You're sound asleep in your rented room, tired from a long day of work, two cops kick open the door and demand to know if you have any weapons. You're startled, you mutter, "Huh, ah right here." You reach for your ID, your wallet.
All hell breaks loose, the two cops start shooting, you're hit 16 times. You spend the next year in the hospital, most of that year you breathe through a tube. You have to learn to walk again and because of your injuries, your right hand doesn't work anymore and your job as a refrigeration mechanic is over. You also live a life of constant pain. That's what happened to Justin Theoharis.
Theoharis just happened to rent a room from a man whose son had violated parole and was arrested just before the cops broke into his room and opened fire.
It took years, but King County, Washington settled with him for 5.5 million dollars and somehow ruled the shooting was justified.
The president* held a press conference today announcing that he is declaring a "National Emergency" to get funding for his god damn wall. It's bullshit, he knows it, the American people know it. This emergency is such a dire situation that after the press conference he flew off to Mar-a-Lago to play golf.
In addition to declaring the National Emergency, trump said President Abe of Japan was nominating him for a Nobel Peace Prize. Abe hasn't commented.
He also said that President Obama told him he was "close to declaring war" on North Korea. President Obama hasn't commented., Personally I think Obama should call a press conference and call trump out.
Imagine if you had been in a coma since 2015 and woke up today in fine shape, you turn on television and saw this unhinged presidential* press conference, you'd stroke the fuck out.
By the way, during today's press conference, trump literally did a bad Chinese accent when he brought up a conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Literally a sing song, "flied lice" accent.
Earlier this week we got a one page note on the results of the presidents* yearly physical. The last physical President George W. Bush had as president was close to 50 pages long and highly detailed, so were the physicals of President Obama. trumps was one page. No test results. Later in the week, the doctor added that trump had gained 6 pounds, putting him at 243 since his last check slipping him into the obese category On a personal note, I'm an inch shorter than trump and when I was fat as a pig I weighed in at 237, I looked half as big as the president* does. That and I didn't need a golf cart to haul my fat ass around.
Patriots center David Andrews (number 60) is an inch taller than trump and weighs 300 pounds. Sure he's younger and in shape, but get real...
I read a lot this week, it's been raining in SoCal, making Albert Hammond a bald faced liar. I reread Carrie Fisher's books. I like them, she was funny as hell about herself, her troubles and about life in general. She said of the cast and crew of the first Star Wars film. "Everyone believed in the movie, except George Lucas" She also said, her step dad Harry Karl, didn't say much, but he farted all the time.
Cakes and I had a nice Valentine's Day dinner, shared a bottle of wine. However we went to bed so early I work up at 3:58 this morning and have been up ever since. I need a nap.
America could be a Better Country after Donald Trump. Three things for sure. Young people are engaged. Women are engaged and running for Office. The Republican Party will go through a Reformation. In other words. America will 'Reboot'. Now having said that....The Democrats will, likely as usual, fuck it up as they always have since FDR....and I include Obama. He had an opportunity to send Bankers to Jail and expose The Evangelicals proselytizing in Iraq. Now having said THAT....I can't think of a Politician who would have done a better job of Leading The Recovery in 2008. But oh how The Democrats Blew it in 2010. That The Republican Party retained so much Power after screwing up 9/11, deregulating Wall Street and not enforcing Regulations that might have prevented The Gulf Oil Spill.....makes me think that, as with the Nixon aftermath, The Republicans could still pull another 'rabbit out of the hat'.
ReplyDeleteI like your post valentine eclectic stream.
ReplyDeleteAs for the president* his future is assured. He will be the most pilloried, joked about, humiliated and disparaged man to hold the office.
He may have his "core" but they will be remembered as fanatics, susceptible to manipulation and true believers in a man who will be remembered as perhaps the most infamous liar in history.
He and his followers will be recalled as architects of the decline of American superiority and advocates of an hysterical xenophobia, racism and destructive hatred.
He is a pain in the ass in the now and terribly dangerous. At best he is a russian stooge and is possibly a man who sold out his nation for his own personal gain. He is destructive and dangerously stupid. But in the long arc of history his karma will be a bitch! His reputation will be as the worst.
History will vilify him and he will be one of humanity's greatest jokes.
All in time. In the short run perhaps patriots will treat him as a traitor.
My own hope is that Melania does a double Lorena Bobbitt on him, with the second organ being his tongue. That seems like justice to me.