The Gulf of Naha

The Maga president had been out of the White House fighting criminal lawsuits and the prospect of prison. His 2024 presidential victory assured that the Orange Messiah had redeemed himself in the faith of Religious Right. It was not a landslide. Only 58% of the eligible voters participated in the electoral process. Trump received 28% on the actual vote. His Democratic rival lost by 1,500,000 votes. Roughly the combined population of of North and South Dakota. North Dakota is one of the two states to which I have not been. Kentucky is the other. Both came out for Trump in a big way.

Judging from his first month in office Trump had spent the last four years making lists and his slurry of executive orders has revealed the depth and breadth of his spleen. No one or thing is safe and last week he forced the US Government and Google to erase the Gulf of Mexico from existence. That body of water had been so-named since the Conquest. Almost five hundred years. Poof. Gone. Wikipedia's search engine still responds in the old fashioned way, but it wasn't always called the Gulf of Mexico.

In the Aztec religion, the gulf was called Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl, or "House of Chalchiuhtlicue", the deity of the seas. The Maya call it Naha. The big water. Believing that the sea and sky merged beyond the horizon, they called the seas Ilhuicaatl, meaning "sky water. The Aztecs were landlocked, the Mayans on the sea. I go with The Gulf of Naha. I have tried to annunciate the Nahuatl version and Naha is much easier. Fuck Trump.

Another Day Another Massacre

After the defeat of the Arab forces in 1948, almost a million Palestinian Arabs fled their houses, villages, and cities in fear of the conquering Israelis. This exodus was a trail of tears. The Palestinians called the tragedy Nakba.

The victors showed no mercy during the ethnic cleansing of the region.

The refugees never were allowed to go home.

This week tens of thousands of protestors gathered in Gaza to protest the injustice.

The IDF or Israeli Defense Force responded by shooting live rounds into the crowds.

Hundreds have been killed by the IDF hiding behind dirt berms.

Safe from harm.

They shoot men.

They shoot women.

They shoot the press.

And they kill children.

like the Nazis of Babi Yar.

Meanwhile the Trump regime celebrates the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

Tanks.

Versus a boy throwing a stone.

Shame.

How Far From Now

On November 8, 2016 I was sitting at the bar at the Barnacle in Marblehead. The TV was showing the election results. The initial reports looked good for Hillary Clinton, however CNN swiftly charted the collapse of democracy as old Democratic stronghold in the Midwest fell into Trump's electoral count. By dawn victory was declared by the reality TV star and America was firmly in the hands of the GOP, despite Bill Clinton's wife having spent over $700 million on her campaign, nearly $600 million on political hacks.

Trump's motto MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN had resonated with the voters from the religious right to the Hassidim community and white suburbs threatened by equality and fearful of the War on Terror.

I walked away from the Barnacle, thinking, "We are so fucked."

In the morning my beloved Aunt Sally and Uncle Russ admitted that they thought the same, although they were too polite to use bad language, but we walked up to Fort Sewell where the view only changed with the light.

In the following weeks I scoured the results in suspect congressional districts without finding a blaring example of fraud other than the traditional suppression of black voters throughout the USA.

Turkey day came and went without incident.

We knew nothing was right and nothing stayed right for the following four years.

Trump was evil.

My friends believed in their god/king. I stopped speaking to most of them.

Separation of children of illegal immigrants, travel bans against Muslims, pardons of white-collar criminals, praising Putin and the North Korean dictator, anti-marijuana policies, attempts to repeal health care, tax cuts for the rich, deregulation of environmental protection, the Trump Wall of Mexico, attacks on Yemen, condoning white supremacists and terror against African-Americans, threats against Iran, support for fundamentalist terror of Saudi Arabia, Covid rejection ad nauseum delighted the Trumpards.

But Trump wasn't really American.

To him BLM was evil.

Defund the police was evil.

Old motherfuckers like me remember history.

2017

Trump paid $750 in income tax.

He scared the Germans.

2019. He practiced pardons.

2020. He lost to Joe Biden by seven million votes, but declared the election results were changed by theft.

His followers believed his claims and his legal teams attack everyone without success.

He was a loser, yet called on his followers to reject the truth.

On January 6, 2021 they attacked the Capitol Building, where the Senate and Congress were completing the tally for the Electoral Congress.

Chaos.

Mayhem.

Death.

And still the GOP called for fraud investigation.

Fuck them and the pigs they rode.

Because Gettysburg proved one thing to these scum.

"Fredericksburg. Frederickburg."

One defeat does not mean victory.

ps Fuck 12.

Fuck Jimmy Kimmel

The White House was designed by James Hoban in 1792 at the behest of George Washington. The Father of the Nation never resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the West Wing was split between residential rooms and working offices until William Howard Taft commissioned Nathan C. Wyeth to designed an Oval Office exuding the power and glory of the United States.

Most presidents have met with other heads of state, powerful politicians, and friendly supporters in the Oval Office.

Several have spoken to the nation at times of crisis from behind the HMS Resolute desk, however this past week FDTrump held a press conference in another executivespace without windows, a crappy astroturf rug, and a tiny desk. The late-night pundits roasted Trump about this small desk, yet the same desk has been used by GW Bush and Bill Clinton without any comment from the late-night chucklemeisters.

Jimmy Kimmel had a great laugh over 'a small desk, small hands' quip, but four years ago the sell-out ha-haed with Trump during the 2016 for cheap entertainment and showered the pseudo-billionaire with free airtime. The Jimmy Kimmel Show had such great ratings for no money.

A complete and utter piece of Josef Goebbels shit.

Being a hypocrite is only acceptable if you remain a hypocrite without ever mounting the higher moral ground.

ps Fuck Trump.

And Now A Heat Wave

The sun rose today and burned off the morning overcast. The temperature swiftly climbed from 80 F to 93 F by midday. I thought about traveling to Rockaway Beach, but I'm still nursing the aches and pains from of a bicycle crash. Tomorrow I need to go to the Diamond District and the weather services are warning that the mercury with a thermometer will hit 98 by the afternoon.

2020 has been tough on the world.

The Covid Virus spread across the world.

The police have killed numerous innocent African Americans without any justice for the victims.

Donald Trump has instigated a race war to bolster his KKK/Nazi/Christian support and threatened to ignore his losing the November presidential election.

Thankfully the AC is defending this tenement from the sweltering heat and I am drinking a glass of ice-chilled Peach Wine.

I thought it was Rose wine.

Opps.

On a scale from 0-10 this tragedy is a .585 and if I'm lucky, then that's as bad as it will get today.

Tomorrow?

Tomorrow is a story yet to be lived as are the final six hours of today.

Sun set.

Sun rise.

Trumpards Trust Pedophiles

It is impossible to speak reason with Trumpards.

They refuse to recognize the evil of the God-President.

He is not a traitor.

It is smarter than the rest of us.

Covids is a scam.

Black Lives Matter is an anarchist organization dedicated to destroying the centuries-old rule of the White Race over the World.

His penis isn't one-inch long.

He is not a pedophile.

He is a genius.

Trumpards pray for Trump in the same breath as the Nailed God.

"I can shot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it," the Nailed God's cousin stated before his election.

Not if I'm around.

I'm 68, but I can run down that fat shit and kick his ass back to Trump Tower.

Fuck all Trumpards.

No Safe Place For The Rich

This past May 29 demonstrators surrounded the White House. The 12 or the police were overwhelmed by the protests and Donald Trump left the Oval Office for the subterranean presidential bunker.

Trump reported to the Media that the chicken-shit speed freak had descended to inspect the underground shelter for a tiny amount of time. Attorney General Barr contradicted his boss' narrative by saying that the Secret Service advised the POTUS to seek safety on the bowels of the Earth. Trump hid there for over an hour. Supposedly his wife and son accompanied the traitor, but I doubt it. The KKK hero only cares for himself and returned to the surface once the Secret Service gave to the all-clear signal.

Onme hour is tiny time for the President-God.

This incident coupled with the young demonstrators' anti-rich rhetoric has forced the wealthy to consider similar refuges and a security company has proposed converting Kansas missile silos into luxury Doomsday havens, leaving the treasures stolen from the masses to the people.

I say the sooner they are inside the better and then permanently seal the entrances once they are inside the concrete paradise like Fortunato in Edgar Allen Poe's The Casque of Amontillado.

In pace requiescat!

Illustration by Henry Clarke 1919

Goodby June 2020

Today is the First day of July.

2020 has been a year dominated by the Covid Crisis, but video of George Floyd's brutal May 25 murder by the Minneapolis PD has altered the USA. His death sentence was in response to his having passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenient store. President Andrew Jackson's face is on the 'double-saw buck'

Millions of outraged people have taken to the streets demanding justice and the defunding of the police.

June 1 - Minneapolis burned n response to the city government's lax response to the Police killing a black man for nothing

Two nights ago I was with the young occupiers of New York's City Hall. Their encampment on Centre Street effectively blocked the Brooklyn Bridge and they are dedicated to forcing the city to cut $1 billion from the NYPD budget to be redistributed to the general welfare fund. I walked among them, an old man. Their furor is well placed to disturb the 'same old same old'.

The police were the police.

The Atlanta 12 shot Rayshard Brooks on his daughter's 8th Birthday for exceeding the DWI limit by .02%.

Breonna Taylor, 26, was killed in her own home by the Filth in March and the Steroid Slave Patrols have no intention of stopping their rampage.

Little good happened in June, although the PO-Dee celebrated the High Holiday of National Donut Day with impunity.

Wars raged across the world.

Travel was banned everywhere in the world.

I am trapped in NY, but I do get out to the world.

The only drinker at the 169 Bar.

I protested with my friend Brigette.

Brigette and her beau Jacob trained north to Catskill.

Canal Street after midnight was dead.

I won't say who was to blame.

The rich never own up to their sins.

My family was safe in Thailand.

My loving daughter Angie and grandson SunSun.

He was almost named Captain Sunsun and I thought he was a superhero.

Now the six-month old is SunSun.

A superhero for me.

My good comrade Jocko Weyland was getting in the last ski-runs in the Sierras.

I found the END on Broad Channel.

I thought it was going to be worse, but the sea forgives those who love it and will kill anyone who refuses to acknowledge its power.

My old punk comrade Rick Guadalcanal was in deep isolation.

I had a bout with Covid in late March.

We sit in his backyard and fed peanuts to the squirrels.

Both of us appreciate the simple life.

Father's Day was glorious with the Nepolas.

And

One more thing. FUCK THE TRAITOR TRUMP.

One day we will laugh again in the sunshine somewhere over the rainbow.