Je suis le soleil.
How is that?, you ask. Well, today is Independence Day here in the US. Or, as some people like to say, it's this nation's birthday.
I am the law.
Believe it or not, Donald Trump didn't utter the first of the above declarations, mainly because he doesn't speak French. (He barely speaks English.) But if he could--or if he had any flair for figurative language--he would. "I am the sun" would sum up the way he sees himself.
He probably wishes he could make the second statement. Sometimes I think he hired Rudy Giulani for the express purpose of finding a loophole in the Constitution that would allow him to appropriate such power unto himself.
Now I am going to say something just as audacious and ridiculous--and something El Cheeto Grande has fever-dreams about saying: I am this country.
How is that?, you ask. Well, today is Independence Day here in the US. Or, as some people like to say, it's this nation's birthday.
It's also my birthday. And I am identifying myself with this American nation because, for the first time, I feel as old.
My wounds are healing and I have to go for another MRI in a week. Hopefully, it won't tell me I'm not as well as I feel because, well, I'm used to feeling better than I feel now.
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| Fourth of July Bike Ride, 1934 |
I might get on my bike today. If it doesn't leave me in more pain--and if I don't crash--I'm sure I'll feel younger, or at least better.
If only a "cure" for this country, or this world, were so simple!
I'm sorry for whining.
Whenever I see the "dislike" button I wonder what it is actually for...
ReplyDeleteI dislike reminders that criminal clown has a finger on a nuclear button to keep the world in fear whilst ruining countless lives day to day.
The other dislike is that a country which has the nerve to celebrate nearly two and a half centuries of independence and claims to be a world leader but has no affordable universal health care system!
On happier note, Birthday greetings.