Trump's Contract On Healthcare

Apparently Don Donald ain't too happy wit what's goin' on wit da health bill. So he put a hit out on the ACA.

Yeah, the Don wants it whacked. You got it, no more Obamacare. The Don wants it whacked right away. Kill da motherf**ker. 

What about all doze people?

The Don says ya can figga what ta do after dat. Just, hit it.

I mean we're talkin' millions?

F**k em and f**k you. Kill Obamacare! Kill it now!

Holy Moly!

Trump Is The Symptom

Donald Trump is not competent to be president of anything, much less the United States. He is an aberration, not a statesman. His ignorance is mind numbing. His presentations are a monumental embarrassment.

I could go on, but I think you get what I am saying.

With Trump in the presidency, our country is at risk. Our national security and our domestic well being are in jeopardy.

So, Trump is not the problem. Trump is a symptom of a much more dangerous problem. If Trump is removed, the problem will not go away.

The problem we face is threefold. First, the GOP is no longer a real political party. I'm not sure what it is, but I know what it isn't. It isn't a political party as much as it is a marketing organization.

Second, fake news organizations have gone mainstream. Somehow, demented commentators have become legitimized and normalized.

Last, but by no means least, is the fact that at least 35% of our voting citizenry has gone "bat shit crazy". Yep, 35% of the voters are out of their f**king minds. I'm not talking neurotics, I'm talking full blown, DayGlo lunatics.

Whether this lunacy is a plague or the unfortunate results of an educational system gone awry, is up for debate. It could also be the result of foreign subversion over the course of decades or religious indoctrination over the course of a lifetime.

Whatever the cause, the problem is insanity.

You know why zombie entertainment is so popular? I venture to say it's because it represents what our true problem is. Zombies eat brains. They are mindless beasts that eat at the source of intelligence and thought.

We are the zombies folks - not all of us - not even a majority of us. Just 35% of our active voters. Is that number continuing to grow?

Holy Moly!

What Would Trump Have To Do? - Grandpa Puts It In Perspective - Grandpa Is Italian And Knows About Priorities

A friend of mine was out to dinner with his Grandpa and his Grandpa's next door neighbor. The next door neighbor is a bigly Trump supporter.

My friend's grandpa is one of my oldest friends. He was the best man at our civil ceremony when Kathy and I got married the first time. He's Italian in origin, as am I.

Our civil wedding was earlier than we had planned because Kathy did not have health insurance and needed an operation to remove a basal cell carcinoma that was growing on her back shoulder. I had a state job and good insurance.

We needed a witness and I called Frank who was in the middle of pouring concrete. Frank is a mason. He's always been a hard worker. He was also a Special Education teacher at the time.

Frank dropped everything and showed up in work clothes and boots covered in concrete. My "best man" stood there in concrete as a testament to our marriage. Marriage needs a good foundation and Frank brought the concrete to the wedding.

So Nick was eating dinner with Frank and next door neighbor Joe. Joe was going on about Trump and Nick, having recently turned 22 and graduated college and starting law school in September, was challenging Joe and doing a good job on the issues - I said he was going to law school.

Joe was all over the place. When confronted on one absurdity with a pesky fact, he immediately jumped to another absurdity. This went on for a bit and then Frank, who, being Italian, had first finished his dinner, leaned into the table and looked Joe in the eye and asked, "what would Trump have to do for you to say anything negative about him?"

Mind you, all this was taking place in a crowded family restaurant and as Nick and Joe started talking Trump, the restaurant got quieter and quieter. I suspect that being in New York on Long Island in Suffolk County, the restaurant was pretty much evenly divided between Trump supporters and Trump non-supporters.

Nick said when Frank asked his question you could hear a pin drop. Joe started his response by saying something about Hillary Clinton. Frank stopped him and said this has nothing to do with politics. He said his question was simple and he repeated it. "What would Trump have to do for you to say anything negative about him?"

Joe was reduced to stammering and that effectively ended the discussion. I like this story. I like it for several reasons, not the least of which was an old (yes you are old now Frank, yes I know you still practice masonry) educated, hard working, stubborn, Italian man who had evolved through the 60s managed to put it all in perspective by asking a Trump supporter a simple question, for which, apparently, there was no answer.

So next time you are confronted by a Trump supporter who is babbling, ask him/her a simple, non-political question. Ask him/her, "What would Trump have to do for you to say anything negative about him?"

Holy Moly!

The Tower Of Trump

I was resolved to update this blog on a daily basis. I was inspired to do so by the Spirit. I was overwhelmed by the enormity of the bulls**t related to Donald Trump and his administration.

Trump Tower has supplanted The Tower of  Babel as the mother of all confusion. It's radiating cognitive dissonance, confusion and disorientation. Anyone trying to make sense of Trump and his minions is immediately sent raving into the night.

Trump's lies and distortions are world renowned. The inconsistencies he alone generates are monumental. When you add to that the inconsistencies and distortions and misinformation coming from his appointees, you raise the level of confusion to a truly galactic level - a galactic cacophony.

Last week proved to be my undoing. Information related to the Russian connections was coming in fast and furious. It was like tide coming in at the Bay of Fundi. Congressman Nunes alone sent things into orbit.

When I sat down to chronicle the Russian fiasco, news of Neil Gorsuch's confirmation process started flooding the airwaves. As I turned to focus on that, the bombing of the Syrian airbase swept everything away and left us all trying to make sense of the contradictory and ridiculous things Trump, Tillerson and Haley were asserting.

Good luck following any of that. China and North Korea photo-bombed the photo ops.

Today, newscasters were talking about the "Trump Doctrine". Trump Doctrine? Please! Did you see Trump's announcement in regard to bombing Syria? Luca Brasi did better articulating his gift to Don Corleone's daughter in the Godfather than Trump did explaining Syria.

The Godfather - Luca Brasi - YouTube

Before this is over, we may need Trump Busters to contain this mess.

Holy Moly!

Flattery Wlll Get You Everywhere - So Will Blackmail

It was very disconcerting watching Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, conducting a joint press conference with Dundering Don earlier today. Benny all but kissed Donny. His praise was so effusive - the bulls**t was piling up so fast and so high it forced people to stand on chairs.

Clearly the Prime Minister of Israel wants something very badly. He wants it so badly that he is willing to disgrace himself to attain it. What could that be?

Putin wants something too. Where Vlad uses blackmail and intimidation, Benny regurgitates platitudes and praises the naked emperor's transparent clothing. Clearly, there are many ways to skin a cat, or a guy wearing a cat on his head.

I think Vlad wants Europe destabilized and NATO neutralized. I think Benny wants us to start intervening militarily in the Middle East - we could take out Iran for starters.

International politics has always been fraught with duplicity and intrigue. What's new here is the relative ease, the shameless transparency that is being used by some foreign leaders.

Let's hope the impeachment comes sooner as opposed to later.

Holy Moly!

Kellyanne Is The Woman In The Ring - Don't Watch Her!

"The Ring" first appeared in theaters in 2002. It was a supernatural horror flick about a cursed videotape. If you watched the videotape, you died. The video was of a weird woman climbing out or a well and coming toward the screen.

What was farfetched entertainment then, may be a national security threat now. Kellyanne Conway may be the contemporary version of this horror story. If you watch Kellyanne being interviewed by the press, you won't die. If you voted for Trump and see Kellyanne, you may start talking like her and responding to others as she does in her interviews.

Yesterday, Kellyanne explained how the Trump team uses "alternative facts". The team not only uses these "alternative facts", it uses them to refute actual facts. In an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet The Press, Kellyanne went beyond her normal filibustering and when confronted by a persistent Todd, she told us all about "alternative facts".

To his credit, Todd made a valiant effort to get Kellyanne to answer a simple question and when she finally did, he almost seemed speechless. Where others might have said, "You mean lies.", Todd chose to label what she was saying as "falsehoods".

Chuck is not alone in tolerating Kellyanne's now standard filibuster responses to questions. Nobody seems to be willing to call her up short and tell her to either cut it out and answer the question or stop her filibuster before it mesmerizes the audience and disorients everyone who hears it.

Listening to Kellyanne's responses is like listening to the Siren's Song. If you are listening to her answer a question while you are driving a vehicle, you run the risk of crashing into something, just like the sailors in Greek Mythology came to ruin on the rocks.

What we now know, thanks to Chuck's persistence, is that it is possible to stop the filibuster, but he has not shown us how to deal with what follows - the "alternative facts" gambit.

Personally, I would suggest throwing a pail of water on her like Dorothy did to the Wicked Witch of the West in the "Wizard Of Oz". You should throw the water on her as soon as she starts her filibuster. An "alternative method" would be to drop a house on her. Dropping a house on the Wicked Witch of the East was also a very affective method of neutralizing a witch.

The failure of the press to either dose Kellyanne with water or drop a house on her has led to the security threat we are now facing. When viewers see Kellyanne doing an interview they are cursed. They start emulating her in public discourse on Facebook, social media and blogs. Kellyanne is "The Ring" actualized.

One Kellyanne has proved too much for our entire news media. Millions of infected Kellyanne sycophants is like a nuclear reactor meltdown. Remember Chernobyl? Remember "The China Syndrome"?

Holy Moly!

The Church of the Holy Moly

I went to sleep before a winner was declared in the 2016 election for President of the United States. It sure looked like Donald Trump was going to win the election, but no one was saying that on any of the news channels I kept turning to. I even did my own research on the internet and concluded that Donald Trump could not help but win, but I was at odds with all of the pros calling the race. I did the only thing that made sense under the circumstances. I went to bed.

When I awoke on November 9^th, I turned on the TV and there was no definitive answer as to who had won. I turned to the internet. Looking at the raw data for each state, I realized I was seeing clearly what everybody else was having a problem accepting. Donald Trump had won the election. Donald Trump would be our next President.

It was then and there, sitting at my desk staring at my computer, that I realized I was having a spiritual moment. The Spirit clearly had chosen me to bear witness to the truth of what had just transpired and what was about to happen. I call it my Holy Moly moment.

Perhaps Saul had such a moment when he woke up after having been struck down from his horse and blinded for 3 days – when he became Paul and began his preaching as an Apostle of Christ.

Unlike Paul, I was not seeing clearly after having been blinded. I was seeing clearly from the get-go after everybody else had been blinded on July 19^th, the day Donald Trump officially became the Republican presidential candidate.

For months I had been saying to anyone who would listen that if Donald Trump was on the ballot he could win. I said that in the face of all the assurances I was getting from everyone, assurances that Donald Trump could not possibly win. I was written off as a worry-wart.

I cannot tell you why things happened as they did. I strongly suspect Kokopelli or Loki or both had a hand in this. Regardless of why, it was clear that I was chosen by the Spirit to bear witness to everything. It was not my sight that had failed.

So here I am. I am the prophet for the new Church of the Holy Moly. I am the one who was chosen to help you see. It just makes sense to me to start my ministry at the start of a new year – the Year of Trump.

Hold onto your hats, we are in for a wild ride!

Holy Moly!