One day, when John Wayne was filming “The Quiet Man” in Ireland, he borrowed a horse to ride into town during a break in the filming so as to visit the local pub. When he finished his drink and went outside, the horse was gone. Tough guy Wayne stormed back into the bar and declared, “if that horse is not back here in 10 minutes the same thing will happen that happened in 1928.”
“What happened in 1928?” one of the customers asked.
Wayne replied, “I walked home.”
Similarly, our pseudo-macho president tells Putin that he needs to call a cease-fire in Ukraine before peace talks can begin. “Or else.”
Or else what? Or else Trump will be “very unhappy.” I am sure that Vladimir is quaking in his boots at the prospect of Trump going. “Boo-hoo.”
So Putin says, “Okay, we will have a cease-fire as soon as Zelensky hands half of Ukraine over to us.” (And the rest of it later.)
Meanwhile, Trump says he doesn’t know “who is at fault” in Ukraine and, anyway, “it takes two to tango.” Yes, one to get bombed and murdered, and the other to bomb and murder.
While this theater of the absurd is playing out, we are slow walking defensive weapons to Ukraine to give Putin the maximum opportunity to wreak destruction on their civilian buildings and population. This scenario is so absurd, and Tump’s empowerment of Putin so clear that you could make a comedy movie about them as best buddies working at cross purposes while professing to be after the same goal. You know, a darker version of those “On the Road” movies with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.
At their recent meeting, that will determine the new world order and signals the end of the “American Century,” I am sure Putin and his Chinese counterpart shared many drinks and laughs over their useful fool, a tagalong leading from the rear, who is not only handing Ukraine over to them but the rest of the world to boot.
Isn’t it mind-boggling that Trump and his allies view the immigration of peaceful productive people into our country as the greater threat against which they must prioritize their policies, while they continue to empower our true enemies by decimating every positive aspect of our political system and the federal departments that have been responsible for maintaining them? This, while they continue to impose financial ruin on our nation and make a mockery of the balance of powers and the powers of the courts.
And is it not mind boggling that in the face of all this, all this which should be so obvious, more than half of Americans continue to support Trump and his stooges? Even as they get fleeced of rights, protections and benefits.
It has been said a nation gets the government it deserves. If this evil, blundering government is what America deserves, doesn’t it make you wonder just how horrible the sins of our nation have been? I’ve written at length on many of these sins and see no need to be repetitive here. They soon will disappear from the history books anyway.
Nor, as I’ve said many times in the past, is it of any use to invoke God’s blessings upon this nation when, clearly, if He has anything to do with what is going on, He has rejected that appeal in every imaginable way?
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