Loyalty

We have another warm one outside.  The current temp on the veranda is 38 (F), and for this time of year, that's not bad.  The January thaw continues.  Tomorrow will be nice, too.  Then, just in time for me to go back to work the rain will set in.  They say we might get as much as an inch on Saturday.  Because we've had some warm days, most of that will soak in rather than run off and cause severe flash flooding.

I had planned on getting a workout in yesterday morning, but didn't.  A lunch was scheduled with my cousin and her husband.  Any time I have something scheduled for the early afternoon my schedule seems to go to shit, and of course that happened.  And, as should be expected, after eating a full meal all those carbs kicked and I didn't feel like throwing around the dumbbells when I got home.

So, I ate too much and did nothing else.  Well that's not entirely correct, we had a very nice conversation touching on a vast number of topics, even political, which we usually avoid.  You see, my cousin and her husband are Republicans and have been all of their lives.  Like many Republicans, and Democrats as well, they have been loyal to their party.  They actually had signs for Orangie in their front yard, however that's changed.  I don't know what precisely Orangie did to lose them, perhaps it was a number of things.  While they appreciated the capture of Maduro, everything else about Venezuela pisses them off.  As my cousin's husband, a Navy veteran, said, "this is Vietnam all over again." Orangie's talk of acquiring Greenland is another very sore subject.  Will they vote for a Democrat in the mid-terms?  I don't know.   I'd say they'd most likely not vote at all, rather than show support for the current administration.  

Loyalty to Orangie is beginning to fall apart on all fronts, except his most zealot cultists.  Coming home yesterday and hearing about the murder of an American mother by an agent of this administration set my blood to boil.  We are living in an age of chaos because many people loyal to their political party believed Orangie's lies.  They ignored everything he has done in his life simply because he spun a web of lies they wanted to hear.  Now those strands of loyalty are being sheared in two, sharpened by the blades of his reality, a world in which soulless people fester with hatred.  For those who have yet to figure it out, his cult hates everything that is decent and good.  They don't want your life to be easier.  They want you to hurt, and suffer.  Orangie is doing things that constantly test the loyalty of his cultists; their acceptance of his acts of evil affirm their worship of him, and this gives him great satisfaction.  The fact that he is losing his grasp on a much larger group phases him not.  If they're not loyal, they are of no use to him.  His winnowing of his flock saps his strength; they have never been the armor and shield he thinks they are.  Their loyalty is dying.

The Price of Loyalty

So, I called off work today.  Rainy weather, combined with a pressure system has my arthritis aching... and I just didn't feel like trying to sell carpeting or blinds to non-existent customers; rain truly does effect the footprints passing through our store.  Even though it's been over a year since I last called off, I still got the same, curt response:  "okay, I'll put you in," and then the disconnect.  This is how life is, there is no question of my loyalty, just the aggravation of being short staffed, even on a weather crappy day.  They're not going to use that as a reason to fire me... unlike the Idiot in the White House.
You see, one of the Idiot's many problems is that he believes that because a minority party managed to squeeze him into the Oval Office through the back door of the Electoral College, he is now the Supreme Commander.  Someone needs to tell him that the Supreme Commander is only a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and even though he looks cartoonish as hell, Disney would never hire him to play that part.  This is, however, beyond the Idiot's comprehension level; he's a business man, remember.
The Idiot, it seems, feels that he deserves unwavering loyalty, a dedication which supersedes all that is fair and good and right.  He wants people to say "yes sir," with out question.  Democracy?  Get over it, people.  The Idiot is in charge... right.  I suspect there is so much seething hatred running through the Idiot's brain right now just about everybody is disloyal, which means all of his sycophants must really have their hands full.

And this is fine, you know?  Because all of the disrespect people have for the Idiot is burning little holes in his brain, and instead of learning from his mistakes, he just fills those holes with lies and blame.  The Idiot loves to blame.  He claims that fake media is to blame... not that it isn't in a minor way.  What he's done is throw red meat to the media, and they're on it like a dog on a bone.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if all of this disloyalty isn't making the Idiot rather paranoid.  I mean... who is loyal to him?  The military?  Hhhhmmmm, could be?.... not.