Happy Halloween, boys and girls, kids and kiddies. Especially those of you in, say, certain neighborhoods with a preponderance of Hispanic families. 2025’s version of all things spooky, creepy but all in the spirit of good fun might be creepy alright but not much fun. Actually, anyone and everyone is a potential target of this fun-killing thing out there.
By now, the adults in the room, any room, anywhere, are well aware of what is going on. They know how long it has been going on. Some of the adults in whatever rooms they occupy are aghast at what is going on. And by now it is obvious why it is going on. Other adults are just fine with what’s going on. I’d assert those agreeable to what is happening are very much in the minority. But power corrupts, right? Today–October 31–just happens to be Halloween on this 282nd consecutive day of what’s been going on but should never have been allowed to start, let alone go on. And on...
Boys, girls, kids and kiddies, your parents and other adults who don’t at all agree with what is going on wish this were all a scary bedtime story. And maybe in some future, hopefully not too far away, it will serve as a spooky beddy-bye story told with great inflection, intonation and other animations of voice and body that all scary stories invite. Our current moment constitutes a troubling tale of monstrous behavior by a small but controlling adult world. It is a tale being told day by day and its ending has yet to be determined. It must and will end, eventually. In a future yet to be present, its entire story will be rendered as history and valuable lessons learned in its passing.
Therefore, children of a more innocent future era, by the end of the adult’s rendering of this freaky tale of terror, the monster will have been done away with, allowing for the young, impressionable mind to slip off to sleep, assured that Daddy and Mommy, and the grown-up world all around them, will always slay any monster that threatens them. And eventually, when they reach adulthood, they will decide for themselves what is truly monstrous and why they must not tolerate its ability to gain strength.
Better yet, they will develop a clear sense of right versus wrong and seek to prevent any monster from being created in the first place. Preventive vigilance. In so doing, their children will only have fictional monsters to behold, knowing that as an adult, anywhere, occupying any position in society, that is their essential and abiding responsibility.
As trick or treat day unfolds at this very moment, clearly, certain adults have not prevented a monster from being created. In fact, they have also allowed it to flourish and spread fear, at this point in any and all communities. It is a most frightful story playing out in real time. That it is Halloween doesn’t matter. The monster at hand doesn’t abide by any established norms or traditions. This monster will roam about until it is stopped, banished into exile, or completely destroyed.
Until then, one need not be a small child to feel afraid. Regardless, as a once very influential adult famously said during a different context of unsettling, dangerous developments “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”.
History, often in the worst ways, does repeat itself. But only if adults fail to learn those valuable lessons it offers. There is absolutely no excuse for this current monster to be real. Its presence is a shameful failure of responsibility to keep children, especially, safe. Any and all children. Anywhere and everywhere.
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Indeed. These are truly monstrous times foisted on so many innocents, including children. Would this were a cautionary tale, instead of reality.
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MESSAGE SUBJECT: Trump wastes money golfing & remodeling the Lincoln bathroom; won’t meet with Democrats to reopen the government; is losing the ability to speak English
Trump and the House refuse to meet with Democrats to negotiate the cuts in healthcare [Medicare and ACA] and the lack of funding for Medicaid so that the government can reopen. Our Orange criminal, however, has no problem wasting $60.7 million on his golf trips to Mar-a-lago. He has now gone there 13 times.
It’s high on Trump’s list to renovate the Lincoln bathroom in the White House. At the same time, it’s perfectly okay to not fund SNAP so people can starve.
From Air Force One, Trump posted: “I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!”
Federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills. Both are going to food banks that have run out of food, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and SNAP is at risk, but the Orange Felon47 celebrates his marble bathroom. The cost of the Lincoln Bathroom renovation in the White House has not been officially disclosed.
He lacks caring for anyone but himself.
[His mental deterioration shows in how he speaks.]
When he arrived in Florida, a reporter asked Trump about the shutdown and whether he would meet with Democrats despite the fact he has, until now, refused to, and has ordered congressional Republicans not to meet with Democrats either. “I’m always going to meet,” he said. “All they have to do is open up the country. Let them open up the country, and we’ll meet. We’ll meet very quickly. But they have to open up the country. It’s their fault, everything is their fault.”
How much will it take for his GOP sycophants in Congress to start caring about the American people and STOP kissing his feet, or his A**?
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