The Trump Trap 

Looking Like Venus

We all know what the Venus Flytrap looks like. It's beautiful, the colors are amazing, and it emits an intoxicating scent. In the grand scheme of things, the trap is only good for four or five kills before that section of the plant dies, but the plant itself can live up to 20 years.

Like the Venus trap, people can play these games of presenting a lie like a truth, and they can go on doing this for many years. The games that politicians play are also deadly, and those games can go on for as long as the environment lets them thrive.

Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that blooms year after year in May and June. Their flowers are on stalks 8 to 12 inches tall and well above the trap shaped leaves so they don't catch the same species of insects that come to pollinate their flowers.

The meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner came about because Kushner asked for it  Right there is an imbalance of power, and Jeffries should not have taken it. It was a trap designed to split the Democratic party into two factions. 

Ostensibly, according to Jeffries, it was to talk about the unaffordability of our current problems, like housing, groceries, and health care  Jeffries talked about this for too long, and it sounded like a smoke screen for something transactional . With their history of lies and the destruction of truth, why would we believe anything Kushner might have said and that Jeffries then relayed to the American people?

Jeffries' speech claimed we should be open to talking about unaffordability and seeking solutions together. That was the essence of his message. But the longer Jeffries talked, the more he seemed too smiley and too condescending to the audience.

The result of this meeting is that the tactic of divide and conquer has now been achieved. With the horrible rant of James Carville and his attack against Jeffries, we now have a war within the Democratic Party. We should not kid ourselves. The people sacrificed to this administration have been justified by lies, and accountability is nowhere to be seen.

We live within the Garden of Trumpism, and there is no weedkiller that will kill this garden of lies. Why would Kushner be sympathetic to the affordability of people's lives when everything they have done for the past years has only made our lives more expensive?

If the midterms do not achieve a new Congress that is for the American people and adheres to the laws of our Constitution, the Republicans will retain their hold over truth and continue to lie. Their sudden concern for our affordability will just fade away, and the trap will close on Change and Truth.  

Venus is beautiful. Will our Democratic party continue to be the willing and unwitting agent for the lovely words of the Garden of Trumpisum caretakers, or will the Democratic Party "grow some Cojones"  and kill the flytrap. Words by Madeleine Albright.

The Predator

The Predator will only leave the kill when nothing is left to destroy or devour.

 The Predator will stalk and  savor the thrill of the kill. He will take the leftover and hide it for later satisfaction of his strength. He will come back time and time again to his favorite hunting ground, repeating his hunt of the weak and young.

The Predator has no feelings of empathy or ability to distinguish between right or wrong, the Predator's instincts are for the taking even if he is not hungry, he just has an overarching drive to take, disarm, and destroy the weak. He doesn't need any law or justification for his actions, he is the King of the jungle, and as such, will boldly strike those who are weak and are at the mercy of the Predator King.

The Predator listens to himself roaring loudly on his great Hill and demanding that his prey hear him and that they cower in the darkness of fear. They hide helplessly and know that their time comes when the stalking entity catches their sent of fear, that the attack will come, their identity seen, their life force is too small, insignificant, and weak to keep the Predator at bay. The end can be Now for the weak.

Is there a way for the lives of the Many to protect themselves from the Predator? Yes, it's called Containment. Prevention from the kill comes in many forms and places. The Jungle can be made safe when the Many capture the Predator and find a faraway place for him to live. The Many can build safe environments from per-ordained rules that make it impossible for the Predator to find a way out of his containment to destroy. The Many can when needed, will incapacitate the predator's ability to live the life of destruction. The Many can put the predator in a place where his Roar no longer can be heard and amplified by his being on the great Hill.

The Many have a collective intellect. The Many have their historical knowledge of what life can be when not threatened by a predator. The Many can put aside their different concerns and for their future see that their combined resources of the Many brings safety, hope and a future pursuit of happiness... out of the Many Comes the Strength of ONE.

Just a few hours after the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the first committee to design a seal for the United States was appointed, and its design began. After undergoing numerous changes, on June 20, 1782, the seal was officially adopted by the Continental Congress.

The committee members—Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams—prepared a very complicated design that was promptly tabled by Congress. However, one prominent feature of their design appeared in the design that was originally adopted—the motto E Pluribus Unum, "Out of Many, One."

 

Mongolia the eternal blue sky

The Planet Earth

An Art Place of Life and Wonder

This Morning the Union Tribune paper wrote about the expansion of the Iran War, and that the U.S. is bombing civilian targets....

Tonight I will go to the Oceanside Museum of Art to celebrate our City's Place of visual arts and Community. I love this place that I envisioned so many years ago. The City has changed in attitude, accommodations, flavor of life experiences and our place in the world of Art.

In the grand scheme of things, our Art place is so very small in relation to the beauty of our Earth Planet. I see the grand expanse of the deserts, the misty forests, oceans, the vast and unknowable steeps of the Mongolia colors, the infinity of the visible.

When we think of the grandest of the Museums of our Art World, the thought of setting fire or bombing them is unthinkable, but that is exactly what is happening to our planet, the grandest of all Museums...The love that we have for human accomplishments in the arts should have the same care and protection for our Earth Planet.

The Colors, The Scale, The Loudness, The Streams of Life Force is beyond putting these elements in a man made place, yet we do not have the same belief of importance that we do for our human creations. Our Wonder of the cosmos is one of our collective human frailties. We see the stars and think that somehow, we will conquer this infinity to save our human species.

We Live! In the most wondrous of place in our known universe of possibilities. This Planet of the grandest of all Art Creations is ours to preserve, to care for, to save from the savage capital greed of the human species.

I look at the planet in space and see our place in all of the cosmic creation, a small round blue ball spinning on a canvas of black infinity, and ponder the impossibility or possibility of living organisms on this ball of aloneness. This vast museum of our earth, that embodies the past, present and our future echos the historic museums of human created art works, but this Earthly place, this life place is real, and for now a livable place. Can the Human species walk the place see the place that is far more important than any built Art space of our human selves.

Will we do this, or listen to the false projections of people like Elon Musk who promises that he will save and survive our humanity on Mars where everything wants to kill you.

Our Planet Earth, the Place where humanity can live, breathe, make love, and bare our prodigy, is where the Art of life is thriving and for now, the only place where we can live. This Wondrous place, this giving place, this life place should thought of the as most scared of all created Art space we will ever have, to keep and protect. Cosmic Art, Our Earth Museum of Life...

The Children of the Futrue

 

  

The Demolitionator

I will not call the Oval Occupant the President for in my view, he is not. A President abides by the Law, does not seek to trod on the Constitution, and does not start wars for reasons that are based on lies.

Every thing that this person touches becomes broken. The horrible aspect of this is that he doesn't care. This week he said ,”I don't care”, I could care less” and this was said about the war he started. The perfect metaphor for this person is the raging bull in a china shop. Seeing something that attracts his attention, he charges forward without any thought as to the result of his actions. I now believe, that he does not have the mental or emotional bandwidth to analyze any situation that he feels compelled to destroy, kill, or bomb.  

I have a hard time thinking about what he has done that is good. Shutting the border down has stopped that massive illegal crossings into our Country, but the way he has done it is a travesty beyond all reason, to achieve fewer deportations than Biden or Obama did. The buildings, food, and health concerns that the private detention companies operate have been allowed to provide, are making millions of dollars for the owners. What they are really accomplishing is creating a mind set of making more people to hate us as a Country, and that they will some day become terrorists.

The most visible destruction for the World to see, is his gutting of the White House East Wing. Why would any leader tear down the house to make a gruesome black pit of a place for himself to live in? He does not own the White House, no matter, he charges ahead, and down it came. The videos seen of this destruction brought tears, for no foreign adversary could have done this without starting a war, but the Oval Occupant was terrible in his rampage against our House of the President. 

The most damaging accomplishment that this person has done is to take Truth from our lives. The horrible fact is, who do we believe. The dark cloud of controlling trumpisum hovers over us making us sick, seeing what our eyes see, and confronting what comes out out the mouths of the anchors on the evening news. Without exception the controllers of the news sat behind him on the day of his swearing in to up hold the Constitution, which he promptly walked away from.

Last night, Scott Pelley was fired from CBS. Sixty Minutes debuted in 1968. The World was different back then. We never had concerns that this network would not be truthful in bringing us stories from far and wide, medicine, history, politics, the good, and the bad. We Never had the idea of “Alternate Facts” thrown at us as Truth. Now, Pelley has said in his fairwell that he had been instructed to include items in his stories that were not factual and that he in all good conscience would not do this. So, he was fired.

Scott Pelley 2026

The Demolitionator cannot make the American People blind, deaf, and dumb forever. Sooner or later the growing awareness about the corruption will take away the blinders that keeps the followers of this charismatic snake oil salesman in control, and they will become thinkers once more.

I learned something from a documentary last week about where the phrase “America First” originated. Nazi Town USA in America. This slogan was used by Americans long before the Oval Occupant co-opted it. What this person really means is that He is America, thus making him First King.

 

The Children of our World

With all of the horribleness of today's world especially in the middle east, I decided that something had to make me feel better and at the same time, help the children of our world. UNICEF has a program for just this effort that helps the children and me.

I have signed up for a monthly donation for the Children, and hopefully, this small amount will help a child in need. I can't imagine the lives of these small children and how different my girls lives were growing up in a safe home with food and the comforts of a California life style. My middle daughter told me a day ago, that the bombs that could have landed in Cuba were a concern, but that earthquakes were more frightening to think about.

So, dear readers this is one way to help our world. One child at a time, and hopefully the family as well. Even though I'm on a very limited income as a senior, I feel that it is the right thing to do.

 

M.C. Escher Concave and Convex

"The Stairs to Nowhere"

The absurdity of Bigness. The mantra that we hear from the Oval Occupant is that big, bigly, hugely, is where his mind must tortuously spend most of his waking time. Over and over, the mantra of big is the adjective of his communications to the American People.

He climbs these stairs of bigness and when he realizes that he has nowhere to go in his latest escapade, the sight of nowhere gives him panic as the realization that nowhere is a losing strategy. Thus, we have Iran. His nowhere steps for his ballroom* is not a tragic tactic in the design of anything, but when applied to international wartime policy, we have a potential war crime in the making.

I think of M.C. Escher, and his stairs to nowhere, the over and around the imaginary castles of Trump's mind. His mind will change the image or conversation of something not possible to a new something that will in his mind give a new bright shiny object for public consumption and will be a step up from the bigness of the current unsolvable problem. The Epstein Files are still there just like the floor of the Escher building, the stairs continue, but there is no way to solve the ending of the stairs to nowhere...

The Metaphor of a stairway for giving the Oval Occupant a way to change the conversation of a current problem of his own making to something bigger in importance cannot work, for his structure of holding up the stairway with sycophants who cannot and are not capable of running the agencies he has put them in charge, are not structurally sound.

Now that he has led our Nation up the stairs to War in the Middle East, he  declares that Religion will be the next step for our Country. He has said that “I an King”, and his big beautiful staircase is one of National Unity through Religion. 

Our problem is that the Oval Occupant could lead our Nation into oblivion when the stairs that he has constructed crumble into the abyss of War.

* Associated Press “Architects panned the large staircase as too large and basically useless as there was no way to enter the ballroom at the top...”

TodayI heard this speech from Mark Milley he gave 

September 29, 2023 on his retirement

Now we have this

 Trump's War

I Weep

For the Assassination of JFK

For 9/11

For the Invasion of Iraq

For Trump's War 2026...

Dr. Khalil Totah the father of one of my highschool friends wrote a book, “Dynamite in the Middle East”. I read this book  in 1955. I sat with Dr. Totah one afternoon and asked him if this really could happen...and He answered, it is only a matter of Time...

I remembemer this so clearly as if it was only yesterday.

What was never considered, was that We, America, would start this War...