Like A Malignant Tumor
Cancer in the Body Politic
Me, “Goose it has been a while since I hauled you into one of these posts.”
Goose, “I am thankful. I have had an arduous nap schedule this summer and everytime I wake up and look at the news, the crook in the Whitehouse has slimed some other institution or person.”
Me, “That’s certainly true and I liken him to a malignant tumor that has spread to every part of your body. It is going to take some serious chemotherapy and radiation to knock him back.”
Goose, “There seems to be a whole sub-current that believes the crook in the Whitehouse might have gone to far in hiding the Epstein files.”
Me, “Unfortunately, he is like one of those hard-shelled bugs that you have kill four or five times before you finish it off. When someone started making fun of his skin, I could only think about the scene in Raiders of Lost Ark where the Nazi’s skin melts off of him. But hey, I only want him out of office.”
Goose, “ I think the real test will come in two or three months when the tariffs really start to bite. (unless he pulls a TACO move again) I was rolling on the floor when he bragged inflation was under control. Everything is more exspensive and I sense everyone is cutting back on their spending a little. While his disapproval rating hit a new high of 55%, he still has that base of maganuts that likely will hang with him.”
Me, “I think depending on bad news on the economy and revulsion towards his immigration policies is a weak and lazy strategy. With the Democrats stuck in the “give-me-more-money mood” and I will show you how we are going to fight trump, there is no current road to success.”
Goose, “I am been thoroughly unimpressed with the opposition to trump. There has to be a more public way to get under his skin.”
Me, “Well, I don’t have any brilliance to unload on our audience, I do know that if Democrats want to win, they have to start listening to people who usually vote Republican. As an opposition, we need to hear what they would do different. It is important make positions clear that cuts to the SNAP program undermine local farmers and foodbanks. Democrats need to start talking about how many people in nursing homes are going to lose their care. The opposition should make it crystal clear how the crackdown on illegal immigration is going to hurt farmers, builders, and homeowners. They need to shout that from the roofs and talk about giving people a way to be a legal immigrants. Trump is not just deporting real criminals, he is deporting our neighbors.”
Goose, “I agree. Right now, it seems the crook in the Whitehouse owns all the media. Now that he has Stephen Colbert on the way out, we will have to find someone else to put a daily perspective on this dumpster fire that is now our country. I have a hard time believing that the US was one of two countries voting against the UN resolution that declared food a basic right. When did we become international assholes?”
Me, “ Old buddy, the news is uniformly bad but we need to start thinking about how we repair the damage and make government stronger and more efficient once we get trump out of power. This might be a battle to the death.”
Goose, “I shall return to my napping with the hope that when I wake up, this nightmare will be over.”