Author: overcoffee879

WE are starting to see evidence of Mr. Trump´s evolution from Trump the candidate to Trump the president. Signs are few but they give us reason to be optimistic. For example on June 16 he insisted that incoming Mexicans were bringing in drugs, crime and they are rapists. He stated that he assumed some Mexicans coming in were good people.  Later, he referred to them as killers. Going deeper into the subject, he declared that the Mexican government was much sharper and cunning that we are. He said they only send the bad ones.  Remember how in August of 2015  he attacked Jeb Bush and his wife who is Mexican because they speak Spanish? After all, he concluded, this is America where we speak English. In that same month in Iowa he ordered the Mexican-American journalist, Jorge Ramos, to sit down when Mr. Ramos asked that candidate Trump explain his stand on immigration. He then suggested that the reporter go back to Univision. A security guard then forced Mr. Ramon to leave the room. As a native of Iowa, I resent that this primitive person practiced his Making America Great Again in my backyard. Of course he informed us that the  best Mexican food is found in the Trump Tower restaurant. In June of 2016 he declared that a judge of Mexican heritage would be unfair in hearings involving Trump University. Judge Curiel was born in Indiana.

So, what did we hear on January 27? Mr. Trump declared before the puzzled British Prime Minister and us that he now LOVES MEXICANS! That is evolution at its quickest! There is hope! DJT the President is a new man, adapted to the new age in the White House environment! One for Darwin!

Let´s drive the Republican establishment crazy with phone calls, e-mails and what have we. Let´s pound home that what Trump does we will hold them responsible for in congressional elections in 2018. Trump is not a Republican but he wares their hat. McCain and Rubio are far from my favorites but they have taken a stand against the Wizard  of Trump Land that Ryan has abandoned. The Republicans know that if they stand up to the bully that he will turn on them as he has and does on anybody who disagrees with him. So, off the streets and let´s get mean.

When a people are forced against a wall, they have but two choices: to wait on their knees to die or to rage out looking for our throat. Thank you Mr. Trump. I am sure Fox News will prove beyond any doubt that moving the embassy will be an advantage since now the ambassador´s car will   use less gasoline and contaminate less.

PS: Forget about “contaminate less”. That´s all Chinese propaganda according to the Wizard  of the Land of Trump

This past Sunday, tens of thousands of Andalusians marched in the streets of Seville, Huelva, Malaga and Granada to manifest their profound disagreement with  the regional government´s policy of slow but relentless reductions in the budget for public health services (SAS). Just recently the Andalusian Medical Association and its more than 35,000 members went on record warning the public that the cost-cutting has put medical service and hospitals on the verge of collapse. Members of the Medical Association lead the protests that now close off traffic in major cities and smaller ones across Spain´s most populous region. The manifestations are embarrassing to the regional president since she wants to present her candidacy to the national presidency of the Spanish Workers´ Socialist Party (PSOE). Can you imagine the smiles that her abandonment of social causes and benefits bring to the faces of  social democrats in the PSOE? Maybe that is why Mr. Paxti López announced his candidacy to the throne of Spanish socialism yesterday. As Americans is seems incredulous that medical associations would stand up to be counted against the potential demise of public health in Spain. Of course this is Spain, not the United States.

The Wizard of Trump

Listening to Mr. Trump I remember the Wizard of Oz. Like the charlatan of old, Wizard Trump lives in his own world from which he projects out upon us via his tuits from his shielded ivory tower in the heart of a perfect world. As Dorothy, Straw Man, Tin Man and the Lion, millions rush to his gates in search of magic solutions to a reality they dislike, fear and against which they know not how to/want to adapt.. Like the head of Land of Oz, he goes on screen to proclaim his own greatness and the misery of all who would contrary him or his views. Of course, outrage against opposition is far easier and more fun that self-criticism.

Wizard Trump and his legions of trumpeters thrive on exaggerations for confusion. They channel it into deeper resentment against those dirty, ignorant thugs, lazy bums and rapists who inhabit the outer, cruel and threatening world beyond Oz who are seeping in and are destroying the America he now promises to rebuild as we  march along in line behind him, magic wand in hand. Our Botox Oz preaches with fervor that the wizardom needs its fortress type walls with strong gates. Keep them out! Throw them out! Back to the purity of the real America the new wizard will build for us to live in forever after  happiness from sea to shining sea.

The wizard is a scary man because he believes  the fantasies he ruminates about aloud. His self-satisfied attitude as he states that he is fully capable of running his empire and the US at the same time without missing a beat is evidence of his exalted vision of his personal merit. The wizard´s casual suggestion that the defense of the Baltic states might not be significant on his agenda or his repetition of the suggestion that the one China policy, in place since President Nixon, may be abolished as the foundation of US foreign relations in Asia are staggering blows to the alliances that allow us to maintain our status as a world power. Indeed, the wizard spends his time broadcasting his many baseless conclusions about the future and his plans to reprogram it on what he admits are not studied conclusions but instinctual reactions. We can only hope that much of the wizard´s thoughts for actions will pass for what they are: gas.

The hopeful tell us that from the campaign trail to reality Mr. Trump will change- Why? On what do they base such illusions on? Isn´t today´s wizard the same charlatan he was two months ago? Why should he moderate his mouth? After all, things went very well for him when he blurted out anything that sounded simple, aggressive and sincerely off the cuff and from the gut to win the support of the trumpeters.

Finally, much of the trauma we are going through now is the legacy of years of Democrat and Republican misgovernment. When we imagine the members of the House and Senate, I at least, am reminded of myself and pals in the play ground while in kindergarden. Remember how we thought that throwing send into someboy´s eyes was fun? Indeed, the Wizard of Trump succeeded due to the fact that the  parties have proven themselves irrelevant to many, many Americans in the difficulties found in our daily life. Like so many of his supporters, the new president is a victim of arbitrary resentment against the political establishment. In his case populist rancor is a key ingredient in the batter he mixes. Let´s keep in mind that the yellow brick road to the Land of Oz ain´t paved with gold. Charlatans and miracle medicine salesmen are artists at passing themselves off as experts to save us from our fears and bitterness without really solving what provokes them.