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We normally commute three or four days between our domicile on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and our country home in Kingston, New York. The trip is approximately two hours long, depending on traffic and weather conditions. Unlike the experience of tedious commutation to the office or some mundane venue, the northward drive to Kingston is not a dull albe necessary experience, but notably stimulating and thought-provoking.

The trip northward never fails to present a fascinating visual experience and unfailingly evokes musings concerning the seasonally changing beauty of Man’s verdant planetary home. We motor northward from the Palisades Parkway, situated above the dramatic Hudson River, throughout the entirety of the drive a copious gallery of trees (in all seasons), birds, on some occasions, deer (brown as well as gray mantled), and predatory hawks. in circular glides with the updrafts as well as other birds and small woodland critters. After proceeding for approximately an hour, we are treated to a view of nearby hills in various shades of verdancy, depending on the direction of the sunlight and the season, and soon thereafter, the gray appearance of distant mountains further northward.

As we venture further northward, we find ourselves in a species of reverence awe of the stark, colossal rock outcrops. through which, incredibly, the highway was, somehow, intruded; accompanying the balance of our automotive trek to New York State’s historic Capitol, the beautiful country ambience of Kingston.

The awe, beauty, and aesthetic pleasure derived from the weekly view of the natural environment is epitomized by the huge, dramatic rock outcrops seen on either side of the highway. We experience, in the contemplation of these mammoth natural phenomena more than their monumental size but, as well, enduring monuments to an autobiography of the Planet, but in conception, as the evincing some measure of relevant metaphysical comparisons the temporal the passage of human life.

Before the continuance of the preceding thematic comments, we would make some brief observations relative to the contextual rocks. Analogous to human beings, animal and plant life, rocks demonstrate an empirically natural diversity. Metamorphic rocks, by definition, are formed when existing rocks are transformed by heat and pressure; examples are marble and gneiss. Sedimentary rocks are formed from accumulated deposits of pre-existing earth materials, mud, rocks, and organisms, compacted by pressure, and evincing “strata. ” Examples are sandstone, shale, and limestone. Igneous rocks are formed from cooled v volcanic lava; examples are basalt and granite.

Of the natural compendium of rocks observed in our weekly two-hour commute, the most numerical, thematic and metaphysically stimulating are the huge, horizontally layered sedimentary variety. We imaginatively attempt to comprehend the enormity of time separating each of the many, uncountable layers of horizontal rock, the intervening development and evolution of our planet from pre-paleolithic to the stage of “Alexa” activated mechanical appliances.

The latter temporal perspective is of beneficial use in the emotional management of our personal angst generated by the contemporaneous and unprecedented governmental chaos that has descended upon our Democratic Republic.

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We have been responsibly obliged, by current events to comment on the ubiquitous amplitude of the villainy and abominable behavior of Donald Trump, in and out of office. Notwithstanding the empirical veracity of such observations, our sense of editorial balance urges us to render him credit for his many vasried innovative and creative accomplishments; independently “breaking new ground” as a singular American Chief Executive. Trump’s cutting edge, creative activities have given birth to a cornucopia of superceding perceptions of the American Presidency, such as have not seen in the Nation’s almost two centuries since its foundation. Such admirable governmental innovations are ubiquitously diverse and conceivably too numerous to cite in a mini=essay, however, we will endeavor to furnish an instructive and faithfully representative selection:

(1) No other president in almost two centuries of the Nation’s history has publically advertised to the American public the sale of sneakers and wristwatches.

(2) No other president has ever been romantically infatuated with the leader of the Nation’s extant adversaries, like Putin and Xi Jinping. Was King George ever an amorata of George Washington, or FDR a romantic suitor of Hirohito or Adolph Hitler?

(3) No other president in American History has been determined to guilty of sexual crimes by a Judge and Jury.

(4) Until the advent of the Trump Presidency, no prior president has been innovative enough to eschew the Constitution and conveniently ignore the Rule of Law and the established societal Moral Compass.

(5) No other American president has ever declared to the American public his intention to be a “dictator.”

(6) No other President has had the imagination to challenge the results of an American election nor, relevantly sponsor an insurrection against the Nation’s Capitol;

(7) No previous President to date has ever decreed a course of governmental “retribution” for his political opponents.

(8) No previous American president has engaged a non-elected civilian as a partner or co-president to share in the determination of governmental policy.

(9) No prior president has elected to cruelly and inhumanely slander and mistreat immigrants (even though it is notable that all three of his marriages have been to foreign immigrants).

(10) Donald Trump is the only president who singularly and unashamedly declared to the citizens of our Democratic Republic his desire to acquire the ownership of other sovereignties, viz., Greenland, Panama, and Canada.

In empirical reality, there is a veritably overfull dumpster of like Trump innovations and representative demonstrations of his singular talent for creative and uniquely ground-breaking capability; however, it is felt that the foregoing ten (10) listed items should suffice to sufficiently instruct potential critics of the verisimilitude of his understated merit.

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This writing extends the theme of #230, “SHAMELESS,” relating to Donald J. Trump’s demonstrable cruelty. His elimination of government agencies that protect human health, well-being, and the environment and provide food and medicine to the needy throughout the World, notably exemplifies the very pinnacle of cruelty.

For a brief time, in an effort at principled restraint, we were successful in the containment of reactive anguish and derivative shame by the diverting election to write on alternate themes, such as “MANDATORY SURGERY. # 233, and “SOLO SOCIETY,”#234. However, we find thast we are no longer to postpone the expression of our feelings of unmitigated rage at the recent heinous ac ts of Donald J. Trump under the false banner of “eliminating waste and fraud,” and, notably, by the cynical and outrageous dynamics of their implementation. We have also experienced profound disappointment and anguish at the impotence of the Democratic Party’s response.

The established mode of effecting policy changes mandates a prerequisite study and inquiry (usually, an open hearing) by the relevant Congressional Committee, followed by a resultant report to the legislature for statutory consideration. Notwithstanding our constitutionally appropriate precedent, Donald J. Trump’s autocratic, arbitrary, and, factually unsupported action (with the assistance of his non-elected, autistic -savant, “hit man,”) has, in orthodox Mousellini style, summarily dismissed many essential federal agencies, (together with their employees) upon his delusional and unsupported meme of “eliminating governmental fraud and abuse.” Such improperly arrogated autonomy makes appropriate the present expression of our feelings of unsuppressible outrage.

Imperially and presumptively bypassed by Trump are considerations of objective and pragmatic need and consequential negative outcome regarding the welfare of human life and society, and the Nation’s ultimate aspiration for improvement by his harmful dismissal of beneficially impactful agencies such as The United States Education Department,” the suicidal elimination of the CDC and the hazardous restraints imposed upon the National Health Agency, the NIH, the Nation’s Inspector Generals, encompassing societal damage relative to citizen health and welfare, such as disability, social security, school lunch programs, medicare and the like. As previously declared, such a draconian program is pathologically cruel and inarguably resultant in ubiquitous tragedy;

Equally dystopic to the nightmarish exercise is the arrogant, atavistic, and non-American exercise of Monarchical-style, unlimited authority, with no consideration given to the Constitution, its Separation of Powers, nor any other established procedural institution or historic safeguard against tyranny, Trump had publically declared his intention to be autocratic and has now demonstrated to the American public, that when it is in his neurotic interest, his systemic practice of serial mendacity can be temporarily ameliorated.

At this moment in our history, it is existentially determinative for mainstream America notably including its political representatives and officials, in sync with its domocracy- loving citizenry, to loudly voice their primal outrage and unshakeable opposition to the extant rape of our invaluable Republican Democracy by the fascistic acts of Trump and his complisant horde of loyal MAGA storm troopers.

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An Official Press Conference was convened last Wednesday at the Capital Executive Office, traditionally referred to as “The Oblique Office.” Present was the newly re-elected Chief -Executive, Denny J. Dumpster, his unelected sidekick, Feline Crust, and the usual members of the media (except the AP).

It had been leaked to the media by a federal civil servant two days before his shocking, unexpected summary dismissal by Crust), that the two had conferred for three days and that the Chief Executive, anxious to reveal his brilliant new plan, had requested that the meeting be scheduled at once. However, he was obliged to wait an extra day while members of the Official Cleaning Staff cleaned the copious ketchup stains from the drapes, and the spaghetti and pasta sauce, on the walls.

Despite the remaining ketchup stains and a small amount of spaghetti on the entrance door, President Dumpster, impatiently desirous of proving to the press (and the public) that his universal perception as incompetent was erroneous, directed that the Press Conference be convened “at once.”

When all had assembled in the (“mostly clean”) Oblique Office, Dumpster excitedly announced that he (and his smiling autistic savant) had devised a brilliant plan; in fact, a “panacea” (he, in candor, actually used the word, “answer”) to most of the Country’s problems. The “brilliant” solution would consist of the effectuation of the following: to trade one of the blue states, like Rhode Island, in exchange for Mexico. Dripping with salivary excitement, he explained that the incorporation of Mexico would, ipso facto, solve the Nation’s immigration dilemma since the transfer would legally make Mexicans American citizens and thereby avert the immigration problem. He also suggested that his private development company could build hotels and golf courses and would be able to profitably improve the impoverished Nation.

Several of the members of the media actually fainted. Then, one reporter commented that Mexico had historically owned a substantial portion of the Southwest until it lost the “Mexican-American War.”

After much responsive hiccuping and coughing, nevertheless, and -notably, in a pseudo-confident voice, the embarrassed President stated: let’s postpone the plan. America does not like “losers.”

The media rose and slowly filed out, much relieved, while carefully assisting their fainted colleagues from the historic chamber.

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Despite juxtaposing two words that can be seen as mutually contradictory, the present title is not oxymoronic but thematically editorial. Understandably, the adjective ” solo” means alone, while “society” represents living together in a community. Nevertheless, our present theme relates to the current inclination to elect to live singular or solitary lives.

We are not credentialed as sociologists; the observations articulated in this writing are exclusively based on our perceptions, information garnered from the television news media, newspapers, magazines, and nuanced experiences. Nevertheless, our sources of information are consistent in confirming our present thematic, social phenomenon.

It seems evident, that Man’s progress to modern humankind was catalyzed by Man’s choice to live in a community, mutually sharing the responsibilities necessary for survival and, thematically, the many benefits derived from interaction with others. The beneficial dynamics of societal interaction were stereotypically implicit in such communal living. However, Recently, salubrious social interaction, to his material detriment has become less common. .

Our information reveals a universal shift from traditional societal interaction to a more solitary, virtually reclusive lifestyle. As reported, there appear to be far fewer communal activities, joint undertakings, and socialization at parties and neighborhood barbeques, and lesser attendance at places of public assembly such as movie houses, theaters, restaurants, and other places of public assembly. Such adverse development was significantly exacerbated by the advent of the pandemic, causing many people to interact and be employed, virtually, from home rather than in the company of others by the prophylactic necessity to avoid human contact.

In recent years there appears to be a trend to singularity in which young adults, for example, are dedicating more time to personal self-improvement through regular attendance at the gym rather than socializing with others and apparently, marrying later. Concerns for financial success and physical fitness, have overtaken, those relative to the future of spouse and family.

We must confess to a lack of knowledge as to the etiologic history of this toxic societal condition; but do observe that its toxicity was exponentially catalyzed by the advent of the facile, but societally regressive “smartphone; rendering anachronistic, the vital societal dynamic of interactive, communication, The regressive trend is exemplified by the practice of young people engaging in video games on their hand-held appliances rather than read books and at dinner time, under the table, surreptitiously consulting their smartphones, for information or communication. We were non-plussed to observe that it is not uncommon for many young toddlers to be afforded smartphone technology.

The empirical sequelae of such toxic and societally disabling trend to insular, non-social behavior are ubiquitously harmful to the individual psyche, in addition to its impactful challenge to the essential dynamics of human society. We have often declared that the human persona and self-image are empirically created from the experienced reactions of other people with whom we have social commerce. It has been our often-stated belief that the exponential increase in depression and anxiety of the young generation has been due to the loss of stable identity, resulting from the relegation of normal interaction to the limited contact, afforded by society’s use of hand-held electronic digital messaging. .

Self-absorption and personal insularity are not empirical prerequisites for humanistic empathy, the contemplation of one’s inner self nor the aspiration to understand the world scene. Socrates’ admonition to Mankind to: “Know thyself,” manifestly becomes an impossible goal.

Mankind has often experienced the tragic impact of human apathy. The wise and eloquent holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel, memorably declared: “The opposite of love, is not hate, it is indifference.”

For some time, we had agonized over the dilemma: ” How could a demonstrably visible ogre, like Donald Trump, possibly be elected by the American voters? Our ultimate answer appears to be: by the numerical combination of the stereotypical, populist underbelly of the Nation, supplemented, (thematically) by the current, growing population of the singular, reductively, self-interested citizenry.,

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America celebrates its annual National Holiday, “President’s Day,” perennially, on the third Sunday of February. This, holiday honoring past America’s Presidents was created shortly after the decease of President George Washington. Its annual observance, is in essence, a historical statement of appreciation for Presidential service to the Nation. It is additionally, an articulated statement of fundamental rectitude and of the humanism of the American constitutional ‘s systemic assurance of life, liberty, and equality. The history of much of the World has, indeed. been otherwise, and the Founders of Our Nation succeeded in their experimental creation of a Nation run by a Chief Executive, selected by the People rather than by a hereditary Monarch, and/or an Established Religious Authority

.In our view, the event functionally serves as an enduring declaration that success is empirically possible and enduring in a polity dedicated to being “by and for the people.” The historic, popularly elected Chief Executives, subscribing to that foundational principle of governance are appropriately deserving of such Nationally respectful memory, celebratory gratitude, and beneficial recognition.

We would include as deserving of the highest praise, and historical esteem, such venerable National leaders as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklyn D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Barack Obama. In empirical contrast, we consider the following past Presidents, by contrast, as rather less deservant of kudos, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, and George Bush, Jr. President Donald J. Trump, notably, is deservant of separate treatment, as set forth below.

Regarding the category of American Presidents, less deserving of veneration we would choose to cite, cite Andrew Jackson who promulgated the shameful and inhumane “Indian Act,” (“Trail of Tears”), Andrew Johnson, whose wrongful actions during the Reconstruction Period, justly earned him Presidential impeachment and Richard Nixon whose illegal and unAmerican crimes, necessitated his removal and fortuitous pardon. Nevertheless, we have been able to tolerate their inclusion among the honorable past Presidents on the eponymous holiday. Not so with Donald J. Trump, the context of whose singular persona and despicable level of Presidential service, we, thematically request, be appropriately excised from the list of Chief Executives, honored on Presidents’ Day. We will elucidate.

Of our designated category of “less deserving of veneration,” only Trump was and is guilty of undermining the existential features of our Nation’s democracy, its constitution, and its system of laws, perversely including, its definitional existence as a democracy by undermining its vote, together with his unashamed repudiation of societally basic principles of moral behavior. His empirical resume would reveal a disgracefully errant American President, personified by anti-democratic rule, distaste for the societal moral compass, publically demonstrated treasonous behavior, and memorably repeated declarations of intent to ” be a dictator.”

The thoughtless, routine inclusion of Donald J. Trump among America’s Holiday roster of honored past Presidents, would be inappropriate and constitute holiday an effective pollution of the ritual Memorial, honoring America’s Presidential past. His name should be beneficially and responsibly excised from our (democratic) Nation’s roster of venerable or democratically acceptable, holiday-celebrated Chief Executives.

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Before Vladimir Putin’s atavistic, and illegal assault on the democratic Nation of Ukraine (2022), there has been no significant war since the Second World War. Russia’s unprovoked attack was an inarguable and egregious articulation of Russia’s autocratic Premier, Vladimir Putin’s assertion of his delusional Ceasar-like power, dedicated to the forceful reprise of the USSR, presumably. encouraged by his easy grab of Ukraine’s Crimea and the Donbas.

In concert with most right-thinking inhabitants of the Planet, we are outraged at the convening of the “Peace Conference” at which Donald Trump’s “Bro-Mate,” and the aggressor, Vladimir Putin, will be represented, but, bizarrely and unjustifiably, without the rational and fair representation of the victim, Ukraine’s democratic President, Vladimir Zelinsky.

Nevertheless, such justified outrage is somewhat ameliorated in consideration of the starkly evident contrast between the respective position of the publically embarrassed and deprecated, would-be “Alexander the Great,” Vladimir Putin, and the contrasting Vladimir i.e., Ukraine’s President. Zelensky.

Putin, in his ego-delusional, publically broadcasted assertion that Ukraine would be summarily defeated in three days, has, nevertheless, expended billions of dollars and sacrificed hundreds of thousands of soldiers in his egomaniacal venture, which, has empirically, lasted more than three years.

It will be recalled that said delusional, self-identified Caesar, has famously broadcast photos of himself, heroically posed, in gladiator fashion, riding a horse, bare-chested. In demonstrated reality, he is a faux strongman, under the existential control of a coarse cadre of Russian mafia, composed of rich oligarchs, and a leader who is empirically able to remain in power by poisoning and imprisoning his detractors,

By bright contrast, President Vladimir Zelensky, democratically elected by the popular vote of the people of Ukraine, has further elevated and endeared himself to his Nation and the free world by his dignified demonstration of steadfast courage and patriotism. [It is revealing that, among the propagandic justifications of Putin for his egregious aggression, was his meme that Ukraine is a “fascist” State since its Vladimir is Jewish; irrefutably, not a historically empirical choice of fascism].

We adamantly disapprove of the Trump administration’s decision to convene a dystopic peace conference in the absence of one of the parties involved in the contextual war (as we are ineluctably, non-plussed and concerned about all matters, Trumpian), but we can glean a bit of satisfaction in the knowledge that the egotistic Putin, with the assistance of our disreputable Chief Executive, is desperately attempting, and will predictably fail, to save face.

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With the reader’s anticipated permission, we would like to relate a personal experience that may be of interest.

Last evening, following our routine viewing of the [MSNBC] televised news, we went to bed with a momentarily unspecific feeling of relief. After several thoughtful moments under the comfortable quilt, we identified the generalized disposition as a measure of relief and discernable joy.

It would appear that inveterate “bloggers” suffer from a PTSD-like malady in which they search for a singular expressive metaphor to acceptably and precisely express their intended meaning. Despite a sense of generalized optimism, we found ourselves experiencing a somewhat restless night in the latter ruminative endeavor; there seemed to be a plethora of expressive choices causing us much consternation in the choice of metaphor which seemed the most appropriate and accurate.

These available metaphors included: “The worm has turned,” ” “The sun has set,” The seismic meters are evincing a discernable tremor,” “The fog has lifted,” “The storm has abated,” “The wind has shifted,” “The fever has broken,””The sea has calmed,” “The fire has been extinguished,” “The light of reason has prevailed,” The fog has lifted,” ” The sea has calmed,” “The flood has receded.” “The road has turned,” “The ship has arrived,” ” The cat is out of the bag,” “Daylight has arrived,” ” The ancient conundrum has been solved,” ” The dark night has dawned” “The chickens have come home to roost,” ” The horse is out of the barn,” “The bright light of reason has illuminated the darkness of ignorance,” “The roadblock has been removed,” “The way has been cleared.” “The ducks are in a row,” ” Reason has prevailed,” ” The parties have seen the light,” “Peace has been restored,” “The caser has been solved,” ” The opponents have amicably. reconciled,” ” There has been a meeting of the minds,” “The path of reason has been found,” and, incredibly, a surfeit of more metaphorical choices. Who said that the plight of the dedicated blogger was easy?

After much tossing and turning, we, mercifully, reached a personally acceptable choice: viz., “And the Flag was Still There” from the “Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key, who after the intense British bombardment of Fort McHenry in 1812, observed the miraculous survival of the American flag.

What we saw that night on the news media was the beginning of an ineluctable and systemic, non-partisan objection to the autocratic “wrecking ball” [metaphor} taken by Donald Trump and his bizarre, unelected sorcerer’s apprentice {another metaphor] to the American democratic and constitutional way of life; we are optimistically looking forward to its seismic [ditto] growth in intensity.

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N.B. errata, # 224 “Gaza” [1] The number of casualties on Nov. 7 was approximately half the number indicated, [2] The Balfour declaration regarding the State of Israel was years before its founding in1948,

We have configured the title of this writing in the style of an ersatz-algebraic formula to highlight our principal theme, “Cruelty.” Much is known and millions of words have been expended on the subject of the reprehensible traits of Donald Trump, viz., his serial mendacity, lack of moral compass, ignorance and incapability, egocentrism, numerous prejudices, criminality, denigration of the American constitution, of the media, and institutions of enlightenment. He has proudly declared, and is currently making good on, his brash public declarations to be an autocrat, and thereby, a despoiler of the unique and desirable American way of life.

What strangely appears to be unstated, is Trump’s innate, rank cruelty. The same may be observed in his many socially repugnant acts of physical and articulate abuse of women, his selfish and defamatory xenophobia, and his repeated and malignant calumny of his political opponents. His opprobrious, publicly stated reference to the military dead at Arlington Cemetary as “suckers” and “losers was characteristic of his deplorable cruel insensitivity. [“What was in it for them?”]. Can anyone, possibly, in fathom the depth of despair experienced by the families of the young sons and daughters who prematurely lost their lives in service to the Nation? The draft-dodging (“bone spur”) orange-haired speaker apparently lacks any such human capacity. Further, his ubiquitous opposition to government programs of assistance to the disabled and needy, and his autocratic denial and disparagement of the democratic definitional vote, taken together would inarguably be determinative that it is he, who is appropriately entitled to the gold medal of ” loser.”

We were initially introduced to Trump’s excessive, innate, and despicable cruelty by an event, viewed on public television, that occurred during his first (twice-impeached) term. Donald Trump, on that shockingly revealing occasion, was being routinely interviewed on public television. It seems that one of the members of the media, despite being challenged by the horrendous shaking symptoms of cerebral palsy was posing a routine question to the President, when an event occurred that permanently cemented our opinion that Donald Trump empirically deserves the attribution of a degenerate persona. Our orange-haired, egotistic, and consummately sadistic protagonist, rather than routinely, respond to the question, in his dismayed presence, on public television, performed a clownish and despicable parody, voice and action, of the courageous reporter’s display of the stereotypical symptoms of palsy. This event irreversibly sealed our feelings of loathing and detestation of Trump and his cruelly displayed degenerate persona.

In the very first month of Trump’s bizarrely attained, second term, we are enabled, if necessary, to confirm our factual discernment of Donald Trump’s, innate and eternal practice of despicable cruelty. In his opprobrious reprise, as Chief Executive, Trump acquired “a partner in cruelty, a “sorcerer’s apprentice,” in the person of an impish, autistic-savant known as Elon Musk, reputed to be the richest man on the planet.

We would interrupt the further progress of our writing to express an alternate, but unquestionably related matter. As regular viewers of public television news programs and selected movies, we have been painfully subject to empirically disturbing messages demonstrating heartrending views of emaciated children and adults, the unfortunate residents of third-world countries like Ethiopia and Sudan, mercilessly suffering pain, sickness, and premature death from starvation, lack of water and sublime misery.

We had experienced some feeling of relief by the knowledge that organizations like USAID had been engaged in the compassionate activities of supplying desperately needed food and medicine to such unfortunate people in the World; the latter, an unfailingly appropriate expression of empathy and plain morality by the richest Nation in the World,

Trump, with the assistance of his similarly pathological, and billionaire, “Sorcerer’s Apprentice, has announced the heartlessly cruel elimination of the existential and empathic services of USAID. This is an action that somehow may conceivably, be acceptable to that criminally insensitive duo but unquestionably unthinkable by any mainstream human being with normal societal upbringing. This revolting level of cruelty would be seen as cruelly unimaginable for the traditional American citizen, but systemically consistent with the perverse personas of Trump and his unelected sidekick, the eternally smiling, impish Elon.

The foregoing shameful scenario is augmented by the sadistic duo’s reductively ignorant wrecking ball destruction of needed federal agencies, including the U.S. Education Department, the limitation or elimination of federally funded institutions of medical research, and many other ubiquitous programs of needed federal assistance. according to their reductive, cruel, and delusional ideation of “cutting waste and unnecessary expense.” The utter disregard for the needs of our Nation and the cruel, summary discharge of a copious number of federal civil servants is foolhardy and demonstrably cruel.

It is but little relief to recognize that the foolishly inspired MAGA voters will likewise be the unfortunate beneficiaries of such reprehensible cruelty.

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The manifestly unjust conduct of the peace conference concerning Russia’s atavistic and cynical aggression against Ukraine, which, reportedly includes the wrongdoing aggressor, Russia, but not including the victim, (the democratic Nation ) of Ukraine, seemed to conjure up analogous feelings of injustice, regarding certain perceptions of the recent Hamas-Isreali conflict. The acrid smoke and fire of the latter, by now, seems to have cleared up sufficiently to be enabled to reprise the subject objectively and analytically,

The following brief review of the relevant history should help consider the context of the matter:

After the Ottoman War, England was awarded the Middle East territory, of Palestine viz., “The British Mandate. When The League of Nations decided to establish a homeland for the World’s displaced Jewish people the territory of the British Mandate, was divided in two; one for the Palestinian Arabic people, the other for the refugee Jews. In 1948, the League issued the historic “Balfour Declaration,” recognizing a State of Isreal, relative to the part previously designated for the Jewish People. Within merely hours, a joint force of Arabic Nations militarily attacked the newly designated Jewish State, the attackers having been fully armed and trained by the British (“The Arab League.”), The untrained, poorly armed, besieged Isreal, somehow emerged victorious. However, later decades evinced many military attacks against the Hebrew Nation which were repelled. The scripture of Islam, unfortunately, contains a specific direction (“jihad”) to eradicate the Jews.

Israel decided, at some point, to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, thereafter exclusively occupied by the Palestinian People. It came to pass that the militant group, “Hamas,” internationally recognized by most non-Arabic Nations, as a “Terrorist Organization\ secured the governance of Gaza. It was this terrorist group, plus certain Palestinians that notoriously attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, on the Hebrew holiday of “Simchat Torah.”

Reports indicate that the attack was preceded by substantial rocket fire and that the attackers employed hand-held gliders, powered by trucks. in their surprise assault. Twenty-five hundred celebrating Israelis were killed and 251 were kidnapped; the latter, constituting all ages, from toddlers to old people. The kidnapped hostages were dragged, along with the retreating terrorists, to Hamas strongholds; well-supplied military tunnels tactically constructed under Gaza hospitals and other places of public assembly. This cynical tactic was part of a plan to cause Isreal’s predictable retributive action to be necessarily wreaked against such civilian targets thereby, pathologically, using the innocent: Palestinian public as “shields” and, importantly, incurring Universal criticism of Israel for evident cruelty in egregiously bombing hospitals and public place,

Unfortunately, these evilly-inspired tactics worked. The media reported outrage, as foreseen, on an international scale against Isreal for alleged inhumanity, such vehement outrage conspicuous on American College Campuses, which, in many instances included the vehement charge of “Genocide.”

The latter charge was sophomoric and as reported, encouraged by outside agitators. In fact, “Genocide,” is definitionally and legally applicable to an attempt to eradicate a people; as in the cases of Turkey-Armenia, Tutu v, Tutsi, Serbian and Croatian, and, perhaps thematically more relevant, Nazi Germany against the Jews. If the charge of genocide is to be rationally and empirically raised, the Hamas attack was irrefutably, motivated by the articulated desire to eradicate Israel and its Jewish population.

It is additionally notable that the violent attack by Hamas was not a”military” matter. The universally accepted, unwritten strictures of military warfare provide that civilian casualties, if possible, are to be avoided. The October 7th surprise attack by Hamas was, by factual contrast, directed against civilians; of every age, from babies to the elderly, engaged in a holiday celebration, and furthermore evinced, torture, rape, dismemberment, and a myriad of foul acts of every hateful nature.

It may be observed that “The Jews” have throughout history, been falsely accused of the commission of all manner of ubiquitous turpitude, poisoning the wells, for poor harvest of crops, for killing Christian babies for their blood, as an ingredient in Passover win, for various plagues and other outbreaks of human suffering, for seeking World Control by the conspiracy of prominent Jewish Bankers, and more recently, for ” raining rockets down on Earth (Marjorie Taylor Green).

Notwithstanding the empirical and historical, absurdity of any conceivable accusation that the post-holocaust, Jewish People are guilty of “Genocide,” it is our information that they do, affirmatively, confess full responsibility for Jonas Salk, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Leonard Berstein, bagels, and Lox, great corned beef, and the finest artesian chicken soup in the Solar System.

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