Tuesday - November 26th 2024
My Dear America:
2024 has certainly been a Strange and Powerful Year for America.
We have had The Election Of a Lifetime and we are waiting to see what awaits us in the coming year as Donald Trump prepares to move back into the White House, where many of us hoped that he would never again darken its doors.
It is understandable that in this place and this time that it could happen that November 22nd could have rolled around without so much as a thought about what had occurred on November 22nd 61 years ago.
I understand that probably many Americans might have little or no recollections of that Friday on November 22nd of 1963 when it seemed to me and to many other Americans of my generation as though our lives had suddenly come crashing in on us when we found out from Radio and Television that our Beloved American President and Hero, John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot to death on the Streets of Dallas, Texas. It was an extremely Frightening and Disturbing Realization to think that the President of the United States of America could be taken away from us so Quickly and Violently.
In some ways it seems to me to be somewhat similar to how I am feeling today, which is completely let down by the fact that Enough Americans were willing to choose God Knows What over Democracy when they voted in the 2024 Election for President, Senators and Congresspeople.
As I have watched the continuing announcements by Donald Trump of people he has chosen to join his Cabinet I have found it almost funny if it wasn't so incredibly disturbing.
Although Matt Gaetz has been taken out of consideration for Attorney General many other truly disturbing choices remain including Pete Hegseth, a Fox News Host who served in the military who has bragged on air that he hasn't washed his hands in 10 years, causing his Fox and Friends Weekend Female Co Host to quickly move down the couch away from him. Hegseth is known to have paid off a woman who accused him of Sexual Assault. He also does not believe that woman belong in combat. Hegseth is apparently on deck to be the Secretary of Defense.
Another Disturbing Trump Pick for Secretary of Health is Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who was financed by Trump backers as a stalking horse for Trump in order to strip away some Democratic votes from Biden or later on Harris. Kennedy is well known as an opponent of vaccines and also has an annoying habit of picking up dead creatures for God knows what reasons. He also has accusations of sexual assault in his background. Kennedy has apparently stated that when he was younger he used Heroin and claimed that it made him a better student.
Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert Kennedy Jr., along with Donald Trump all have Sexual Assault allegations in their backgrounds. Not exactly the kinds of people who are normally chosen for these vitally important jobs.
These previous Cabinet Picks are disturbing enough but to my mind the most disturbing Cabinet choice so far is Tulsi Gabbard. She has been chosen by Donald Trump to be - Get this - The Director of National Intelligence.
WHAT?
Her qualification for this position apparently is the fact that she is constantly parroting Russian Disinformation in the American and Russian media. She is practically a Certified Russian Spy who will be at the top of the American Spycraft Food Chain. She won't even have to search for American Intelligence Information. It will be delivered to her desk everyday, just like it was being delivered by Door Dash.
With characters like these, along with Donald Trump's other leadership choices what could possibly go wrong?
PLENTY.
Getting back to the JFK Assassination I guess it is understandable that in today's news it is fairly easy to see how Kennedy's Assassination was not on the top tier of every American's thoughts these days.
In other years there was usually at least some increasingly meager attention that was paid each year to the Kennedy Assassination.
Usually there was a TV News mention, A Newspaper Mention, A New Book, a magazine article, Possibly a documentary, a movie - something about the JFK Assassination. No more apparently.
To be honest, I probably would not have paid much attention to November 22nd myself if it wasn't for the fact that I was already in the process of reading a book called "The Passage Of Power" by Robert Caro, which is the last volume in a series called "The Years Of Lyndon Johnson" written by Caro about Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was Kennedy's Vice President and became President following the Assassination.
On November 22nd I just happened to be reading the section of the book about the Assassination.
I have written about the Kennedy Assassination before during previous Anniversaries of November 22nd but there is something far more intense for me this year as we appear to face the Second Inauguration of Donald Trump with something less than enthusiasm and in my case a tremendous fear about where we are headed in the coming months and years.
God Help Us.
We are Certainly going to need God's Help to get through this nightmare intact.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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