There have been hideous times to swim through before, as Cicero's immortal words remind us.

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TRUMP GIVES EXECUTIVE ORDER to "

I looked up from my work to catch the headline but missed the last part yesterday (11/16). I worried that it related somehow to the votes and Biden as president-elect. I texted Rob Kall, figuring that he was on top of the latest headlines. He said naw. Nothing, bupkis, rien, nada.

The latest sick feeling in my stomach, a frequent event during Trump's tenure and especially around the election, subsided. I dreaded the next one.

I came upon the headline from March that he'd declared a state of emergency related to covid. I had, I admit, jumped to Google when the headline first hit me in the side of the head, before texting Rob. Pace Rob.

A state of emergency? But covid comes and goes quickly, especially when $100,000 of our poor money is paid for a cure. And ditto for Melania and Baron, no doubt, who also tested positive. And who knows how many of his staff?

So to do nothing after declaring a state of emergency is pretty lax. An emergency for his family maybe. What is the precedent for that, historians?

I can't help but wonder if the project to eliminate excess population, which deprives the one percent of having all the money in the world, all of it, has something to do with the fact that a cure is being denied to us.

Clearly there is a cure. Trump was cured. Were he FDR, we'd probably all be cured.

Just a conspiracy theory to "justify" his negligence, though it's perfectly consistent with the rest of his actions. Perhaps the most selfish, narcissistic president in history. A naked id.

O, tempora, o mores, Cicero once said before being decapitated in the forum. (translation: oh, what a s**tty time we're living through!!! loosely. Cicero would have objected to my slang)

Let's win in Georgia and give Manchin a magic pill. It's a republic, not technically Republican, if we can somehow keep it.

A bad one, but better than none. Hypocritical to the core.

O tempura, I've lost my appetite.

Authors Website: http://www.wordsunltd.com

Authors Bio:

Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who.