Wednesday, March 5, 2025

WTF is happening?

 A friend sent me a doctored tape of Macron speaking French in the Oval Office, with insulting subscripts in a phony English "translation" and Trump sitting there, grinning and befuddled. I responded to BR saying: 

"That’s funny – but not funny. Macron told him what Volodymyr Zelenskyy and others have, that Europe’s support is not a loan to Ukraine nor needs be re-paid, but Trump repeats his falsehood again and again. I am more emotional about these goings-on than I have ever been. Usually, I am analytic and put on a mask of rationality, but now I am deeply anxious and depressed.

"It’s all beyond belief, beyond acceptance that men will put their malign intent so openly on display. Where have gone pride and at least a pose of statesman-ness? Godfather as President, something off Francis Ford Coppola’s cutting room floor, surrounded by Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. Musk sophomorically waving a chain-saw about, dominating the President and Cabinet, not removing his hat in the White House, showing no deference to the office of President of the United States; arrogant 20-somethngs firing professional public servants who don’t work for them; Vance and Trump berating an invited guest and on television, no less; Trump parroting through-the-looking-glass claims of a Russian war criminal and child kidnapper; Trump calling out enemies in Congress by name, taunting Sen. Warren as “Pocahontas”; talking of “getting” Greenland and "taking" ownership of Gaza; insulting and castigating Canada, our most reliable neighbor and friend. It goes on and on. WTF?!?

"WTF is happening in, to, my country? My country: 'tis of thee, sweet land of Liberty . . . crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. True, we have never managed to fully live up to our ideals, not even coming close at times, but never before have we so blatantly besmirched them. Our representations of Liberty, a Native American atop the Capital and a Euro-American standing in New York harbor, are weeping."

 

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