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During World War II, the BBC
World Service broadcast a nightly German
language news program that began at exactly
11:55 PM European time with the words, "Deutchen
Zoldaten am Rein, es ist Funf Minuten vor
Zwolf!" (German soldiers in the
Rheinland, it is five minutes before
twelve!). 'Five minutes before
twelve' is a German idiom meaning, "Doom
is at hand!" It was a propaganda
program designed to dishearten and scare the
shit out of the Germans. Near the end
of the war, as Allied troops swarmed through
the heart of Germany and German cities were
being carpet bombed, the truth of those
words was inescapable. German officers
abandoned their posts and headed to
Argentina with their escapes well planned in advance. Left on their own,
soldiers shed their uniforms, stole civilian
clothing, and ran off trying to pretend to
be Frenchmen on bicycles. Loosing a
war is a bitch.
This past December was
disheartening for the current occupant of the
White House. Every single former
presidential appointee and staffer was headed to
jail and or singing their hearts out acapella to
federal investigators. Potential
appointees to replace those who were fired or
were jumping ship were refusing suicide White
House jobs. You'd think he'd smell the
poop in his panties and resign. But no,
not this cretin. The last Republican
President to
abandon his sinking ship, Richard Nixon, was a
cultured gentleman by comparison. When it
was clear that he'd lost the popular vote in the
1960 election, he conceded to John F. Kennedy
even before the Electoral College results were
in. It was a gentlemanly thing to do.
And over a decade later, as Watergate closed in
around him, he didn't wait for his impending
impeachment. He sat before the national
television cameras and resigned, publicly.
He was a louse, but that last speech was a courageous
cultured class act. Years later, after he
retired to suburban New Jersey, commentator
David Frost jokingly asked him, in an interview
series, if he was considering any future
political runs. Nixon good naturedly joked
back, saying, "Saddlebrook (NJ) already has a
mayor." Despite being a louse, he was a
gentleman with class.
Not that I admired Nixon, make
no mistake. His primary accomplishment as
President was pulling out of Vietnam so abruptly
that it resulted in the chaotic humiliating
helicopter evacuation as the Communist hordes
swarmed into Saigon. A total disaster
disgracing every American service member who was
killed or maimed in that war. Thanks DICK!
Secondly, of course, was his 'opening up China'
which led to the closing of almost every factory
in America as millions of American jobs moved to
China making that nation the economic power it
is today, while destroying the American middle
class. Thanks DICK!
As I write
this in late December, SECDEF, the last adult in
the room, has just jumped off the sinking
presidential ship; literally leaving Der Fuhrer without
any generals. Our leader's
Christmas gift to the nation? Shut down the
government sending hundreds of thousands of
employees home without pay. Thanks DICKhead.
Not satisfied with sabotaging the planet's
future by kicking the legs out from under
worldwide agreement on climate change, he is
currently causing the world's worst economic
catastrophe since the Great Depression. He
blames everyone but himself. And on
Christmas Eve, he cruelly told a seven year old
child to 'not believe in Santa.' That was
a step up for the man who stole thousands of
little children from their immigrant parents and
threw them in cages; who's cruel policies
resulted in the deaths of two immigrant
children, for which he blamed the previous
administration during which not one immigrant
child died in nearly a decade.
The Current Occupant ain't got
no class. He'd rather drag the nation
through the mud than ever admit that he's
screwed. Someone suicidal needs to tell
him, "Herr president, es ist Funf Minuten vor
Zwolf!" They are going to have to
fumigate the White House after they finally drag him out
of there, kicking and screaming and tweeting
incoherently.
The only question is: Is it five
minutes to midnight for him, or for our nation?
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