Good-Day Playtime folks!! Not sure how I felt about being back to work today. I often do enjoy my job. I enjoy finding the solution to problems, working with people that are, quite frankly, smarter than I and coming to an understanding of an issue and seeking a solution. I enjoy the creative process of fabrication. What begins a draft on paper ending as a usable and well made product is often magical, in my mind. Ok, I’m a cheap date, I get it.
Many of the people I work with are very much drumpf lovers. I am well known to be not so enamored. In fact, if you asked me, I’d say I hate the guy…. but no, that’s not a fair word. I hate what he’s done. I hate what we’ve become because of this one …. person. Other presidents spoke on Hope and Change, a Shining City on a Hill, Camelot, A Thousand Shining Lights. Drumpf told me I would get to the point where I was tired of winning. I’m there! I lost Camelot. I can’t see the Shining City. Camelot is gone. I am hoping for a change…. But, I don’t hate the man. I was raised better…. ironically by people who are now enamored with the guy. Nonetheless, I don’t hate because I’m better than that. Still, I so hate what he’s done to us.
As I write this I am reminded of a person we had working at the shop who was my senior. He talked a great game, seemed able to manipulate people with ease, was divisive, derisive, abusive even. Somehow I thought he was good for the company despite his faults, despite the internal red flags waving so hard that I just talked myself out of recognizing for what they, for what HE was! In the end, he cost us two big customers, our reputation, and millions of dollars (remember, small business!) We are rebuilding, hoping we survive the cost of his devastating sabotage. I feel foolish for believing this guy. I feel foolish because I KNEW he was a snake, and I FELL FOR IT! I cannot tell you how embarrassed and hurt I am from this asshole.
Remember who you are and please Hold On To Hope as we weather this particular shit storm for this too shall pass and we – as a country, as communities, as families and as individuals – we will have quite the mess to clean up. We will need strong, mature and smart people who can not only speak in complete sentences but who are invested in rebuilding and success. And, just like that snake that I once worked with, we will need to learn from this and NEVER let it happen again. Hugs. Randy
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Well said, Randy. Thank you!
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Thank you, Ali. This too shall pass – I keep telling myself that.
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-randy
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I concur
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Another one of those words that has so become part of the daily lexicon we barely notice, like damn or foke. I oft wonder if that’s part of the plan: make so easy to use nobody notices. I dislike the word with an intensity that borders on irrational if not manic emotion … but damn, that’s a lot of words to type
Small, incremental, barely perceptible steps …
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Hi Ten Bears; The owner of the company I work for was not born in the US. So, these phrases I have used my entire life are suddenly coming with another meaning. For instance, I said to him “Don’t forget, you were going to get me xyz information”. Now, I saw that as a simple reminder to a person who is VERY busy. He saw it as an insult, saying in general that he couldn’t remember a simple request for information. I duly apologized, told him it was a phrase I grew up with and surely did not mean it as any sort of derogatory term. “I hate _____” like you said, is similar, and yet it carries a definition that is frightening.
The other thing you said caught my attention: “Small, incremental, barely perceptible steps…”. The absurd, the offensive and the outlandish have been our daily life since that guy made his political presence. We’ve become numb to the horror as he perverted what’s “normal” and caused us to lose the identity of who we are. It’s enough to make a person cry.
Randy
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It is by small steps of incremental meanness and viciousness that we lose our humanity. The Nazis, in the end, embodied the ascension of utter demonic inhumanity, but they didn’t get that way overnight. They got that way through, day after day, attacking and demonizing and urging the elimination of those they deemed their enemies.
And this is what has been happening to America – in particular, to the conservative movement and the Republican Party – for a very long time. Donald Trump represents the apotheosis of this, the culmination of a very long-growing trend that really began in the 1990s.
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