Thursday was just one of those days and I let it irritate me …. The estate sale had a sign up sheet at the gate that blocked entry to the property and 150 names were on it before things got going and the sale began . A small group of regulars banded together amidst those 150 people to socialize during the 1/2 hour wait along the roadside. I was pleased at how many of them sought me out to ask after the wife and say they hoped she’d be back soon.There we were all 150 crowded out there on the sidewalk and spilled out on the street when an SUV pulled up and the driver called out …
” Hey, what’s going on ?”
As I enjoy my own humor and not desiring any more competition for the sale items I said
” We’re protesting , we want our Government jobs back ” and off he drove with out a word but one of my fellow estatesaler’s in the crowd had something to say ….
” Government workers … fuck them, they’ve been screwing us for years ”
So that’s it really, isn’t it? The government employees are just the latest offered threat and objects used to instill fear, or to be feared, just one more thing to be unhappy about. I think it a shame we couldn’t have offered those Americans even some slight hint of respect instead of being informed they are no longer employed in an email. An email on a Saturday night for Chrissake and then be described as “really bad” people on national television. All in the name of making America great again and the need to scrape up enough cash to offer another large corporate tax break.
I left that sale to attend another and while waiting my turn at a busy 4 way stop sign I spied a guy erecting a sign on his lawn. First impulse was to groan as I thought we had finally gotten past all those political lawn signs… but wait … it was a hand painted Ukraine flag with big letters underneath … I STAND WITH UKRAINE … and he returned in kind when I gave him a toot and a hearty thumbs up. Ukraine. The country we’ve all just been told is to blame for it’s own brutal invasion as a way of making ourselves feel better as we stick a knife in her back. I got to thinking about that and how America has just finished wiping its ass after shitting on every country that has stood with us right or wrong and put soldiers on the ground with ours and flushed our honor down the toilet with it .
Now we have skinned knee’s and a foul taste in our mouths because our lips are wrapped around the cock of the leadership of a nation that has made every effort to harm us since before I was born. But that’s ok… isn’t it ? …. so long as it’s all in the effort of making America great… again. I came home after all that to find a plain white envelope in the mail box addressed to R. and my mispelled last name with a short note
” You should self deport ”
I’m not so sure what to make of that as it was addressed to me and not the wife and my immigrant status isn’t quite as obvious as hers. Perhaps it’s just a prank from someone I know or maybe an irate neighbor since I do live on a Maga street ….. or maybe it’s just someone trying to offer some very good advice
