Remember that final scene in the 1956 movie “The Bad Seed” starring this little angel, Patty McCormack? After her mother realized her darling daughter was a pint-sized psychopath, she tried to snuff out the kid’s life and her own with a handful of sleeping pills. But she failed, and while she languished in the hospital, little Rhoda was sent home. And one stormy night after everyone was asleep, she put on her raincoat and snuck out of the house.
Rhoda was headed back to the lake where she drowned her schoolmate Claude at the start of the picture. She wanted to retrieve his penmanship medal, presumably in the shallow end of the water.
Well, you know how girls are about jewelry… just kidding! This kid’s a Bad Seed.
Call it what you will—karma, God, Mother Nature, the 1950s Hollywood Morals Code—but a lightning bolt comes ripping down from the sky and blasts this monster to smithereens. Good riddance!
That isn’t how things ended in the book, but in 1950s Hollywood, evil was not permitted to win in the end. Good must prevail.
And now, in 2025… if only real life were just a movie.
In this terrifying sequel, a pathological liar convicted of 34 felonies convinces a slim majority of US voters to put him back into the White House.
Better to have a “technically white” dictator than a black woman president in charge. Didn’t the Dems know what they were dealing with? Sadly, no.
True to form, 10 days after taking office this walking cancer rescinds the former president’s drug pricing reforms for Medicare & Medicaid patients—and insulin prices go from $6 to $80.00 again. Wait, he’s just gettng started.
With the help of a car & rocket billionaire with delusions of infinite power, the two begin dismantling democracy as we know it. His followers, in denial of the fact that their leader is determined to make life more difficult for them, cheer him on!
There’s one hopeful scene where the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania takes this crud administration to court for cutting off $2.1 billion dollars in Federal funding to his state, and WINS IT ALL BACK.
(That really did happen, you know. Just a couple days ago in my state. Thank you Governor Shapiro.)
As this shitshow continues, the Democrats (and much of the world) watch in disbelief as a president of a war-ravaged nation is invited to the White House, only to be beaten down even further. The glorious leader’s second-in-command even chastises the man for daring to appear before them without the appropriate attire!
“Wait, did Musk really do that?” No—it was Trump’s OTHER Nazi saluting evil animatron, the new Vice President. After 6 weeks in storage, someone finally activated him.
Well, if this were a movie, karma or God or Mother Nature or Hollywood would be stepping in about now and taking care of things.But it’s not, this is real life. All I can do is feebly protest and dream about big-ass lightning bolts.
The End
You are always a good writer, but you are on FIRE in this post! Reactivating Vance had me laughing out loud. I am recovering from a nasty dental appointment on Tuesday and was heartened to read your post about products that have helped you. I really wanted to try the one that is no longer available, so I took a chance and ran to Whole Foods to see if they happened to have it on the shelf, planning to buy it all if they did and share the loot with you as a finder's fee. No such luck. I also tried the East End Food Co-Op, which was also a dead end. Oh well, worth a try. I will go out looking for the one you're using now to see if it will help with this temporary bridge I'm living with.
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Thank you Nina, I really worried about postiing this but had to vent--much appreciated! And you are too kind & funny about that Natural Dentist stuff. The Hello mouth rinse isn't as great, but comes close for those temporary bridges. Good luck!
DeletePresident Zelensky is a real living hero in our lifetime, Doug. The contrast between him and the current U.S. president is ASTOUNDING!!!!
ReplyDelete100% agreed Florence, what a contrast! I'm heartsick :-(
DeleteWell said, Doug! While some of your countryman believe that this was the start of "tough" negotiations, the rest of the world is looking on in horror and disgust.
ReplyDeleteThe isolationistic tactics of IQ45 and his minions is already causing shock waves with countries turning elsewhere for trade deals. Meanwhile IQ45 goes golfing and leaves President Musk in charge of the finances.
Thank you Maebeme and yep, you nailed it. What's going to become of us. Just awful.
DeleteThis is nothing to do with 'negotiation'. Negotiating is working with two sides (maintaining neutrality, yourself) to reach a common middle ground through mutually agreed upon concessions. This was a guy coming to a meeting with the intent of shaming one side into meekly accepting the terms of an agreement reached by the 'negotiator' working with one side alone.
DeleteWell said Debby, there was nothing good about it. I sure do admire Zelensky for his character though. How I wish we had a president like that. :^(
DeleteGood analogy! If only...I had a hard day yesterday as news of this travesty leaked into my brain. I was busy so tried to keep away from the news but, you know, it's hard for a hard-core news junkie to stay away. I didn't watch much of the national news, though, because I just could not watch this again and again.
ReplyDeleteI am traumatized by this foolish man. Which, I guess, is par for the course for someone like him. It's who he wants to be.
Thank you dkzody, my gosh what you said here was EXACTLY the same as me yesterday, and overall as well. I appreciate this.
DeleteThank you for writing this Doug . It was shocking to watch . The aid from the US to Ukraine was a GIFT. Trump and Vance really displayed their real characters - do you think they come with an off switch
ReplyDeleteI am so disappointed that the Prime Minister here has decided to increase defence spending by effectively ending the UKs foreign and humanitarian aid- a resigning Minister here referred to Starmer as following in Trumps slip stream
I fear the world is increasingly unsafe , and I cannot believe that Trump and Vance thought that their behaviour was anything other than unconscionable.
God help us all
Siobhan x
Thank you for your feedback Siobhan, so agreed how shocking it was to see. I was so embarrassed... and angry. I am very sorry to hear that about the UK and their ending of aid, but I do think Trump was the catalyst here. It is scary times for many of us, that's for sure. Good to hear from you.
DeleteDug, reading this after I posted my first of the month Rabbit! Rabbit!, I can see that all this chaos is on everyone's mind. My doctor asked me if I was 'stressed' this week... "stressed?" really? To be honest, I don't feel especially stressed, but I'm thinking my body doesn't agree with me. My answer to her was: With the political situation, how can anyone NOT be stressed?" I don't watch the news, but it comes to me through other sources... and every day it seems something more atrocious happens. Where is this going? And how do we stop it?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Rian, and I liked what you said to your doctor. Like you, I don't watch the news either (aside from the weather and local matters) but some things are just too big to avoid. I wish I had an answer as to where this is all going. I just think it's important right now that we don't become accustomed to it. Please hang in there.
DeleteI am sick to my stomach. I’m happy to have you and a couple of other bloggers who think like me, as I am surrounded by family and acquaintances who don’t. Thanks for posting. Joyce
ReplyDeleteJoyce, I feel just the same way about you my friend--thank you, it means a lot to know you as well.
DeleteDug, Thank you for posting; you perfectly expressed how many of us felt as we watched this shameful display of failed leadership. I am furious and my mind keeps hearing, “A day that will live in infamy!”
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Thanks Mike! Much appreciated--I actually thought of you (and a couple others) when writing this, I almost didn't post it as it seemed small-minded. Just so felt so angry, helpless. A day that will live in infamy--well said!
DeleteDoug, Good Morning. I sent you an email. 😊 Mike TX
DeleteGot it Mike, thanks my friend. 🙂👍
DeleteI know you didn't want to stir up anymore hornets nests but good job Doug!! Im posting a link to your column on my wifes Facebook so she can link to it from work. I hope her Trump supporters check it out too. Dutch KS
ReplyDeleteThanks Dutch, good to hear from you and please tell Mary I said hello. I miss our book talks. As for that hornets nest, I tried to keep it cool here but I admit yesterday really riled me. I appreciate your friendship. :^)
DeleteThe United States has aligned itself with dictatorships like Russia and Turkey against our former European allies. I am shocked and saddened. I never thought things could get this low.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading & sharing Miss Merry, I am in sad agreement. :^(
DeleteMy husband and I are hanging in there, happy to have like minded people like you to vent with. Everything you and your commenters have said could have been lifted right from my own spirit. We are doomed, I fear.
ReplyDeleteThank you DJan, I feel fortunate to have friends like yourself. I hate to think all hope is lost though, but it's going to be a long while before things are better. :^(
Delete2026 may be our first relief. Apparently the Republican part has no gumption and too scared to disagree with Putin's asset. It reminds me of the Bible verse, Matthew 16:26,What will it profit a man, though he should win all the whole world, if he loses his own soul?
ReplyDeleteThanks Ann, I'm in agreement about 2026 (fingers crossed). And that's a good Bible verse, you would think for all the Trump supporters that claim to be Christians...
DeleteOh Doug, you are a talented writer! I especially enjoyed the part about the other animatron being activated out of storage! It made me sick to see how Zelensky was treated. I fear for our future.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, thanks so much--it's so nice to hear from you (and I'm not saying that because of the nice compliment, haha)--I sure hope your husband is doing better. I'm convinced our country will be too.. in time. :^(
DeleteTom is doing a little better, thank you for asking. I finally posted again for the first time in over a year, trying to bring things up to date.
DeleteI'm looking forward to reading it Bonnie, I thought you were gone for good. :^)
DeleteWould love to see big-ass lightning bolts strikes in DC and FL.
ReplyDeleteDamselfly, you gave me a guilty chuckle here--thank you. :^)
DeleteThe Mad Seed starring Dick Tater! Sounds like a terrible movie. If only we weren't living in it...😵 (I am still livid about the treatment of Zelenskyy. "This will make great television." That remark alone left me shaking with anger.) Fatal lightning bolts can't come soon enough. Thanks for sharing, I needed to vent too!
ReplyDeleteBobi, boy you just gave me a real chuckle here. Thank you, I needed to vent, but I needed this too. Yes--YES, you said it! :^)
DeleteI couldn't listen to the whole of the TV moment yesterday. Orange face only strengthens my resolve to resist.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't either Joanne. He literally sickens me, like rat poison.
DeleteI knew this admin (if you can call the clown show that) would be awful but not as catastrophic as it's turning out to be. They have no humanity, no ethics and no morals whatsoever. They are cruel and narcissistic. Need I tell you that I revile them and everything they stand for? I am sickened.
ReplyDeleteThank you Margaret, in fact I know exactly how you feel and I'm just glad we're on the same page about this. You've been such a good friend and I don't know what I would do if we thought opposite here.
DeleteGreat post Doug. It was horrifying to watch what little I watched of that “performance “. Did Vance have his lines written on his hands??? The crap show continues. Take care Doug!❤️
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Thank you Robin, and I couldn't agree more about that being horrifying. And yes I think you're right about Vance. I'm in honest shock these clowns are in charge. We all just have to keep it together and hang on. I hope you and Chuck are well, looking forward to talking to you again soon. ❤️
DeleteI’ve been pondering your column for a couple of days now, but I can’t think of anything that would add something apposite to what you have written.
ReplyDeleteWell done.
That's very kind of you to say, thanks Peter. I'm glad we're friends.
DeleteGruesome movie. Gruesome politics!
ReplyDeleteYou're the Queen of Hawaii, can't you do something? Just kidding, hang in there Gigi.
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