MPaulamrams writers blog: Congenial-speak #27

Friday, June 9, 2017

Congenial-speak #27

Check-mate

He did not tweet during the testimony. He let his lawyer retort as Comey outlined his odd behavior. The POTUS asked for loyalty from a man with a ten year term, too long in dogged terms to be peeking from scarves, from blindfolds to see how the job is done. June 8, 2017 the fourth POTUS to head for impeachment squirmed in his WH bunker. I picture Bannon and Prebis tossing Trump's phone in a game of keep-away. In the oval office it sails over his head, past the grandfather clock by the door which is actually an often mistaken Mike Pence. The VP does not intervene, likely thinking Trump's job soon will be his.

I visited the nation's capitol once. My take-away was that the closer one gets to the seat of government the less efficient things are, the more waiting time there will be for anything; to go to the theater, to get in the zoo, to. . . get rid of a POTUS. Unlike Nixon who agonized over how to best cover up Watergate, and then to cover up the attempts to cover up, all the while being crucified for grandstanding on a war, Trump took another approach. He simply let the cards fall as they pleased—his House of Cards—around his in Trump world. He admitted his motives (see Lester Holt) freely with not much of a pretense.

The rookie

Paul Ryan looks smarter than that. I always saw him valiantly striving for that coveted inclusion as an “adult in the room” in Liealot. So after the hearings he rushes to his boss's defense, claiming he was just new to D.C. and did not fully understand spacial relationships. Is this for real? The man is the president. To preside over anything implies a fundamental under standing of its workings, at the very least. Is the Speaker of the House really asking this tribunal to cut a NY businessman, who rose to the presidency of America by celebrity status, some slack. He wants everyone to ease off on the new guy who happens to have the awesome responsibility of placing thousands in life or death situations? I'd expect as much from that young robotic Hitler youth type Miller.

Hope for a slippery slope

The Chinese checker game just morphed. It became the chess game most presidents begin playing. I think yesterday was the check-mate move. All the king's horses, all his rooks and bishops are gone. His queen, Speaker Ryan, I'd say blew his credibility yesterday with the pathetic aforementioned defense. In a mixed metaphor, Trump dared to play ball in the biggest league of all with no bat. My hope is that the prosecution will be cumulative, that it will once again be “all the president's men” and Pence, Ryan, Bannon, Flynn—any one who conspired to aid in the culmination of obstruction of justice (or their own high crimes or misdemeanors) will crash and burn. I figure, at the rate molasses flows in D.C., a verdict will be reached around holiday time. Seeing all involved go to jail would be the best gift America ever received.

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To the Front of the Bus: Movement toward a fair Democracy- review

I thoroughly enjoyed To the Front of the Bus, a must read for the politically curious and anyone who is paying attention to our current state of the country......who we as a nation, and how we got here. As someone who is not well versed in U.S. history, I found Amram's book refreshingly easy to read, the sort of book that can be fodder for discussion for the political novice or political savvy----there is something for everyone on these pages. The "Author's Note" and "Afterword" bookend the social movements which are humanely detailed in the book, and provide moving context for the how the political is always personal. In his latest book, Amram has expanded on his previous Ten Years and Change: a Liberal Boyhood in Minnesota (another excellent read), describing the struggle for equality which has consumed our nation since it's inception. What is most interesting is how Amram seamlessly weaves historical and current events, tying the two together in an effortless read that belies the painful sacrifice and struggle for human rights that continue to this day. There is an incredible amount of research contained here. I often find historical/political non-fiction interesting, but too dry for me personally to get through. To the Front of the Bus is the opposite reading experience, as this book is a compulsively readable page-turner, balancing well documented fact with personal and societal ramifications. I wish I could order a copy for every high school and college classroom in the country, as the truth telling of the "movement toward a fair democracy" is important. Thanks to Michael Amram for his words, which are an inspiring call to action for each one of us to use our voting power wisely and not squander our political and social power. Highly recommend.

Premise of Bus

There is a bus, careening through history, through decades of people moving, being transferred toward a fair Democracy. Like attaining Democracy, seeing it work, reaping its sporadic benefits, a bus stops and continues on, each time furthering a majority, growing stronger. But it also wanes as people are let out, and an interminable cycle of an unfulfilled Democracy (bus) ensues. In To the Front of the Bus: Movement toward a Fair Democracy bus is a metaphor as a method of movement, of protest (freedom rides). It speaks of the forced and willful movements of people throughout history, from the slave trade to the Native Americans' “trail of tears,” to the “great migration,” to the current deportation of immigrants. Bus is used in the literal sense of black Americans' ascension to the front, or anywhere they choose, on buses.

To the Front of the Bus: Movement toward a Fair Democracy follows the transports of three major groups who were denied basic rights as Americans. Their evolutions, their respective revolutions' order was left to be written in history as having been subconsciously prioritized. It was pre-destined, each having made a fluent transition, a natural selection, a humanely appropriate ascension, to the next. First came the removal of chains, the freeing of feet and minds, to fighting a Civil War and decades to win civil rights. Then came the women in their defined movements through decades for suffrage and equal rights. Time had come to pass. The abrogations of blacks and women's injustices readied the minds and streets for the disabled. Both cleared the way (as people on buses often do), expanded human consciousness enough, removed guilt of oppressing the prior groups enough, for the disabled to come out of the institutions and almshouses, to be accepted in society, to speak out for certain rights, and to be able to sit to the front of the bus.

To the front of the Bus: Movement Toward a Fair Democracy

“To the front of the Bus: movement toward a fair democracy follows the transports
of three major groups who were denied basic rights as Americans.
Their evolution, their respective revolutions' order was left to be
written in history as having been subconsciously prioritized. It was
pre-destined, each having made a fluent transition, a natural
selection, a humanely appropriate ascension, to the next. First came
the removal of chains, the freeing of feet and minds, to fighting a
Civil War and decades to win civil rights. Then came the women in
their defined movements through decades for suffrage and equal
rights. Time had come to pass. The abrogation of blacks and women's
injustices readied the minds and streets for the disabled. Both
cleared the way (as people on buses often do), expanded human
consciousness enough, removed guilt of oppressing the prior groups
enough, for the disabled to come out of the institutions and
almshouses, to be accepted in society, to speak out for certain
rights, and to be able to sit to the front of the bus.”

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Congenial-speak #27

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