When I started this group I never thought it would be so hard. I thought I’d write a little, the other old farts would pitch in and that would be that.
But then, last month, I decided to take to the road and see some family and when I got back, I woke up one morning on the floor by the bed and spent three days in the hospital undergoing tests and observation, only to learn they really couldn’t find a reason for my nighttime fall.
So, here I am back after three weeks of not writing, not eating at Bert’s, not joining the old farts at the pub and Donald Trump is still president.
One of the things they asked me in the hospital was if I was under unusual stress. I had a simple answer.
“No more than anyone else as long as that sick crazy sumbitch is in the White House.” Being diplomatic no one answered back other than to say something like “I see.”
But, dammit! I come out of the hospital and the crazy sumbitch is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization, a place that historically actually created much of what we today consider civilization.
And then, of course, he surrendered. That’s what the cowardly man-child did. He blew shit up, killed women and children, trashed the world economy, made our country into a rogue, war-crime-committing nation ala Russia and then he surrendered.
Look, MAGA, your boy cut and run. He surrendered and left everything worse off than when he started. Why? Because he is crazy. I mean that clinically. I was talking with a friend who taught psych and the big university and he said he could think of about a dozen clinical diagnosis that would apply to Trump.
“He has collected a variety of mental illnesses inside one body in way you rarely see,” he told me.
OK. So why isn’t the vice-president and cabinet seeing it and invoking the 25th Amendment? The answer is they can see it but they were chosen because collectively they are set of spineless cowards who somehow feel a cabinet position makes their sorry asses into somebodies.
But, even if Trump does have 14 different kinds of mental illnesses, is there a part of him that is crazy like a fox? Here’s what I am getting at. Every time he gets out his yo-yo his family and everyone around him makes some serious coin. Trump creates crisis. Markets drop. Family and friends by stocks at the low point. T999rump backs off, markets rise and family and friends sell. Over and over again. Pure insider trading and corruption and no one in whatever the hell the Republican Party is today says a word.
This is where we are. We have a combination of craziness and corruption that has could destroy this country but take a lot of the world down with it. Donald Trump has turned the United States into a corrupt, unstable rogue nation and there’s not a damned thing that is going to be done about except for voting in November 2026 and again in 2028.
But even if Democrats take over Congress in 2026 we are going to have a madman in the White House for more than two years unless his craziness explodes his system and he falls over dead.
Yeh, doc, I’m stressed and maybe that’s why I fell down in the middle of the night. I don’t think I’m alone in that, not by a long shot.
Donald Trump is a madman supported by the stupid, the racist, the homophobic, the xenophobic, the sexist, the religious bigots and a mass of wealthy white folks who don’t much give a shit about the country or anything that’s not colored green and in their bank accounts.
Venting is the best way to prevent falls in the middle of the night.