“Spewers and Sound Bites” — Who Are We?

Crankeverend (CR) was sitting at his favorite coffee shop the other morning when his head hit the table because he was exhausted.  When CR recovered he had an epiphany:  America wasn’t going to H _ _ _ in a hand basket, America had reached its destination.  We have reached the toll booth at the end of the road, and now it is time to pay the toll taker….

The question we must ponder today is “Now What?”

There’s an empty chair on the Supreme Court, and the politicians in Washington DC are playing a huge game of “I’m taking my ball and going the H _ _ _ home.”  Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania politics, fully eight months into not having a budget, these politicians, along with the Governor, are playing the “I didn’t do it.  It wasn’t me it was him” game.  It gives you the sense they have all jumped into a bottomless pit thinking “It has to end somewhere, right?”  “Right?”

I see political ads with Mrs. Clinton barking like a dog — and the group Anonymous has hacked into Mr. Trump’s personal information hoping to “take him down”.  “Take him down?”  The majority of the Republican Party elites have been trying to do that for months, and yet his popularity soars.  I think they shouldn’t have cancelled the next Republican debate – I am sure Mr. Cruz would have loved to have a debate with himself.  “Mr. Cruz, why does no one like you?”  “Well I am glad someone has asked Mr. Cruz that question finally — if he were attending an 8th grade dance, even the other geeky boys wouldn’t want to stand with him, he is hated that much.”  “Now wait, Mr. Cruz, that is a complete mis-characterization of my unpopularity.  I have worked day and night isolating and alienating myself from everyone else in the “Inside Washington” political elites — but I guess I have gone too far — even my mother has denied being present at my birth.”  “Well Mr. Cruz, I think you have at least accomplished this one thing — Canada has called and wondered if we might build a wall on our border to keep us out.”

Ouch!  I thought maybe we had hit the bottom of that bottomless pit, but nothing yet.!

So, on we go sliding toward our own oblivion.

CR stopped by his local Tax Preparation lady and together we sat swapping stories about what “H _ _ _ ” their lives have been this past year.  It is amazing how misery can seep out to find so many people, in so many places, in so many ways — and there isn’t a candidate for POTUS that can supply a nice “sound bite”that will sooth the pain and suffering many in this country are feeling.

When one candidate said “I Don’t ‘Make Promises I Can’t Keep” — what they really meant is “I don’t plan to keep the promises I make”.  That would be more truthful, if you ask me, because who can keep any of the promises made on the campaign trail.  “I will build a wall, a beautiful wall, and make Mexico pay for it.”  That sounds good, to some people in this country, especially those that border with Mexico.  But really, who could keep that promise?  When the most recent past Secretary of State was asked if their email server was wiped clean before handing over emails to the Feds, they firmly stuck their tongue into their cheek and said “What, like with a cloth or something?”  Flippant?  Do you think?  No candidate for the POTUS is that stupid….none of them are.  But neither are we…….or, are we?

Anyway, as we shared our stories (the tax lady and CR) about this child who now has a probation officer, and that child pulled over for a DUI-D, we stopped talking for a moment, and then said, almost simultaneously, “Thank G-d we have faith.”  In other words, thank G-d we have a G-d who sustains us when our lives become a living “H _ _ _” — a bottomless pit.

Of all the hypocrites CR may be the greatest, but allow CR to make a point.  Against the backdrop of candidates barking like a dog and another accused of being a “ducker” — careful there, I did say “ducker” — one former candidate actually brought up G-d in his speech announcing the end of his candidacy.  He said “It is not G-d’s will that I become POTUS this term, or possibly any term.”  What?  Did CR hear someone mention G-d?  And he wasn’t arrested and thrown into the “bottomless pit”?