VOTE!

 

It is vitally important that every intelligent and patriotic American vote today.

And it is equally vital that every intelligent and patriotic American vote against EVERY Republican candidate for EVERY office in EVERY election at EVERY level.

The greatest threat facing America, the American people, American democracy, and true American values is ignorant and incompetent, crooked and corrupt convicted felon, indicted traitor, and malignant narcissist Donald “The Man Who Would Be King” Trump and today’s Trump-embracing and the Religious Right controlled Republican Party.

Trump’s one and only agenda is feeding his ego, lining his pockets, and acquiring complete control of the government.

And the agenda of today’s Republican Party is not based on legitimate conservative political philosophy but on ignorance, racism, bigotry, and fascism.  Today’s Republican Party does not want a government based on freedom, equality, and the Constitution.  It wants one based on racist and repressive distortions of Christian doctrine, which are the opposite of the true teachings of Christ. 

The agenda of today’s Republican Party is directly contrary to the policies and values of true conservatives and traditional Republicans.  It wants to legislate what you can read, what you can think, who you can love, how you can act and what public schools can and cannot tech.  Today’s Republican Party supports banning books, censoring history, and suppressing the teaching of anything that does not strictly conform to extreme fundamentalist white Christian nationalist propaganda.

If Republicans win today America truly loses!

TAFN

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKT1yU033C0&list=RDCKT1yU033C0&start_radio=1

 

A very Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year.

Let's hope it's a good one,

without any Trump!

THE CAT IN THE HAT IDENTIFIES A RAT

 

MISSING THE CAPITOL STEPS

 

I am sorry that the Capitol Steps is no longer with us.   

The Capitol Steps was a comedy group originally created by congressional staffers that “put the MOCK in democracy” from 1981 to 2020.  I saw several of their performances on Theatre Row in NYC and in their home base in Washington DC. 

They were known for Weird Al-ish (for those of my generation Allan Sherman-ish) political song parodies.  Who could forget “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea” and “Condoleezza” (“Condoleezza, Condoleezza father named me.”).

Their performances also included a “spoonerism” bit – a monologue given in a kind of pig latin where corresponding consonants and vowels are switched between two words of a phrase.  I remember one that discussed Bill Clinton, “a gorney huy” (huy pronounced “high”).

I would love to hear their take on the second Trump Administration.  There could be “Maaaaaaaaaaar-a-Lago” to the tune of “Oklahoma” (“Maaaaaaaaaaar-a-Lago, where the rich go to kiss Trump’s arse and ring.”).  Think what they could have done with the Knickerbocker’s “Lies”, “The Fool on the Hill”, and Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” (“Lie lie lie.  Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie.”).

TAFN

VOTE!

 

The greatest threat facing America and American democracy is today’s Trump-embracing and Religious Right controlled Republican Party.

It is truly vital for the future of America that you vote against EVERY Republican candidate in EVERY election on EVERY level today!

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID!

 

It is time to be afraid – be very afraid.

I will continue to say this.  The greatest threat facing America and American freedoms, democracy, and values is convicted felon and indicted traitor Donald “the Man Who Would Be King” Trump and today’s racist and repressive Trump-embracing and Religious Right controlled Republican Party. 

EVERY true conservative and traditional Republican MUST forget political philosophy or Party support.  Today’s political situation is NOT about liberal vs conservative policy.  

EVERY intelligent and patriotic American - Democrat, Republican, or Independent - MUST publicly, vocally, and aggressively oppose and denounce Trump and his every action.

EVERY intelligent and patriotic American - Democrat, Republican, or Independent - MUST vote to defeat EVERY Republican candidate in EVERY election at EVERY level from now through 2028.  The Democrats MUST take control of Congress and state legislatures if democracy is to survive.

America, and the world, will not be safe until we get rid of Trump and his deplorable and despicable Administration.      

TAFN

TODAY’S CHRISTIANITY AIN’T CHRISTIAN

I am a “senior citizen”.  I was born a Protestant Christian – a “northern” Methodist.  My parents were heavily involved in the social and religious life and in the administration of our local church. 

Growing up I regularly attended my church’s Sunday School and ecumenical week-day and summer “Bible School” and as a teen-ager my church’s youth group and Methodist summer conference/camp, where I was taught the true teachings of Christ and Christianity – love they neighbor, accept the different, do unto others, feed the hungry, heal the sick, help the needy, and welcome the stranger.

As a teen-ager and young adult my Protestant Christian upbringing led me to be involved in local and national politics and community and national social action, in ecumenical and secular organizations, to promote the previously identified true teachings of Christ and Christianity - but certainly not to advocate the legislation of the individual “rules and restrictions” of Protestant Christianity.

As an adult I was, and am, truly “lapsed” and a bit more of an agnostic than a full atheist – but I have always acknowledged and appreciated the positive effect my Christian upbringing had on shaping the person I am today.

What has become the more public and vocal Christianity of today – the Christianity of the so-called “evangelicals” of the Religious Right that have taken control of the Republican Party – bears absolutely no resemblance to the Christianity I was brought up in.  The policies of today's "Christianity" are directly contrary to the true teachings of Christ and Christianity I learned in my childhood religious education.

Today’s Christianity truly ain’t Christian anymore.

TAFN