For Real?

I wrote the following a number of days ago, after our President called Governor  Walz a Retard; what is wrong with him?  Honestly, for a number of broadcasts I didn't know what they were talking about, for anchors were shuddering and referring to the slur as the R-word.  Since I haven't thought of that term since grade school, I didn't realize it was a thing, like the N-word.  Now I know.  This, on the heels of spewing the P-word ("Piggy") at a reporter on Air Force One, oy vey!

But it's been a few days and I've calmed down somewhat, so rather than write a completely new piece, I've decided to perform some editing to make this less insulting and more entertaining.  Not as much fun for me, but here we go:

"What thou seest, that thou beest," Mom, a devout Christian Scientist, would quote while teaching a lesson about Perception.

Donald Trump's weight obsession isn't new (from 2016, "Why Can't Donald Trump Stop Talking About Fat People?")  I'd bet money he's got a 'weight clause' for some of his key (female) associates, who, it's apparent, he select based on their appearance more than experience, competence and common sense. (Their decisions to become ensnared proves their lack-thereof.)

Here I cut out an entire paragraph which included the H-word; let's see where your Perception takes you.

The one exception of note is White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.  Heard-tell she's a brilliant political strategist who can control the Beast, but she'll be gone once she says "No, Sir" one too many times, if she does at all.

It's only been one year, so unless a nuclear war ends us all or the President has a massive heart attack like my Tino, we're stuck with him for another three years.  I don't see how we'll become a more bonded citizenry without an external threat of some sort, which none of us wants but Trump seems determined to instigate. (Why?  Why, to capitulate to our enemy thus adding another notch on his Wars I've Ended belt.)

He's blowing up schlubs in boats but pardoning ruthless traffickers.  What I don't understand (among so many things) is how he figures that by ending the importation of drugs that's going to stop the demand in this country?  Why isn't he so hell-fire bent on rounding up drug dealers in every neighborhood in America and going after their higher-up importers?

But even if they do stop importing drugs, what will be the replacement?  Desperate people will be ingesting clemical cleaners and sniffing aerosol cans, so they'll have to deal with those problems, too.

Backwards, that's the direction Trump's Gang's taking us.  Cancelling hard-won environmental policies with the stroke of a Sharpie; tearing down a White House wing on a whim; sicking his Justice Department on anyone who displeases him. And don't tell me he's worried about dangerous Somalians so much as causing Gov. Walz grief.

I'm still paying close to $4 a gallon for gasoline; and struggling like everyone else to make the food budget last.  President Trump is so insulting - doesn't have a clue about struggling.   He thinks groceries is such a quaint word (what did they call them in his family?) and now the issue of affordability is merely a ploy of the Democrats.

Really?