Pennywise and Pound Foolish

Pennywise 

The current administration is The Dark Force. Take a relatively small thing, the rescinding of “congestion pricing”—an initiative which almost immediately proved beneficial in terms of facilitating traffic flow in Manhattan. That came on the heels of Trump’s declaration that Zelensky not Putin is the dictator and that Russia never invaded Ukraine. Trump's gaslighting and rewriting of history—well it’s as if the president were going through the terrible two’s. If you inform him that clean energy works, he sticks out his tongue and says “drill baby drill.” In the face of a potentially serious bird flu pandemic, he appoints a vaccine skeptic to be secretary of health and human services. Elon Musk, chain in hand, with one of his 13 kids on shoulders as he trades favors with Modi at Blair House, is Pennywise the dancing clown of Stephen King's It. Many of Trump's actions would be comically mad were they not tragic--in particular the destruction of USAID. Then in one fell sloop, he eradicated NATO leaving Europe and the US perfect targets for today’s Axis  Iran, North Korea, China and Russia. The effects of the famed “Access Hollywood” outburst similarly made a mockery of women’s rights in one “executive order.” As part of its downsizing effort, DOGE let go some of the staff National Nuclear Safety Authority, which is charged with overseeing the United States's arsenal of weapons. The edict was rescinded. Just lucky they didn't need another hand on deck that day. 

listen to "Here Comes the Judge" by Pigmeat Markham (1968)

and read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn