Parallels

Parallels

by MichelleMcHatton

Sometimes being under the weather has its advantages.  Such as catching up on some reading.

About two weeks ago I began reading Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief”.  I’m not through reading it yet but there is a scene in the story that has resonated with me since I read it, which I want to share here.

For anyone not familiar with the subject matter of “The Book Thief”, it revolves around a young girl living in Nazi Germany.  The scene I wish to share is on page 105.  It is 1940 and the Hubermann family has gathered for the yearly celebration of Hitler’s birthday.  The characters involved are Hans Hubermann (the father), Hans Junior (his adult son) and Liesel, the young girl.  Understand that Hans Junior is a Nazi and his father is not.

“You’ve never cared about this country,” said Hans Junior.  “Not enough, anyway.”

Papa’s eyes started corroding.  It did not stop Hans Junior.  He looked now for some reason at the girl.  With her three books standing upright on the table, as if in conversation, Liesel was silently mouthing the words as she read from one of them.  “And what trash is this girl reading?  She should be reading ‘Mein Kampf’“.

Liesel looked up.

“Don’t worry, Liesel,” Papa said.  “Just keep reading.  He doesn’t know what he’s saying.”

But Hans Junior wasn’t finished.  He stepped closer and said, “You’re either for the Fuhrer or against him–and I can see that you’re against him.  You always have been.”  Liesel watched Hans Junior in the face, fixated on the thinness of his lips and the rocky line of his bottom teeth.  “It’s pathetic–how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great.”

After I read this scene it took me two days to get back to reading the book.

The parallels between Nazi Germany and America in 2017 in this scene alone struck me.  “You’re either for him or against him”.  If I had a dollar for each time someone has said that phrase to me in 2017, I’d be sitting on a beach somewhere reading this book.  “…a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great”.  Sounds familiar.

What “cleaning out the garbage…to make itself great” meant in Nazi Germany under ASSHOLE Hitler:  Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, Jehovah Witnesses, clergy, Communists, Socialists, prostitutes, drunks, disabled, gays and anyone else they felt wasn’t worthy.

What “cleaning out the garbage…to make itself great–again” means in America 2017 under ASSHOLE Trump:  Muslims, disabled, gays, transgenders, women, refugees, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, the NFL, generally people of any color, the DREAMers, climate change, NATO, anyone who causes a “problem” for him (Comey, Yates, etc.) and anyone who doesn’t agree with what he says or wants.  Especially on Twitter.

Considering this book was published twelve years ago, maybe the author is psychic.  Or are there truly that many parallels between the ASSHOLE who once ruled and ruined Germany and the ASSHOLE who is now trying to rule and ruin America?

The House

The House

by MichelleMcHatton

Imagine you just purchased your dream home.  You’ve been working for this all your life.  You’ve saved, you’ve done all your homework and you found the perfect home for you and your family.

The house isn’t brand new.  In fact, it’s almost twenty years old.  The realtor called it a “starter home”.  It does need some work, mainly a little TLC.  Each room could use a paint job, probably even some wallpaper.  The carpets are worn in each room.  The driveway needs repaving.  The yard needs mowing and is in dire need of serious landscaping.  The basement is solid.  No cracks in the foundation.  No water.  The home inspector said the support beams are in “fantastic shape”.  No signs of termites or other pests.  The house is far from perfect but you love it anyway and you know in time you will turn it into the home you’ve always wanted.

The house is very habitable so your family moves in.  You can survive living with some areas that could use updates.  Updates are always good.  The important thing is you have a solid foundation.  Because without that you can’t follow through with anything else.  At least you’re not starting from scratch.

This may be a poor analogy but it’s one I’m using to demonstrate what Congress had and decided not to use.  They really could’ve made it very easy for themselves.  They had a solid base to work with but they weren’t satisfied with that.  Instead they decided to gut the whole “house”, make it difficult on themselves and start from scratch.  All they had to do was keep the base and do some updates over time.  Now they’re stuck with a mess and they don’t know what to do with it.  Nor do they care because if they’re left with a mess of a “house”, they can easily just leave it for someone else to clean up.

Those “someones” are roughly 23 million Americans.

So much for our dream home…

 

 

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone

You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone

by MichelleMcHatton

 

 

Originally posted in July of this year.  Worth repeating with bullshit healthcare repeal part two happening.

 

I’ve come to the conclusion that whatever happens with the whole healthcare fiasco happens.

As crazy as it sounds, it actually would be great if this bullshit passed.   You know why?  Because everything happens for a reason.

  1.  First of all, if this shit bill passes it’s going to be a while before it actually goes into effect.  If they think otherwise, then things will be really interesting.
  2. Something nobody has mentioned (except Senator Angus King from Maine and my husband), is how this is going to effect everyone.  I don’t mean the people who need healthcare.  I’m talking about the healthcare workers.  I’m talking about the pharmaceuticals.  Does anyone know how huge the medical field is?  How many hospitals, doctors, nurses, administrative people, pharmacists this bill will affect?  Even nursing homes and rehab facilities.  Think about it.  If nobody can afford to have health insurance, how will any of these medical facilities remain in business?  Watch Senator King explain it all here to the hosts of ASSHOLE’S favorite MSNBC show “Morning Joe.

 

 

3.  Here’s the great part.  You know how ASSHOLE keeps pointing the finger at Obama blaming him for this “awful” healthcare that we have?  You know, the          Affordable Care Act?  Well, if this new shit healthcare Congress came up with gets passed and ASSHOLE signs it, guess what?  HE CAN NO LONGER BLAME OBAMA FOR SHIT HEALTHCARE!  He won’t even be able to blame Turtleface McConnell BECAUSE ASSHOLE’S name will be on the bill!  So, you know what THAT means?  WE can point the finger at ASSHOLE and he will be the only one to blame.

4.  Once Congress gets sick of the mess they created and ASSHOLE signed off on, along with all the chaos it has caused, they don’t even need ASSHOLE to repeal the shit bill and replace it back with–you guessed it–OBAMACARE!

5.  Here’s the best part:  after all this shit has been done and gone and the ACA is back in effect, people (at least the intelligent ones) will realize that although the ACA may not be perfect, it’s a hell of a lot better than what the greedy GOP assholes stuck us with.

6.  It will finally be realized that–DUH!–ACA needs to be revised, not repealed.

Remember:  you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

I Can’t Be The Only One

I Can’t Be The Only One

by MichelleMcHatton

I can’t be the only one who truly believes ASSHOLE has dementia, can I?

There have been so many clues it should be obvious to all of us.

First of all, who doesn’t think it’s odd that Trumpette (Ivanka) seems to appear out of nowhere wherever ASSHOLE happens to be.  She attends meetings she has no business being at (the G20 and most recently ASSHOLE’S debt ceiling meeting with members of the House and Senate).  She even just “popped in” on a NYT interview and brought her kid along.  Nobody seems to know what her role in the White House is.  Some say she’s ASSHOLE’S “personal assistant”.  To many that means “caregiver”.

Aside from the fact that he is about as coherent as a drunken sailor when he speaks, repeats himself constantly (count how many “verys” he says in the first clip of the video below) and can’t read papers or concentrate long (some claim he doesn’t even know how to read), take a look at the many other detailed incidents that more than certainly point to dementia:

 

Wouldn’t it be appropriate for the “President” to be in on the briefing?  Maybe there’s a good reason why he wasn’t in on it.  Possibly because he had no clue what was going on? Is he sleeping under that damn hat?

 

 

Per the journalist ASSHOLE was allegedly sleeping.  Could be.  Or maybe he was just in a dementia daze.  If it weren’t for May, he’d probably still be sitting there!

 

 

My favorite one from this video is when he misses the fucking car!  If it were a snake it would’ve bit him!

We could take a few other things into consideration in these situations.  We all know ASSHOLE is far from being the brightest bulb in the pack.  But to miss a huge limo right in front of you? There is also the possibility he’s doing drugs.  It is well-known that he likes to “shoot the snow” once in a while.  More than likely it is dementia.  If you compare a current video of him talking to one of him talking thirty years ago, there is quite a difference.

We may never know.  For now what we do know is that there is a lot not right in ASSHOLEland.