May 28th and November 11th Come to Mind

Oh to be alive at such a time! 

We have every kind of technology at our beck and call to help us do, to be, to go, anything, anyone or anywhere we wish to. If you don’t look too closely we have peace and prosperity although the veneer is getting a little thin on both of those and we have a “B” if not more likely a “C” list TV personality as the President of the United States with a head so empty that a thought of any kind just rolls around in that orange-hued noggin and makes a noise like a bee-bee in a boxcar. 

The man in the Oval Office, in the words of a former Vice President, has 'difficulty with precision' which, at any other time in our history might well be a screaming headline on newspapers across the country but here in Trumpland it's generated little more than a yawn because our New Normal with the Prevaricator in Chief at the helm is so skewed we can't even take a sighting of the horizon and be certain that's what's really there. 

Cadet Bone Spurs, who, having led a charmed, coddled, and sheltered life, feels absolutely no obligation to extend assistance to anyone not in his family tree and crony circle continues to compensate for genitalia I suspect he doesn't have as he spends money on a military industrial complex with its nose deep in the trough at the expense of improving and enhancing the lives of every day Americans in need of basics like food, clothing, shelter, meaningful employment with a living wage and universal affordable healthcare.  

And now the man who successfully avoided getting anything on him during the entire Vietnam War (full disclosure: I had a 2H draft deferment as an enrollee in Army ROTC at Rutgers College) wants "his" Pentagon to stage a parade to celebrate the men and women of the US Armed forces, like the parades annually staged in Russia or held (seemingly) every other week in North Korea because he was so impressed by the French Bastille Day parade he witnessed. Not for nothing, azzhole, the French also have universal health care; how about trying to imitate that?.

Macy's Parade has floats, why not Trump's?

As an eight-year veteran of the United States Air Force who enjoyed the cool of Greenland north of the Arctic Circle during the heat of the Cold War I can't help but point out to Dear Leader that on my calendar for this year we have Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day. 

I and millions of brothers and sisters in arms on those days remember all with whom we served to protect and preserve our nation. It wasn't and isn't always easy, not that the Mango Mussolini could know that, and we didn't do it for a thank you. 

Perhaps speaking only for me, I know the reward for doing a hard job well is the knowledge that you have done it. Nothing else is expected or desired. Try doing your job, Tiny Hands.

-bill kenny