Thanksgiving 2022
"Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband.
"In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered.
Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington.
Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it sets for the rest of the world", Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be.
Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting. Yet it wasn't the game that Winston was uninterested in.
It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey. Even though it was the best type of Veggie Meat available after the government revised the American Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce, and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey.
And ever since the government officially changed the name of "Thanksgiving Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020, to officially acknowledge the Pilgrims' historically brutal treatment of Native Americans, the holiday had lost a lot of its luster.
Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated CFL light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold.
Ever since Congress passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats - which were monitored and controlled by the electric company - be kept at 68 degrees, every room on the north side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.
Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the family.
Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment.
He had had many heated conversations with the
Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt,and everyone was forced into the government health care program.
And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort.
"The RHC's resources are limited", explained the
government bureaucrat Winston spoke with on the phone. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I'm sorry for your loss"
Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines - for everyone but government officials.
The fifty mile round trip was about ten miles too far, and Ed didn't want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there.
Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in.
Winston made sure that the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion.
No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his hemorrhoids.
Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told Americans the added "inconvenience" was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the terrorists."
Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via Anti-Profiling Act of 2022.
That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for "unequal scrutiny," even when probable cause was involved.
Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc., etc., had become almost routine.
Almost.
The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Americans expect a Court composed of six progressives and three conservatives to leave the law intact.
"A living Constitution is extremely flexible", said the Court's eldest member, Elena Kagan. "Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example", she added.
Winston's thoughts turned to his own children.
He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner.
Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford.
She whined for a week, but got over it.
His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude that ranged between simmering surliness and outright hostility.
It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 feet of another human being.
Winston paid the $5,000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the American dollar became virtually worthless as a result of QE13.
The latest round of quantitative easing the federal government initiated was, once again, to "spur economic growth."
This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18%, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.
Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement.
At least, he had his memories.
He felt a twinge of sadness when he realized his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life "fair for everyone" realized their full potential.
Winston, like so many of his fellow Americans, never realized how much things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them.
He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2011, when all the real nonsense began.
"Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is enough' when we had the chance," he thought.
Maybe so, Winston. Maybe so.
Comments
Three years have passed since Obama came into the oval office and we have clearly established that voter fraud played no small part in that election. With the 2012 election quite possibly turning into another close race it would appear that we can hardly afford to again be dealing with these challenges after the fact. If memory serves me right, from past experience, the courts have not exactly been on our side. Am I missing something or does anyone have an explanation as to why we are not currently dealing with these issues?
TAKE OUT THE TRASH!
The sad truth is that Washington has conducted itself in the fashion of a criminal organization for far too long, and to state this fact of course makes us the enemy of the establishment which is why we are dismissed as merely opposition party rhetoric. The truth be it that this political organization has long abandoned the principals of serving the public (the Oath), and instead of serving it has chosen to eliminate the peoples participation in the process, by choosing its own Pay Scale, Healthcare, Social Security, Retirement Packages, Golden Para-shoots (Insider Trading), Immunity from Prosecution (criminal immunity, and if required, Taxpayer funded war chests), self directed COLA‘s, all bought and paid for by the very People they are sworn to serve! Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, have all been willfully and knowingly raided. The Illegal Alien is defended for his crimes, at the tax payers’ expense, while the American Citizen is left with zero protection and suffers his loss of freedom, endless hardship, and certain bankruptcy should ever he be accused by Uncle Sam without even the benefit of the presumption of innocence. And massive foreign aid is lavishly doled out to foreign dignitaries, courtesy of the American Taxpayer, buried and undisclosed in seldom to be disclosed or even read Government bills and packages.
Yes, Washington is a cesspool of political corruption and reeking of favoritism “you scratch my back and I scratch yours“. It is in fact the broken down, dilapidated, political system which has resisted any and all necessary changes, in favor of the well oiled criminal organization it has become over half a century and most particularly in the past two decades, since the Reagan years.
Is our Government still functioning - HELL NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! It is a charade, and completely dysfunctional, by choice. The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing, and that is done by design. Do we have any smart and honest politicians left in DC? Yes we have a very few, but the sad truth is that they have completely lost control of our Government, as have “We the People“! The remaining few are left without power, and “We the People” are no longer served. Today the administration is treating US as though we are expected to serve it! The present administration infringes on our rights with a never ending slew of constitutional violations, diminishing our rights and our liberties, and it is using our tax revenue as a war chest to crush any and all attempts to bring them to justice, leaving us broke and unable to hold them accountable for their misdeeds. There are so many administrative infractions that we are simply unable to challenge them all. In the meantime the oppression continues, and when we finally succeed in exposing their misdeeds the Attorney General simply intervenes and puts a lid on it!
Do not be so foolish as to believe that a system this corrupt will permit you to achieve an orderly change of government. When peoples lose their protection of law anarchy follows, and revolution takes hold!
WE MUST BE READY AND WILLING TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE!
I beg to differ We The People can demand a Resignation as this administration has proven what their Real intentions are we can level the playing field to coin a phrase by an out cry to all Elected officials that we have had Enough of this pussy footin around get back to using Real Sense not these so called professors blurtin out stupid scenarios. We can right this ship so fast it would make their heads spin. We can start by holding all three branches accountable NOW! The lack of U.S Constitutional judges is as clear as a Bell to me. Our Executive branch has overstep its Boundaries and the Legislative branch has gotten away with closed door policies. Well I say that Door can Swing both ways.
Some people who read this will think SI-FI however it is more true than one would beleive...
Enough IS Enough - - Congress needs to know the WE THE PEOPLE as in U.S. will no longer stand by & allow the few to rule the many....
I to am sorry. Everyday I wonder when are the American people say enough is enough.
Can't we demand that Barack get out of the white house and out of our lives?
There is Still Time to Save a Dime when we Find that we are Americans of all Kind sticking to a Plan for this Administration to concede to our Demand because "We The People" are in Command!
You are right Donald, as long as we do not have the constitutional experts willing to take on government (supporting us with their active contribution) and as long as our current administration is allowed to silence Tea Party dissent, as was done just yesterday (at the Balanced Budget Hearings 11/17/11) "We the People" no longer have a voice and peaceful change is wishful thinking.
What are we waiting for? The easy answer is: We need a strong power full leader who believes in our country and our Constitution and the bill of rights; all of which we do not have at present!
Fiction today, but tomorrow?
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