Hello Fellow Travelers!
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I know, I know, the fast-black-chubby-spider-with-the-despot-head has been done to death. Stick a fork in it done. You get it - I don't like anything with eight legs. This is the last one, I promise! I go to the well-of-eight one last time because I'm puzzled by our Commander-In-Chief: The President's MAGA mantra seems to be some desire for a bygone era - ( 50's? 60's?) when women cooked, cleaned and wore high heels. "Ladies" raised children (or were supposed to) and weren't supposed to worry their pretty little heads about money or decisions. Big, strong, men would pick out the homes and decide how to best spend the family income, they drank cocktails and smoked a lot. During this unevolved, brainless, period in our history the enemy was always Russia, (the former Soviet Union). Russians were bad, evil, the antithesis of Democracy. Spies were always Russian. Cartoon baddies were Russians (remember Boris & Natasha?).
Vladimir Putin was a KGB Colonel, he eliminated people. Reportedly, he still does. He rules Russia with an iron fist. He's a killer - everybody knows this. Every speck of common sense, every iota of knowledge blinks STAY AWAY! in neon in letters 10 ft. high. Completely obvious. So why does our Government allow him to run all over the place like a rogue arachnid? I always thought Russia was our enemy - "Better Dead than Red", remember that? Have you seen this guy? He makes Tony Soprano look cuddly! His eyes say, "Danger!" So, even if I buy into (and I don't) this "Happy Days"/"Leave It To Beaver" scenario one essential component is missing: an ongoing distrust/feud between the US President and the Russian one, Why isn't our president asking Putin serious questions like JFK asked Kruschev?
Why am I asking this fairly obvious question? Happy you asked! Because now I have to add Putin to my bonfire-o'-stress and it's like adding jet fuel to a campfire - explosive - and it's too much! Fire is engulfing my state, I am figuring out an emergency plan where I'm not BBQ'd-in-a-Wheelchair. I have no capacity for devoting what's left of my brain to foreign adversaries. And make no mistake, Putin is an adversary, a dangerous one. Despite how much Trump wants us to like Mr. Putin, I was taught often and repeatedly - Watch Out! Danger! Beware! Russia will never be our friend for obvious reasons. Putin is obvious, brutish and amoral. I thought when East Germany fell we were done worrying about us vs. them.
Russian nogoodniks? Spy vs. Spy? Cold war! I thought we were long past that time, like polio. But it's back, it's more dangerous than ever and we have to deal with Putin, find out if/what/how bad he's done and respond accordingly. It's not even a Scooby Doo Mystery. It's so simple I can almost figure it out, but we have to deal with it - NOW!
Then I can stop freaking out at the news and focus my attention on walking and talking again. Fast-moving spiders (with spider heads) occasionally cross my path and I have to be prepared to deal with them. And no, it's not life or death (for me anyway) but being ready is!
Vladimir Putin was a KGB Colonel, he eliminated people. Reportedly, he still does. He rules Russia with an iron fist. He's a killer - everybody knows this. Every speck of common sense, every iota of knowledge blinks STAY AWAY! in neon in letters 10 ft. high. Completely obvious. So why does our Government allow him to run all over the place like a rogue arachnid? I always thought Russia was our enemy - "Better Dead than Red", remember that? Have you seen this guy? He makes Tony Soprano look cuddly! His eyes say, "Danger!" So, even if I buy into (and I don't) this "Happy Days"/"Leave It To Beaver" scenario one essential component is missing: an ongoing distrust/feud between the US President and the Russian one, Why isn't our president asking Putin serious questions like JFK asked Kruschev?
Why am I asking this fairly obvious question? Happy you asked! Because now I have to add Putin to my bonfire-o'-stress and it's like adding jet fuel to a campfire - explosive - and it's too much! Fire is engulfing my state, I am figuring out an emergency plan where I'm not BBQ'd-in-a-Wheelchair. I have no capacity for devoting what's left of my brain to foreign adversaries. And make no mistake, Putin is an adversary, a dangerous one. Despite how much Trump wants us to like Mr. Putin, I was taught often and repeatedly - Watch Out! Danger! Beware! Russia will never be our friend for obvious reasons. Putin is obvious, brutish and amoral. I thought when East Germany fell we were done worrying about us vs. them.
Russian nogoodniks? Spy vs. Spy? Cold war! I thought we were long past that time, like polio. But it's back, it's more dangerous than ever and we have to deal with Putin, find out if/what/how bad he's done and respond accordingly. It's not even a Scooby Doo Mystery. It's so simple I can almost figure it out, but we have to deal with it - NOW!
Then I can stop freaking out at the news and focus my attention on walking and talking again. Fast-moving spiders (with spider heads) occasionally cross my path and I have to be prepared to deal with them. And no, it's not life or death (for me anyway) but being ready is!
