The Devil is in the Details…and Apparently in the White House

I toggled between two blog titles before deciding on the above. Both of them came into my mind following 45’s Friday-Saturday  tweet barrage. Yep, he’s back! Poltergeist III in his nauseating flesh. Just when you thought in the aftermath of his joint address to Congress that he might have morphed into a presidential-like communicator, he remains a spoiled, petulant child.
What was the other blog title you ask? Here’s a clue–I tawt I taw a puddy tat. Yes, you read that correctly. For those of you who were born in the US in the 50s and 60s you probably recall the cartoon Tweety Bird that starred Sylvester the bird-hunting cat and Tweety the speech-impaired canary. Sylvester was often conjuring assorted means to get to Tweety in his cage to eat him, but in each episode he ultimately fails because Tweety eventually outsmarts him. Sylvester then licks his wounds and returns to his chalkboard to try another means to eat the bird.
So after 45’s tweets that took aim at Chuck Shumer and Nancy Pelosi for their [planned, public] meetings with Russian officials years ago, and then fired at Obama accusing him of wiretapping the 45 Tower in 2016, I couldn’t help but think that 45 has become the modern day Sylvester. Just like Sylvester plots to overtake Tweety in his cage, gets close, ultimately fails and moves onto the next idea, so goes 45’s daily routine of plotting, attacking, failing and tweeting. In fact, I bet he goes to bed at midnight and sleeps for a couple hours, wakes up at 3am, admires himself in his gold leaf mirror and starts plotting against his target du jour.
I don’t know what you are thinking about his recent Tweety rants, but I think the NYT hit the nail squarely on its head when they weighed in on the possible rationale behind 45’s assorted tweet barrages. To paraphrase the NYT, they said that when someone starts responding to reports of their potential improprieties with vicious attacks upon random people and organizations, you know that you’re getting closer to the truth.
Speaking of the truth, do yourself a favor and look at the fascinating CNN timeline in the following link: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/trump-russia-timeline/index.html . Somewhere in all of this international, political, financial drama is the truth; and a yet-to-be-named Grisham novel! (John are ya hearing me yet?) But, the challenge in finding the truth is to get permission from DC to appoint a special prosecutor or someone truly impartial who is willing and able to locate and publicly pronounce the truth. Word to the wise: it won’t come in the form of a tweet, but it could possibly come from the über smart Tweety.
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Author: muppetmanblog

I found my voice in the late 70s when I attended college. The Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights were the hot topics of that era and I reactively embraced both causes. Using my new voice I facilitated conscious-raising groups, coordinated marches for the ERA and Take Back the Night, while simultaneously realizing that there were many double standards for women and men in the world. By reading the words of ceiling-breakers Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan I learned that women always have to try harder, do better and do more than our male counterparts to be considered half as good. That epiphany never sat well with me so I used my natural writing gift to raise awareness and promote equality over discrimination. I continue to believe that we are all entitled to live our best life, to be treated equally and to have the same educational and employment opportunities that enable us to achieve our aspirations. No one gets out of this mortal existence alive and we should therefore have inherent equal rights to fulfill our individual missions before we depart this earth.

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