The Narcissistic Neanderthal

Like an archaic humanoid dinosaur
     you  plunder through life taking no prisoners,
             with your philosophical knuckles dragging on the ground.
You are a dying breed born of privilege and tenacious greed,
      tendering little in life other than your selfish need.
              What is it you seek in life other than your very personal comfort?
You never give a sideways glance to anyone with no chance of adding to your                                                       
      circumstance;  narrow minded cruelty subsidies the shutdown of any                               
               tenderness, allowing emotional banalities to supersede  integrity.
Your karmic debt is too cancerous to be free - 
      a lover of women among inept men, 
                but piteous fodder for contempt among strong women.
Neanderthal, you tossed love off the tongue like spit flung and stung my cheek with   
      runny disgust I turn away at your insipid attempt at manhood.  
                So many conquests, so little time.
The pittance you gave is but a trail of unwitting  shame,
       littered like Gretel's bread crumbs into a wilderness of pain...
                How sad you thought such a pittance could buy my soul.
I am no longer a member of your colonial servitude,
        and you are an inept fossil long past its prime.
                 From this moment, Narcissistic Neanderthal,

I am free.

Anna Lee Stedman

Or,  Ode To Donald John Trump

Trump Being Trump…

Woo Hoo! Add another item to Trump’s list of oops. Either this guy is stupider that many thought or else he is so delusional that he thinks because he’s “president” nothing can touch him.

AXIOS – One day after tweeting that he had “not spoken to Roger [Stone] in a long time,” President Trump called Stone after watching him on various news shows in the aftermath of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, per The New Yorker.

The reason for Trump’s call: Simply to tell Stone that he did a good job on television — not surprising, as Trump is known to value loyalty above all else.

But a wrinkle: Because Stone is a witness at the center of the federal government’s Russia investigation, this could compound potential obstruction of justice concerns for Trump. One of Obama’s White House ethics lawyers told The New Yorker: “Trump just added another item to the investigators’ checklist.”

Tic Toc, Tic Toc, Tic Toc…


Trump’s Infatuation With Dictators…

If the following article is not enough to make every red-blooded American patriot’s blood boil nothing will. Trump is a dangerous threat to our democratic republic and its ultimate survival. Should he survive and his agenda be fully implemented our representative democracy as we have none it will be gone

USA TODAY – President Trump makes more money when he embraces regimes that violate human rights. From the Philippines to China and Turkey to Saudi Arabia, the president’s adoration for authoritarian abusers is bad for those being oppressed but good for his wallet.

Staggering conflicts of interest that directly link Trump’s bank account to despots around the world are already transforming U.S. foreign policy. Trump is selling America’s moral authority to make more money by slapping TRUMP on shimmering new buildings.

Last week, a transcript leaked of a call between Trump and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Trump praised Duterte for the “unbelievable job” on dealing with “the drug problem.” He was referring to a state-sponsored murder campaign dressed up as an anti-drug initiative. Duterte’s goverment uses death squads to kill people in cold blood in the streets. An estimated 7,000 people have already been slaughtered. Most victims are poor. There is substantial evidence that the police often kill first, plant drugs on the victim second, and then falsely claim self-defense third.


Support For Impeachment Increses Following Trump’s Foreign Trip…

“If President Trump was hoping his foreign trip would shift the conversation away from scandals, he may be out of luck. Over the last week, support for beginning impeachment proceedings among voters rose from 38 percent to 43 percent.”

Morning Consult Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Kyle Dropp

Our Twitter in Chief and BLOTUS is having real difficultly improving his image and bolstering confidence in his ability to lead. As he continues to act like the man-child he is the percentage who now favor impeachment has increased.

With scandal enveloping his administration coupled with his inability to move forward with an agenda a majority of the American people can embrace his presidential legacy will likely rank at the very bottom.

Be sure to clink on the link and read Support for Trump impeachment rises.

Immigrants Bring Success…

Waves of Asian, African and Latino newcomers have filled jobs at pork, egg
and turkey plants where wages have fallen and work has grown more grueling.

The link above is a story about how immigrants from Asia, Mexico, and Africa have kept a small town in northwestern Iowa thriving while other rural towns in America have struggled. Immigration and the hard-working people it brings is a big reason why.

STORM LAKE, Iowa — When Dan Smith first went to work at the pork processing plant in Storm Lake in 1980, pretty much the only way to nab that kind of union job was to have a father, an uncle or a brother already there. The pay, he recalled, was $16 an hour, with benefits — enough to own a home, a couple of cars, a camper and a boat, while your wife stayed home with the children.

“It was the best-paying job you could get, 100 percent, if you were unskilled,” said Mr. Smith, now 66, who followed his father through the plant gates.

After nearly four decades at the plant, most of them as a forklift driver, Mr. Smith is retiring this month.

The union is long gone, and so are most of the white faces of men who once labored in the broiling heat of the killing floor and the icy chill of the production lines. What hasn’t changed much is Mr. Smith’s hourly wage, which is still about $16 an hour, the same as when he started 37 years ago…

The forces that have helped transform this snug lakeside town in northwestern Iowa and others like it during Mr. Smith’s working life have created a complex swirl of economic successes and hardships, optimism and unease.

Fierce global competition, agricultural automation and plant closures have left many rural towns struggling for survival. In areas stripped of the farm and union jobs that paid middle-class wages and tempted the next generation to stay put and raise a family, young people are more likely to move on to college or urban centers like Des Moines. Left behind are an aging population, abandoned storefronts and shrinking economic prospects.

Yet Storm Lake, hustled along by the relentless drive of manufacturers to cut labor costs and by the town’s grit to survive, is still growing. However clumsily at times, this four-square-mile patch has absorbed successive waves of immigrants and refugees — from Asia, from Mexico and Central America, and from Africa.

Please continue reading BELOW THE FOLD.