Drumpf continues to careen out of control. Calling up world leaders like they were high school buddies. Telling Pakistan how \u201cfantastic\u201d they were, accepting an invitation to visit, offering to help with whatever problems they have (we have avoided any such statements for decades due to the Kashmir dispute and their possession of nukes). Congratulating the dictator\/”president” of Kazahkistan on 25 years of success (he was a dictator for two decades, then elected president with 97% of the vote. Right.) Telling the new British PM to \u201cdrop by next time she was in the States.\u201d My God. Maybe they can have pizza together.<\/p>\n
He claimed to save Carrier jobs from moving to Mexico. But in actuality, he had Pence not<\/em> resign the Indiana governorship in order that he could authorize $7M in tax breaks for Carrier, so that Carrier would only ship half<\/em> of the 2000 jobs to Mexico. The Trumpeters all claim this as proof positive of his campaign pledge to bring jobs back, lacking the wit to realize that no jobs came back <\/em>from anywhere, that a 1000 jobs left<\/em>, and not because he punished the offending corporation, but because he gave them millions in taxpayers’ dollars.<\/p>\n He\u2019s started a completely unprecedented (as is everything about this out of control megalomaniac) \u201cThank You\u201d tour. Instead of focusing on the transition, or receiving daily intelligence briefings, the egotistical Orange Fool is holding rallies everywhere, acting like the campaign was still in progress, but apparently with the sole purpose of touting his win, bashing enemies he\u2019s already beaten, and absorbing the praise of the mindless. He cannot live, it seems, without constant adulation.<\/p>\n As for me, I continue to be deeply depressed by every aspect of what is coming. The media, on the other hand, continues to normalize him. It seems that even the so-called “good guys” will simply lay down and wait for the chariot to roll over them. Except for Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O’Donnel and Joy Reid. Thank god for them, and especially Rachel. If the day comes when she stops making the obvious point, I will know the fight is truly lost.<\/p>\n Pelosi was reelected as minority leader, proving that the Dems have no plan or even real intent whatsoever of impeding the coming disaster. Tom Ryan from Ohio had great ideas and fire in his belly, something we desperately needed. Instead, we got the same old same old. Damn it! Why won\u2019t somebody make a real effort to do<\/em> something?<\/p>\n But then I realize that there\u2019s nothing to<\/em> do, except hunker down and hope there\u2019ll be something left to salvage when the storm of stupidity and greed passes.<\/p>\n “Welcome to the Soft Parade <\/em> Jim Morrison<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a9 2016 Chuck Puckett<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drumpf continues to careen out of control. Calling up world leaders like they were high school buddies. Telling Pakistan how \u201cfantastic\u201d they were, accepting an invitation to visit, offering to help with whatever problems they have (we have avoided any such statements for decades due to the Kashmir dispute and their possession of nukes). Congratulating … Continue reading “The Soft Parade”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/puckettpublishing.com\/yearsofbeing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAll our lives we sweat and save, <\/em>
\nBuilding for a shallow grave <\/em>
\nMust be something else we say, <\/em>
\nSomehow to defend this place <\/em>
\nEverything must be this way, <\/em>
\nEverything must be this way, yeah <\/em>
\nThe Soft Parade has now begun, <\/em>
\nListen to the engines hum<\/em>”<\/p>\n
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