Small Town Therapist on Frustration

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" Did you hear the one about the self help group for compulsive talkers? It's called On and On Anon."   Anon

"When there's nothing more to be said, he'll still say it." Anon

There is an enormous frustration for most rational people in this country. Against our efforts to block out the hideous drone from our ex-president, he is droning on and on. It's all over the news and I for one am crying "mercy"! He is not news if he is repetitive about being hunted for crimes he committed and then supposedly persecuted. 

Excuse me isn't he the one who conned, abused, and cheated throughout his entire adulthood? Isn't he the one who is responsible for more than six bankruptcies and stiffing all the people to whom he owed money.  Enough already can't we convict him and put us all out this misery. Let's skip ahead and turn the old tired page.

Currently, important life saving legislations are stalled in Congress to a ridiculous degree. In essence we are being held hostage to ineffectual politicians. Are there profiles on the good legislatures who actually want action and bills approved on worthy subjects?  For example, where is the is reasonable legislation on guns even when the ex president has been shot at. (We, the U.S., have more carnage than any other first world nation.) The carnage, by the way, includes little children, loved ones and family members. Isn't this too a 'right to life' issue? Please do personalize this. Instead, and insanely, there is "open carry" of guns allowed in several states and gosh, what do you suppose that leads to?  Thoughts and prayers! For years and years there's never been a reasonable action to stop the violence. Truly this is a national disgrace. Our ex-president in the last year appeared before the NRA insisting that if he is elected the gun laws would be weakened, not strengthened. Think people.

The only "punishment" that I can deem appropriate for our ridiculously slow House and Senate is slow driving fines. Like penalizing slow drivers on the freeway, why not give the legislature a deadline (horrible pun). If they don't reach a solution such as eliminating the open carry laws and requiring background checks, there will be a hefty monetary penalty. See, if I were queen...

Instead a portion of our county listens to a man who's becoming more and more unhinged, who's morals are questionable at best, who has conned his way to financial gain and regularly urges his poor deluded followers to give, give, money to that man.

To those of us who voted against him in 2016, we  suffered and witnessed the extraordinary near demise of democracy and lie after lie after lie from him and his administration. Now he's selling shoes, hawking trading cards, Bibles! and basically bilking the vulnerable with his pity party. The pity is his disgraceful narcissism. It's also unbelievable and a crying shame that people choose to believe him as being a misunderstood martyr. This has all the markings of a cult. BTW, the Russian government is thrilled.

I wish the press would stop being so delicate and would please report verbatim the nonsense the ex president spouts for what it is. He's obviously failing mentally (even though he continually gives himself compliments) and the ridiculousness must be reported.  Only heavily edited of his mutterings are reported. If you have the stomach for it, or tune into the talk show hosts, you'll hear about the constant, repetitive nonsense from this disgraced ex president. It's really funny but not so much if there wasn't a very serious danger of him being re elected. He's so longwinded and boring people are leaving his poorly attended rallies early.  His latest claim to fame is he was voted the "worst president we have ever had" by historians. Dead last. Loser.

Months ago in a "news conference" where he was supposed to share his reaction to the death of Alexei Navalny, in his usual fashion, he declared that he was a victim of the court system. This was spouted as though that was pertinent to the death of a truly great, brave man fighting for democracy in Russia.  The ex president's speech was not worthy of any further discussion. He is neither note worthy or admirable.

First they took our rights.          Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale.

the sun is setting on the loser

I'm very confident that Kamala Harris/Tim Walz will win the popular vote, it's the stupid electoral college that could doom us all. Send pleas to anyone you know who could influence any of their family and friends in the pivotal red states. Remember the open line of the Handmaid's Tale. Vote and get active!

susansmagicfeather 2024