Darkness At The End Of Summer 2025

Sunday,  August 31st, 2025

My Dear America:

It is the day before Labor Day and it is also two days before what would have been the Forty Seventh Anniversary of My Marriage to Sandy Horne Gallagher.  I suppose that is why I am missing her a little more today than I normally do.  This day and Labor Day were days that always made Sandy more sad and depressed about the end of Summertime and Swimming at our Pool Club.  Whatever it is, I am just missing her a little extra today.  I always get depressed about this time also but I could always count on the fact that Sandy and I could face the challenge of another Fall and Winter together.

Not this year. Sandy Passed Away on June 9th of this year.

I am facing the prospect of living through this year alone and it feels very strange and more than a bit scary.

I am very lucky to have Wonderful Children and Grandchildren and a few very good friends that I can and do depend on.

I tried going to the pool today but that didn't go well.  The water was too damn cold and I didn't stick around very long.  

My friend Mickey texted me today to let me know that he read my letter to the editor of our local newspaper about the Billy Joel Tribute Band concert that I saw recently.

I had actually experienced a pretty good week last week, I thought.  I finished up my Greif Share Group by singing a song I wrote about Sandy and I was pleased to get applause from the group.  I enjoyed that.  I also participated in an open mike where I sang a couple of my favorite Bob Dylan songs and they seemed to go over pretty well.

I also went to visit with My Ex Wife who had a bad fall and is healing in a local hospital.  We had a very interesting, pleasant and friendly conversation.

All things considered I would have to admit that in some ways things are really OK for me right now.  Certainly my wife's passing was a horrendous experience for me but thanks to what I have learned in Greif Share I also realize that although her death was unexpected and shocking to me, she was also not languishing in pain for many months or years waiting to die.  It happened so fast that If she had any pain at all it was certainly over very quickly.

Playing music with my friends online and in my Jam group has really meant a lot to me during this past summer and also through many years before this summer.

So I guess my point is that I am probably doing the best that I can right now 

BUT

I am also living at the present time in America and things are definitely not going well in the United States of America.  Illegal Aliens and even some legitimate American Citizens are being snatched off the streets of major American Cities and being hauled off to what can only rightly be called Concentration Camps.  Although we are not yet aware of any Crematoriums or Death Camps in our country as of yet, an insidious darkness is running rampant in our land with Gestapo like masked strangers bashing in car windows to get to their human prey.

We Americans live in fear of what in the hell Donald Trump and his Band of Fascists have in store for the rest of us as this Long National Nightmare Continues.

One of the positive aspects of today's situation, however, is that Donald Trump's attempt to cover up his 15 year friendship with Jeffrey Epstein as his Running Buddy is coming apart at the seams.  Mostly all of his Q'anon cronies and even some of his previously Balless Congressional Toadies want to see what is in the Epstein files and as the Epstein Connection to Donald Trump is revealed drip by drip we are going to see an increasing disappearance in support for Donald Trump the likes of which we've never seen before.

What we have already seen about Trump and Epstein is disturbing enough but when it comes to Trump/Epstein revelations I don't think we have scratched the surface of this scandal.  It remains to be seen if Republican members of the House Oversight Committee will be willing to stonewall to try to protect Trump but the Committee seems to be at least willing to subpoena information relating to Epstein and his Partner in Crimes, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Certainly what we already know about Epstein's "Sweetheart Deal" , His strange and Terrible Suicide inside a Federal Prison while Trump was President, Ghislaine Maxwell's unusual meeting with Trump's Former Criminal Defense Attorney and Presently Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche and Maxwell's inexplicable move to a Texas Country Club Prison Facility are topics of conversation that are bound to erode Donald Trump's support among reasonable Republicans.  There is also no doubt about the fact that Democrats in Congress are certainly going to want to talk to some of the more than a thousand Epstein Survivors about their experiences.

Whether or not any of this information will matter is really up to Republicans in Congress.  These gutless Republican Stooges seem to have only one idea on their minds and that is protecting Donald Trump.  They don't seem to give a damn about whether Democracy lives or dies.  

It is time for Democrats to step up like many Democrats in Congress and in Governor's offices are doing and sound the alarm as troops are deployed to several Democratic cities supposedly to fight crime.

Unfortunately for Democrats the burning concern about Crime should not be so much about American Cities as it should be on the Crimes being committed by Donald Trump And his Cronies at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher