Day Twenty Four

The No Kings Rally,

Brookdale Park,

Montclair,

10. 18. 25.

The government shutdown was in its 18th day that day,

(20th as I write this),

with no end in sight.

National Guard troops have been distributed here and there.

Bolton was just indicted last week.

Trump is going after anyone who criticizes him.

It always amazes me that more Republicans,

I mean just the person-next-door variety,

are not freaking out about this kind of on-going anti-American madness.

But then he goes and brings and end to the Israeli / Hamas War.

Thank you so much, Mr. President.

I only check in with the news every once in awhile.

I hear snippets.

I think it was back when he bombed the nuclear facilities in Iran,

shortly afterwards,

when the jury was completely out as to whether this was a good thing or a bad thing,

I heard this guy on the news saying that Biden had advisers telling him that players in the Middle East didn’t really care about fairness and diplomacy, so much as respect strength and power.

That’s what they respond to.

Our President, the reality TV Star, the guy who knows how to pose and say the right things to press the right buttons of his base,

maybe this time he got it right.

The showman pulled it off.

They know him to be crazy enough to do anything.

I always think that everyone is thinking and doing exactly what I would think and do if I were them,

so I think about his base,

and how they are being consistently fed this diet of Trump as storybook hero kind of a guy,

that he is right about everything,

and it’s like I can understand how comforting that fantasy could be.

What pops the illusion,

is all that he is,

that doesn’t fit anyone’s storybook.

He likes to hurt people.