The Flag Code, federal law since 1942, directs that American flags
in this condition be “destroyed with dignity, “preferably by burning.”
That breakage aphorism
hangs on the walls and from the ceilings of many a china shop. It is
directed at the bulls, at least the ones with some form of currency.
With unemployment at its
current trump-induced level, few of us are bulls, people expecting a rising
stock market. Nor do we have much cash. But we have in fact broken
it. We broke it by allowing an antiquated electoral system to overrule
the peoples’ vote and putting into office a president with no policies, no
scruples, no sense of right and wrong… who sees no difference between the world
as it is and the world from which deep staters and space aliens plant notions
in such parts of his brain that actually work.
Part of it is the
handiwork of the lunatic right and the angry whites. But part of it also is the
work of the so-called loyal opposition which nominated the second most
repelling candidate in electoral history. Hillary makes Nixon look good. trump
makes Nixon look saintly. Well, maybe not saintly, but a lot better than
we thought of him at the time. Makes you long for a third rate burglary and
secret tape recordings with erased gaps of, oh, say, 18 minutes.
So with three million
more votes than trump, Hillary should be president, right? Wrong.
That’s because the in-place status of the electoral college makes the real
decision about who takes the oath of office. And because its members are
politicians coated in sleaze -- please forgive the redundancy -- what we get is
… what we got. Three million votes were not enough. Miserable as
she may be, Mrs. Clinton should have been the one standing there before the (photoshopped)
largest inaugural crowd in history. Not because she’d have been the first
woman US President. Not because of the weasel deals that have been the
hallmark of her too-long political career, but simply because she’s not our
current “wartime President.
The most important
lesson trump has taught most of us has fallen on deaf ears: Don’t let him
happen to you. Again.
NOTES FROM ALL OVER:
(NEWBURGH, NY) -- A lot
of movies and cheap channel TV shows have been shot in New York’s Hudson Valley
recently. But that lucrative business has fallen off to near zero. The
same is true of acting, directing and craft union scabs who usually film their
low budget crap in Canada.
(GAFFNEY, SC) -- Red’s
Watering Hole in this tiniest of tiny towns is closed for the duration.
When open, the entire population of Smyrna can fit inside with room to spare.
If a 46th person needs watering, Red’s has a nice lawn where you can sit. Will
Red’s reopen someday? No one’s saying. If not, there’s always the Coal
Yard Lounge nearby.
(CHICAGO) -- This
beleaguered city has lost one of its great tourist attractions. Lake Michigan
has become so clean you no longer can walk on it when it’s not frozen.
(BOSTON) -- Actress Lori
Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli have changed their plea to “guilty”
in the college admissions scandal. They are said to have paid half a million
dollars to the University of Southern California to admit their daughters as
members of the rowing team. Their jail sentences will be measured in months.
There’s a $150,000 fine and the two girls will have to take their online
classes sharing a Compaq laptop which runs the 1985 version of Windows with a
dial-up connection.
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2020
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