make America great again

Today was inauguration day, year 2017 - the day America swore in its 45th president illegitimate, pussy-grabbing con man. Mrs. Betty Bowers (whom I adore) wrote a wonderful poem, quite profound in its observation, just after the election.  Today, it's worth repeating.

Indeed, America, you've jumped.  You also just shot yourself in the foot.  

I remember when Michelle Obama was ripped to shreds 
for not having her hand over her heart on Veterans Day...

A picture worth a thousand words - this presidency is a hoax, not legitimate and a travesty...

Speaking of foot shooting, I have a far darker analogy for our current election of America's first real dictator and it goes like this:

A farmer and his son are in the barn where the farmer keeps a shotgun propped against the door - in case any grizzly bears just come wandering in suddenly.  His son, a petulant child, walks over to the shotgun and touches it.  

"Son, don't you touch that shotgun.  Next thing I know, you'll shoot your foot clear off."

The boy says nothing and instead puts one hand under the the butt and the other under the barrel and lifts the shotgun from off the hay-dusted floor.

"Did you not hear me, boy? I said not to touch that gun.  Now put it down before you shoot your foot clear off."

The boy cocks the shotgun and aims it at his father.

"Put the gun down, now! This isn't some game, son. You'll get us both killed."

The boy smiles and pulls the trigger.

Too late, America.  The boy has the gun cocked and aimed.

Since our new crook dictator wants everyone to think he's so yugely, bigly popular, I'll just leave this here (2009 on the left and today on the right)...

I heard Trump's inaugural address was dismal, dark, authoritarian-ish and just strange.  I have no desire to ever listen to it.  He's not my president and never will be.  And as he and his behind-the-scenes gremlins begin their destruction of this country, it will in time be known that he's not this country's president.  It's coming.  

So far, the White House website has been scrubbed of any mention of climate change, healthcare or civil rights.  Citizens in this country who relied on the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) are about to learn why (Trump signed a very non-transparent executive order today pertaining to the ACA - hmmm, wonder what that could be?)  And the rest of us who cared about civil rights and worried over climate change are sure to learn the purpose for the purge of info too.  (Psst...Steve Bannon, y'all!)

This is just the beginning of the evil fuckery in this new era of nothing matters.  I believe we are in for a storm of calamity in this country unlike any of us alive have ever witnessed.  I believe there will be tremendous violence and loss of life.  But I'll stop short of predicting any major civil war or rapture.  In fact, today, while protesting next to 20-somethings on the campus at which I work, I had a breathtaking moment in which I felt a sudden tingling in my spirit of both hope and a fierceness I've not felt since I was their age.  They were bold and focused, engaged with each other, the rest of us, and the moment they were in.  

This incredibly qualified woman should have been sworn in today.  In an alternate reality, she was.  
In this parallel hell, she was again subjected to so much unwarranted hate from Trump's base.  
This makes me embarrassed to be American, to be honest...

This too makes me embarrassed of America. What a horrific country we've become that David Duke 
can be so open about the white supremacists in charge now...

Millennials are a new breed of passion.  They don't just let shit roll off of their shoulders.  Instead, they shovel it into compost heaps and laugh at you as they recycle it for the betterment of the environment.  They are smarter than I was in my 20's, more realistic, and infinitely more compassionate.  They've been labeled as PC-weakened and entitled when they are anything but.  Trust me on this...I work with them, have for over seven years.  They are the future.  And as I marched alongside them, chanting until my voice was hoarse, I realized that it is my duty to fight for them and with them.   It's the only way to ever make America great again.

For posterity's sake...