Born in 1959, I recall the Cold War. I remember videos of Nikita Khrushchev saying "we will bury you". That video was re-played over and over again in the 1960's. I vaguely recall hiding under my desk in kindergarten during a "nuclear attack" drill. I recall houses and homes that were built in the late 1950's and early 1960's with bomb shelters. I was brought up under the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I remember all too well Walter Cronkite on CBS news and stories of the KGB, the USSR, the Cold War... Russia was (and still is) our enemy. I remember seeing George C. Scott in the movie "Patton" in 1970 and I recall his famous line: "We may have been fighting the wrong enemy all along. But while we're here (on the Soviet border), we should go after the bastards..."
My father, may he rest in peace, was in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He served Stateside and never saw combat, but never-the-less he was in the military while the U.S. was at war with North Korea.
And now, the U.S. Government just voted at the United Nations against a U.N. resolution - along with Russia and... North Korea? Really? We are now part of the "Axis of Evil" - a term another Republican President once coined.
So now, 65 years after I was born, we've come full circle. Russia and North Korea are no longer enemies. They are our friends. Our Cohorts. Our Comrades. Really, America???
My father is surely rolling over in his grave.
I say Fuck Trump! And Fuck all those who voted for him. I know for a fact my father didn't vote for the grifter. My dad was life-long Republican, but in his last days, he admitted to me that he had voted for Obama - twice. And he told me he didn't vote for Trump in 2016. I'm 100% sure he didn't vote for Trump in 2020. One month after the election, my father passed away. Thankfully, Biden won. Thankfully, my father didn't live to see the debacle on Jan 6, 2021.
My father didn't cuss like I do... (sorry, I spent too much time in Europe around Brits, Scots, Dutchies and Irishmen). However I believe if he were still with us, he would join me and Robert DeNiro at the Tony Awards: Fuck Trump!