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With the abominable showman’s cheering on of his faithful Branch Covidians, it is small wonder that their lemming instincts have been activated to such an alarming degree. And now, with the news that the vain, profane and insane tweeter/cheater is advising people to inject disinfectants to protect themselves from the virus, presumably they will enjoy a soft landing following their plunge over the cliff. What this idiot will be advocating next is anyone’s guess: Perhaps telling people they should coat their nostrils with shellac? Makes about as much sense as injecting disinfectant does! It begs the question ‘how many bad ideas can fit in one press conference turned campaign rally?’

Where are the men in white suits when we need them?

Between that and House majority leader Mc Connell’s advice to cash-strapped states to file bankruptcy, it’s beginning to feel like we’re all living in an asylum, a demented Disneyland of dire and directionless dumbfuckery. I’ve walked out on movies that, bad as they were, never reached the heights of revolting ridiculousness attained by this seemingly unending stink-pit staring us all in our faces when we waken each day. If only upon awakening we could discover it was all nothing but a bad dream, a hideous nightmare the unmasking of which would be cause for celebration like none other.

From an abstract point of view, the entire trump phenomenon may appear interesting—not in the way ordinary things are interesting, but more like how a film documenting the atrocities of the Nazi regime might initially appear interesting until one remembers it’s real and not just some made-up story designed to capitalize on our predilection for finding interest in the misfortunes of other people.

This man, who, by fate or folly bumbled his way into a position parsecs beyond his depth, appears to possess a preternatural ability to cast spells on the unprepared, the likes of which the world has not witnessed since the fall of Adolf Hitler. One wonders how long it would have taken the German people to disavow themselves of their fuhrer’s mismanagement of their affairs had the Allied invasion not relieved them of that responsibility.

We now find ourselves, tragically, in a similar situation, entrapped by a fanatical minority determined to dominate at all costs. Thanks to the Republican stewardship of Senator McConnell, the country has been  subjected to the whims of a snake-oil salesman, a man whose grip on reality, already tenuous due to his pathological insecurity and narcissistic outlook on life, appears to be loosening daily for all the world, save his obedient lapdogs and the lemmings whose support them, to see. The captains of industry whose whispered urgings for him reopen the country sooner than sanity would indicate are reminiscent of the Henry Fords and Charles Lindberghs of the 1930s, and just as dangerous to our country, our welfare and our survival. Their actions in this regard perfectly illustrate the fatally flawed nature of unrestrained capitalism.

The way out, obviously, is for saner minds to prevail. Of utmost importance is that we act as one and cast out the offensively objectionable orangutrump in the general election. Failing that, we must hope for some miracle to occur that cuts through the fog of lust-for-power enveloping Mitch McConnell’s brain and prompts him to ponder whether his prolonged patronage for the unmasked bandit will ultimately prove profitable in promoting his push to profit from the prosecution of his primary purpose,  to treat the Constitution as if it were naught but an impediment he must overcome in his drive to prevail no matter what, to come out on top and to further enrich his coffers regardless of cost as he sells a little more of his tattered and miserable soul to the devil with each awful “deal” he makes.

If that proves nothing but the stuff of dreams, our only alternative is to pray his complicity costs him his bid for reelection come November.

The fate of those in Hitler’s inner circle are well known. It is time for people in positions of power who have cast their lot with trump to reflect deeply on how things turned out for the likes of Josef Goebbels, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler, and the others who worked beside them in service to their fuhrer. While it’s doubtful they are capable of becoming cognizant of the danger their continued allegiance to this corrupt madman poses to life, country and the general order of things, one would hope they just might be capable of envisioning the personal price they will each pay for their continued obeisance when their day arrives.

Either way, it is incumbent that we, the people, do our part and vote. The Allies are no longer here to intervene and right things if we sit back silently and allow to worst to occur.

Tim Konrad

2020.04.24