CASSANDRA WARNING

 

 

Cassandra was a woman who seduced the god Apollo into giving her the gift of prophecy.  When she refused His further advances, He placed a curse on her that her prophecies, though true, would never be believed. 

 

Liberal Democrats are shocked at Trump’s use of the military: ordering a military parade on his birthday, 

and in complete defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of active-duty military personnel for civilian law enforcement, ordering active-duty Marines to deploy within the United States to confront American citizens.

This is a move by a President away from democracy as we have always known it: using the military in a first step toward authoritarian takeover – a presidential grab for absolute power.

 

This is happening in the short term, and Democrats are protesting with hollow rhetoric. 

No one seems to be focused on the long term?

Warning – Warning – Warning!

 

Donald Trump is an ignorant man, but he is a survivor.  He is planning to use the military to remain in power at the end of his presidential term of office. 

Claiming fraud, he may also use the military to confiscate voting machines after the midterm elections, in states where the results do not suit his desired outcome.

It doesn't take a Delphic Oracle to see this future.

the Ol'Buzzard

 

HAVE YOU SEEN CLIFF CASH?

 

The best thing you can do to MAGA is make fun of them: then they appear as stupid and ridiculous as they actually are.

P.T. Barnum said you don't have to be smart to con people, you just have to be smarter than the rubes you are conning.  That means that most MAGA are dumber than Donald Trump; the rest are just riding his train.  

Think about that.  

the Ol'Buzzard

 

ANOTHER ONE OF MY GEN GONE. 

RIP SLY

the Ol'Buzzard

SEE YOU IN COURT

 

IT TAKES A WOMAN

 

Could we be looking at the next Democratic Presidential candidate?

Main Governor Janet Mills is the only person to stand up to Trump face-to-face.      Democratic Senators and congresspeople will talk about Trump but will not defy him to his face.   It takes a Maine woman.

 

Maine political women have a history of standing up to corruption.  This is a legacy from Margaret Chase Smith, who stood up against McCarthyism in the 1950s

 

 the Ol'Buzzard

FAHRENHEIT 451

 

Fiction books have been written about a dystopian America led by a charismatic sociopath and a cabal of oligarchs that serve as his minions.

Fiction often precedes reality.    Fahrenheit 451, 1984 – it couldn’t happen here!  

 But it is happening.

 

The asylum has been taken over by the inmates; Congress has relinquished its role as a check-and-balance on the executive; the legal system has become corrupted from the top; and law firms are capitulating to executive pressure. 

 

You don’t have to burn books when you can defund libraries.  You don’t have to tell the truth when your oligarchs own the news media.   You don’t have to abide by the rule of law when the top judicial court of the land is your proxy.

 

Laws, rules, and norms no longer matter when they constrain Dear Leader.

We are entering a new dystopian America, and we are advancing with our eyes wide open. 

 

It happened in Germany in 1938, and in Turkey and Hungary in the last three decades.  We are in the midst of an American coup led by a conman supported by half the population. 

 

Trump will disenfranchise or outright prevent the mid-term elections.  Supported by his MAGA minions and a Republican Party wishing to retain power, Trump will not leave office at the end of his term.

A Fascist dictatorship brought to you by American oligarchy, individuals seeking power, the religious right, the uneducated, and the ignorant.

The damage is already too extensive.  We can’t go back and make it right.

 

Welcome to the new America.

the Ol'Buzzard

IT TAKES A WOMAN TO NEUTER TRUMP

 

With dozens of men in the room cringing at Trump's gaze, it took a woman, the governor of Maine, to stand toe-to-toe with the egomaniacal President and answer him with defiance. 

Afterwards, certain news outlets said that Governor Mills had more balls than the men in the room.

That was wrong.  She had more vagina than anyone else in the room.

 

The image of big balls being tough is just a fantasy.    A well-placed slap on a man’s genital area will have him on the ground in agony.   

A woman, however, can push a twenty-inch, ten-pound bag of bones, blood and flesh through her vagina one day and be up the next day feeding her family and getting her kids off to school. 

That’s fucking tough

 So, our governor, Janet Mills, had the biggest vagina in the room when she told Trump, “We’ll see you in court.”  

Maine has always been known as the state of hardy men and strong women.


the Ol'Buzzard

THE CANADIAN PROVENCE OF MAINE

 

Dear Canada

Please buy Maine.  Make an offer to Trump that he can’t refuse.  Remind him Maine did not vote for him in the last election.  Offer to trade him England; he won't know the difference.  Say you will recognize him as King of America – appeal to his vanity. 

 

Maine has great natural resources and a thriving tourist economy, so it would make sense for Maine to become one of your maritime provinces.

  Mainers are so much like Canadians that there would be little adjustment – though we might balk at God Save the King. 

 

the Ol’Buzzard