Despite the government order to stay at home, I am still connected to the world via newspaper, wi-fi, streaming TV, Facebook, Twitter and cell phone.
WTF Moments
D. S. Mitchell
Staying Connected
Despite being on “stay home, stay safe” orders; I am still attached to the world via newspaper, cable television, Twitter, wi-fi and cell phone. Things are coming at me too fast and too furious for my liking. I am bobbing and weaving, when I should be writing, researching, petitioning and organizing.
Task Force
I watched the Trumpster conduct another overly long and contentious Coronavirus Task Force press briefing this afternoon. Trump, was arguing and fighting with the reporters. Insulting their race, their intent, and their talent. At one point, Trump pushed Dr. Fauci aside, telling a reporter to stop asking “the same question.” “He’s answered that question, fifteen times.”
The Question
A clever person once said, “elect a clown, expect a circus.”
The question reporters and the public keep asking is why is Trump touting the unapproved anti-malarial medication, hydroxycloroquine for coronavirus treatment? If these briefings were ever informative they have dissolved into what one reporter described as a “three-ring circus with Trump as the deranged ringmaster”. This is what happens when a narcissist takes over the government of a country.
Trump Circus
Watching the now daily Trump “circus” via television is like so many of those other WTF moments I’ve experienced during my life. I’ve thought how things, common things, deliver a “doesn’t that figure moment.” So, I decided that maybe, just for laughs, I should point out some of the those WTF moments. Here are a few that I came up with. I’m sure everyone has a list of their own.
Here’s Those WTF Moments:
- Having a bathroom so close to the living room that anybody sitting on my couch can hear my urine splashing in the toilet bowl.
- Knowing that I was doing 85 in a 70 mile per hour zone with no plausible or believable explanation.
- People whose only contribution to the political conversation is, “Lock her up.”
- Accidentally setting my alarm for 3 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.
- When the only thing in the fridge is a bottle of Perrier and two empty ice trays.
- Not finding toilet paper on three visits to the grocery store.
- Realizing that I am center brained.
- When some old lady yells at me from across the street, “Why don’t you get a job?”
- Finding out my significant other hid my birthday gift in the pocket of the old coat I packed up yesterday and sent to the Goodwill.
- A dog that only comes when it wants to.
- Having a strong physical attraction to John Heilemann and Steve Schmidt.
- Knowing that bullies are often financially successful, or sentenced to life plus 30 years.
- Trying to stop thinking about every word I said in that nasty argument.
- Realizing that I was in all black the last time I saw him, and all black again, today.
- When I start thinking about what I’ll have for lunch at 7 a.m.
- The last day of my vacation, getting grounded in Iceland and can’t return to the U.S. because the country has suspended flights from the UK.
- Knowing that “I don’t know,” is not an acceptable answer.
- Suddenly realizing who I am talking to on the phone, isn’t who I thought I was talking to.
- Saving 100’s of old decorating magazines, because I may decide to redecorate.
- Keeping a secret, only to find out that everybody else already knows the secret.
- Going to a movie made from a great book and after the showing wondering why someone wasted so much money to ruin something beautiful.
- Aware that serial murder guarantees instant fame.
- When Tonya Harding is the most famous person I’ve ever met.
- When my cell phone reception is so bad I have to hang out the dining room window to talk to my son fifteen miles away.
- Knowing that $20.00 won’t cover a 4 oz bottle of hand sanitizer.
Trump Crazy
My list of WTF moments are really just daily irritations and small injustices. Most are funny and a bit annoying, but not life threatening. I wish I could say the same about what I am hearing come out of the mouth of Donald Trump. I am convinced more every day, that he is the most dangerous president we have ever had.
RESIST, it is more important today that ever before.
Over the last two decades it has been China that has challenged the U.S. for world economic dominance. The world has seen a lot over the last couple years, as power shifts, both militarily and economically. A devastating trade war between the US and China has shaken up the accepted. With Brexit, the economic difficulties in Greece and Italy the European Union is showing signs of unraveling. There has been an ongoing shadow war among the Middle Eastern states, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Yemen, Syria and Iran. Additionally, economic polarization is rearing its ugly head among Latin American nations.
Mike Tyson: Responding to a question regarding his retirement plans to: “Fade into Bolivian, I guess.” Joe Theismann: “The term genius is inapplicable to anyone in this game. A genius is Norman Einstein.” Pedro Guerrero: About his relationship with the press, “Sometimes they write what I say, not what I mean.” Chuck Nevitt: On why he appeared nervous: “My sister is having a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an aunt or an uncle.” Yogi Berra: “It gets late early out here.” George Foreman: “There’s more to boxing than hitting. There’s not getting hit, for instance.” George Roberts: “I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.” Tug McGraw: “Always root for the winner. That way you won’t be disappointed.” Don King: He (Chavez) speaks English, Spanish, and he’s bilingual.” Dizzy Dean: The doctor X-rayed my head and found nothing. Bill Cowher: On whether the Steelers bent NFL regulations: “We’re not attempting to circumcise the rules.”
Another statement that has made it’s way into the political parlance is “anyone would be better.” A notion that was particularly popular in terms of Richard M. Nixon and George H.W. Bush. Though rarely has this been so literally the case in terms of the American presidency as it is this election cycle. Despite the continued protection of Donald Trump by the Republican party, a level of loyalty that looks like royal fealty, the current president has pushed politics past party lines. It is no longer about Republican or Democrat, not that it ever was, Trump changing parties more times than wives. It is about what is best for the country, which is getting anyone, but Trump into the Oval Office.
