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And So It Goes

Today is Monday, December 15, 2025. When the news cycle couldn’t get any worse – with the death of two university students at Brown University and the shocking murder of 15 Jewish individuals in Australia this weekend – there comes the equally shocking news of the murders of celebrated artist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele in their Brentwood home Sunday morning. I heard about this early Monday morning when I turned to MS Now a little after 1.m. after watching a tense thriller on Tubi called Next of Kin. I couldn’t believe what I was reading on the screen: that Rob Reiner, though being 78, and his wife, Michele, 68, were found dead in their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon. At that time, no suspect in their double murders was not identified as of yet.

In the wake of this horrible event, the sitting idiot in chief decided to release his own vulgar comments on the death of Reiner, portraying it as the wrongful result of his liberal policies and his obsession with Drumpf. He referred to people accurately hating him as “Trump Derangement Syndrome” on his vile “Truth” – what a joke! – Social platform. I won’t go into the substance of his disgusting remarks, but I hope with this post after the murder of one of Hollywood’s and this nation’s most respected humanitarians, that this dummkopf has finally reached the lowest point of respect. How dare him post such abominable tripe when someone as respected as Rob Reiner is killed by his own son, as the news has later reported. His post was a sneering rebuke of Reiner’s true legacy as a talented writer, director, and actor. He hated Reiner only because Reiner called this dummkopf out a myriad of times for his being the stupidest man on the planet and for his horrible character and vileness. All of it true, of course!

Finally, I’m now reading a score of cowardly repugnicans have struck back at this subhuman for his disgusting remarks about Reiner. This stupid president when confronted with his acid remarks on his ridiculous platform actually double downed on them, saying, “Well, I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned,” thus using the absurd habit of the third person here when talking about himself. Isn’t that a bit looney on its own, even?

I truly hope this madman loses more support among those voters out there for posting such unpresidential, uncultured, uncivilized, unhinged remarks that paint him as truly deranged himself. When he called Reiner “deranged,” of course he was discussing himself as usual, using the defense mechanism of projection, which is his fucking modus operandi for his miserable 79 years.

Despite Grump’s words of nonrespect toward Reiner’s death, Hollywood itself is posting condolence after condolence on the passing of the beloved director/actor and his wife, who was a photographer in her own right. I’ll just say that Dump’s remarks have spurred an immediate outrage against them – even as far right as the hosts of The Charlie Kirk Show who condemned the president’s comments.

This unlikely condemnation coming from a far-right host of the late Charlie Kirk’s eponymous show is covered in a RawStory article entitled “‘Delate that!’ Charlie Kirk Show joins outrage over Trump’s ‘disgusting’ Rob Reiner attack,” by David Edwards.

Thus hosts of the program condemned Demented Don’s attack on Truth Social following the murder of the liberal Hollywood director.

Cohost Blake Neff said about the remarks that have traveled around the world but not in a good way, “It’s terrible politics. It’s a free country. And he [Rob Reiner] was allowed to believe what he wanted. That doesn’t mean it’s okay for him to get stabbed to death by his son. And it’s disgusting [really pointing a finger at Dump] if anyone is celebrating this.”

Then Neff went on to read the “president’s” commentary, saying that the toddler in chief should delete those comments. Another cohost, Andrew Kolvet, reminded listeners that Reiner responded to Kirk’s death by saying “it should never happen to anybody,” words that this idiot leader couldn’t bring himself to say in his own post. Reiner went on to say, “I don’t care what your political beliefs are. That’s not acceptable.”

Kolvet insisted, “That is the only correct response . . . whenever anyone dies.” And here, I have to agree with this conservative podcaster.

I’m hoping that everyone on the political spectrum now comes out to excoriate this insane president for his disappointing and totally unacceptable comments. I also hope that support for him erodes even more after this abominable display of uncouthness.

Tomorrow I’m going to meet a colleague from my school for lunch, ironically, in the same area that Elliot and I found ourselves in on Saturday night: the Upper East Side.

I’m not sure what I might do after our lunch on East 70th Street. I could stay out, even though I’m going to a meeting of my Turner Classic Movies fan club on Wednesday at 5. This is being held at the Tick Tock Diner, on West 34th Street. I might not be here on Wednesday either.

Oops, I will be out on Thursday also. I’m finally seeing the hottest show in town, Oh, Mary, at 7:30. I’ve heard it’s not such a long play, so I should file a blog that night as well, if I’m not too tired. I snagged a ticket on the Today Tix app that I have on my phone last week.

Have a good Tuesday.

And so it went!

This is the playbill from that play we saw on Saturday.

And So It Goes

Today is Sunday, September 21, 2025, one day before the official start of autumn. For those of you who are interested – and I know most of you aren’t – today marked the funeral and public memorial marking the canonization of far-right activist Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona. The doddering president has been shown delivering remarks on the occasion of this spectacle, but I generally had no intention of listening to him. I’m more interested in an online article from Ok! by its staff entitled “Donald Trump Falls Asleep at Charlie Kirk’s Funeral and Memorial Service as Health Concerns Mount: Photo.”

The article mentions that the president was seen dozing off during the service in Arizona. After Kirk was shot and killed on September 10, Dump shared the news on “Truth” Social. I won’t repeat what the most un-Christian commander in chief posted on his media platform about how wonderful the late Kirk was.

Now it has been reported that the killer of Kirk, Tyler Robinson, often clashed with his father over their opposing views, his mother said. When Charlie’s Utah Valley University event came up, Tyler reportedly called it “stupid” and said Kirk “spreads too much hate.”

In the meantime, this is hardly the first time Dump was caught taking forty winks. Recently, the former reality star was observed napping during the U.S. Open finals, sparking a new round of questions about his condition.

Two clinical psychologists – John Gartner and Harry Segal – now claim the signs point to something more serious, with Chump showing physical and linguistic symptoms of “early dementia.” And who recalls that it was discovered that former President Ronald Reagan was suffering from the same ailment during his second term? And that his “Just say, no” wife, Nancy Reagan, was actually running the country for him? I wonder who is doing it in the case of this loathsome individual; it’s certainly not Melanoma, his wife. It’s probably Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff who is as just as loathsome as his boss.

And who can forget the many times Chump was caught dozing during his one criminal trial conducted here in New York? Back in July, cameras caught him struggling to stay awake as his team rolled out a new health-tracking system at the White House. Later that month, critics nicknamed him “Sleepy Don” after he seemed ready to nod off during an energy and AI summit in Pittsburgh.

ll I have to say about this matter is how the media would pounce on former President Joe Biden if he had ever done the same thing as Chump in public, no less. This guy appears to be suffering, actually, from early onset dementia in real time and our legacy news outlets somehow are shying away from reporting on it! This is not good for America.

Well, that wraps it up for me for the next three days. Tomorrow night marks the start of Rosh Hashanah and we’re either hosting our friend “Patricia” here at our apartment – only if the elevator is restored to its former glory during the day – or we’re going to Patricia’s place, toting all the food that Elliot prepared for the occasion.

On Tuesday, we head out to Cherry Hill to spend the holiday with “Harold” and his family. Since we just returned from an almost-two-week overseas trip, we’re staying only until Wednesday. And we also don’t want to leave Atticus for much longer than a day or so.

So for those of my readers who celebrate this event, let me wish you “L’shana tova”; may you all be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year. I will either return here on Wednesday or on Thursday. It depends on when we come back from New Jersey and on my mental and physical state.

And so it went!

Ooh, my very first AI-generated image! Good heavens!

And So It Goes

Today is Friday, September 19, 2025. Boy, was I overjoyed that we missed the political news emanating out of this country the time we were in Copenhagen and Israel, even though we heard some snippets of the carnival of fascism swirling in this country during the present moment on BBC World News in Copenhagen. The family member we were staying with in Tel Aviv had no CNN, so we didn’t watch the news at all, but we certainly heard the news about far-right activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination while we were in Copenhagen, I believe. (I believe it happened on September 10; we were leaving Copenhagen for Israel that day.) The reaction over Kirk’s death was swift and unrelenting on the far right; the buffoon of a president talked way out of turn and condemned the “far left radicals” for Kirk’s murder, but if he had just waited until a damn suspect was taken into custody, he would have learned the gunman was not from the left at all; he was a registered Republican, as his grandmother told news outlets. This is what this “divider in chief” does so well: he divides the country into “radical lefties” and proper far righters, which he deems more American than those who espouse those policies considered too “woke” for Dump’s factions to ever wish for.

What has resulted from the death of Dump’s 31-year-old extremist friend who deserves no accolades other than that he shouldn’t have been shot for espousing such hateful opinions under the rubric of free speech is the repercussions of what Little Donnie has exacted in the wake of this event, which was to strong-arm ABC to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air for allegedly spouting anti-Kirk views on his show, which was not even the case at all. He never criticized Kirk directly for his views; he criticized MAGA for embracing Kirk’s death as a political stunt and claiming incorrectly that it was carried out by someone on the far left, which had already been disproved. For this, he was taken off the air! How ridiculous! Has anyone ever mentioned that Fox News itself should be taken off the air for espousing lies, damn lies, and more lies to the gullible American public? This station has done more irreparable damage to the American psyche ever since it came on the air, and it still is allowed to flourish, despite an almost 1-billion settlement against it for spouting lies about the 2020 election. And Kimmel is taken off for one inoffensive comment that was deemed too sensitive for the toddler in chief’s ears. In a stunning move that should serve as a wake-up call for all Americans that our First Amendment rights are now directly under attack by this fascistic administration, the Jimmy Kimmel show was put on an indefinite preemption by ABC.

It was Nexstar that owns dozens of ABC affiliates who applied pressure to the network to remove Kimmel from his late-night show. This move by Dump and his awful minions to suppress free speech should send a deep shudder through every American who cherishes the notion of free speech in this country. We are not a dictatorship – yet. But this blatant abuse of power on behalf of this authoritarian president must be dealt with severely – either with immediate lawsuits filed by Kimmel himself or by boycotting ABC itself by all people who denounce this decision by this regime. I have also been made aware that people should boycott Disney, even, since it owns ABC now. I haven’t been to a Disney property in years and I have no intention of going to one in the near future anyway.

Podcaster Aaron Parnas writes about this disturbing trend with the firing of Kimmel thusly: “If this becomes the norm, no figure in the public eye, regardless of political leaning, is safe from being pulled ‘indefinitely’ when their words displease powerful stakeholders. Beyond Kimmel, the deeper danger lies in the chilling effect this sets for all media figures, entertainers, and journalists. If the cost of expressing opinions – however clumsy or controversial – is corporate cancellation, the incentive will shift from speaking truth to power toward speaking nothing at all.” The world of 1984 will rule over this country like Big Brother reigned over that fictional land created by George Orwell.

We cannot let this thin-skinned baby get his way here. Now is the time to resist. As Parnas concludes a piece he wrote, “Today it is Jimmy Kimmel. Tomorrow, it could be any voice that dares to step outside the lines drawn by those in power.”

We are in deep doodoo, my friends, and we must make ourselves aware of how bad the situation is developing in this country and fight it. Or we won’t have a country anymore!

Despite this warning, please have a good weekend.

And so it went!