz smiling.
The bedside book " Mein Kampf/" discarded for the moment , but we are still abusing and abducting the men and boys chained in Alligator camp forgotten and suddenly gone., the woman left by road side, child screaming and glass shattered.
The violence even as one shops ,where groceries now to expensive line the shelves and elsewhere the rotting food out in the fields where Americans will not tread.
Where at every low point an event happens to distract us and innocent young Men in jail forgotten or hidden accused of killing, but why was everybody so in cinque, that bullets were passed along and specials vans collected but not EMT ?
We stand here with only words and yet another text begging for money,NO, not again.
So guys stay in your comfy seats, talk about how we lost it all and wonder why not ONE MAN had the courage and strength to call us to fight for we were waiting....
I watched a short video of an armed ICE agent cuff a SIX YEAR OLD GIRL, hands behind her back, sobbing, separated from her mother, and forcing her into the back of a van!!!
In Chicago. In AMERICA!
Senseless brutality! Unacceptable. Shameful. Horrifying. Heartbreaking.
Make it stop!
But Merry, we don't make it stop, we learn that it's become the norm and then our never saturated enough brain craves for the next spike that will either cause despair or cause the thrill depending on which side you lean, nevertheless we all going down the same road, no one's getting off ,noone saying it's enough, we just keep walking on to see what the exit reveals....
I absolutely understand that. It was just a spontaneous response to my internal angst, as well as the collective anxiety most people are feeling during these tumultuous times. Obviously a fundamental part of trump’s strategy, his scheme to become a dictator, is to generate as much chaos, uncertainty and fear as possible, as quickly as possible. And I can always choose how to respond to every situation I’m going through.
I DO reject that we should accept it as the “norm” now. That can lead to complacency. Which I certainly am not.
But since no one on Substack knows anything about me (I prefer to remain anonymous) except by interpreting what I write, it’s natural for some to give me guidance. I get that. So thank you.
(I’m a licensed physician, specializing in holistic, preventative and regenerative medicine, and I also have a masters degree in traditional Chinese medicine, practicing for 30 years. I also do training seminars for colleagues and students. And I’m a writer/author so I can lean towards the dramatic at times!)
Thanks again!
'Merry, wasn't personal just a frustration ......
Thank you, again. Just clarifying.
And in all fairness, watching a video of a six-year old girl with pigtails being ARRESTED, handcuffed, and told by a masked and armed ICE agent not to say anything and plead the 5th, was very disturbing!!!
Makes you wander what exactly are these Gestapo doing to these children are the being used. As those other children in the Epstein files.
Agree. And yes, GESTAPO. I remember during his first term when Trump was separating young children from their parents at the border and caging them. Then children were being moved to other locations. I was absolutely horrified by that! What happened to them? It still haunts me. I simply cannot understand such cruelty. Such brutality. In the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! 😩
A poetic "MUST READ".
Love your work. Very well said. Still, you said it yourself, he is not the problem, only the symptom. We need to focus on the problem!
and the problem is a hard pill for American's to swallow........to look in the mirror and listen to the real answer to mirror mirror on the wall, who is................ the answer is not pretty, and not the trite unreflected truths America has said and thought about itself since its beginning, over and over, generation after generation. This is a hard pill for all Americans to swallow. This was such an eloquent gaze into the mirror.......an ugly reflection with beautiful words...........there is hope in there.........can America truly be the land of the brave and free to find it...........or stay Idiot America, rotten America.
Yes. The one in the mirror. Hard pill to swallow indeed. We can't keep pointing our fingers. That's how this all started, thinking I'm better than you. We're all ugly guilty.
But David, I think there are changes…………people are waking up. How can they not when we see what ICE is doing, and the law being flouted……..it’s like the tearing of a potentially beautiful fabric. Despite the negatives seeming so unassailable we have to keep hoping…………and its world wide that somehow we have been duped……..while being paranoid and focused on hidden agendas in the places we thought or were let think they were happening…they have been insidiously slithering around under our noses. Bible believing America has a lot to answer for……………….so many parables and teachings of faith seem to mean nothing…………..they have stayed stories…..the good samaritan, the rich young ruler, the widows mite………..I look to my own blindness, my own racism………..self reflection, the real honest mirror kind…………..looking at the specks and planks in our own eyes, our own lacks of forgiveness, our own withholding of grace…………thanks for engaging David……
From your lips to God's ears!
Ah, we were thinking along the same lines...https://substack.com/home/post/p-174989236
On the ABC (Australian broadcasting commission) tonight in Aus is a 4Corners report on how much the tangerine turd and his family of bludgers, are actually making since he's been back in office. Hope everyone here in Aus watches this.
Thanks for the tip.
This is the most honest telling of the story that has been begging to be told for years! Some times the truth hurts, but it needed to be said. brilliant writing! three cheers for those who haven't given up on us! Keep shouting out all that needs to be said! Brilliant!!!!!!
totally agree....every word and insight a gem.....
BRAVO! ANOTHER EXCELLENT ESSAY!
Quotes from How to Kill a Monster -
(Gretchen and Clark are staying with their grandparents, and they're not alone. They've got to kill the swamp monster who lives in a locked room upstairs before he eats them out of house and home.)
“Every monster has a story, a reason for its existence – understanding this can provide vital insight for its demise.”
“Every monster is vulnerable; it's up to you to find their Achilles' heel and strike with precision.”
“The first step towards killing a monster is to acknowledge its existence and refuse to let it dictate your life.”
“The key to killing a monster lies not in its physical defeat, but in understanding its weaknesses and exploiting them.”
“Monsters thrive on doubt and panic – deny them this pleasure and watch them crumble before you.”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125555.How_to_Kill_a_Monster
He is over the edge
One of your best essays. So true.
And the truth is painful.
EXACTLY! I said this about trump since his first term. He's the symptom, his dullards are the problem,. With him, and their ignorance and lack of curiosity and morals, are the curse of free will in a a democracy.
Trump is the cancerous hemorroid on ( if I were our writer I would be able to finish this appropriately but, easily, I am not. Fill in the blank)_______________
I agree Bill, but this article talks of the 3 fingers pointing back at us when we point at 'them'.........and I am not an American but have a chapter in my life that was there...........I am sorry to say it Bill, it's not his dullards.................and the point of this read is, America has been the dullards.................and that is not an easy pill for Americans to swallow...........America loves pills, but not this one!
That's the reflection in the mirror that needs to be the real one..........and until then, the rot will continue in America no matter which party you swing with..............America has never ever been really good about seeing the truth about itself..............right back to the equality of all men................just not slaves thang! or the brags of Boone, or the real Tom Sawyers and snake oil salesmen. America's roots were / are cancerous..........and if that pisses you off.............then look in the mirror some more.........
Wow! Well said, perfectly describes this horror we are experiencing.
BRILLIANT!