At 2:00 in the morning, Walt Nauta sat in Mar-a-Lago’s den, building a raft of pills.

As his boss crafted his nightly rant on Truth Social, Nauta removed pills from bottles. He couldn’t believe how many pills the boss was taking. He placed them on a polished sterling silver tray. Engraved on the tray were the words, Trump Tower November 30, 1983 and an architectural sketch of the building. He paused to admire the design he had created with the red, white and blue pills.

Nauta thought:

Two Aleve PM gel caplets to relief the arthritis in his back;

One Lisinopril to treat his high blood pressure;

Two Nature Made Multi Gummies;

One Dulcolax to relief his constipation;

One large Glucosamine chondroitin pill to lessen his joint pain;

One Ambien for his insomnia.

The boss was smart enough not to swallow all those pills on an empty stomach. So he took a few bites out of a McDonald’s burger and washed it down with a few sips of Diet Coke.

Nauta remembered that he was required—pursuant to the bosses’ instructions—to place four ice cubes (not one or two or three) in a gold embossed Harrah’s at Trump Plaza glass and fill it to the point where the Diet Coke inundated the ice.

Carrying the burger, the coke and the raft of pills, Nauta walked into the former president’s bedroom. He watched as the 77-year-old former president downed all of the pills, all of the burger and all of the coke.

He felt sorry for the old man.

He feared the Ambien was causing his employer memory loss. The boss was losing his edge, his sharpness and his ability to think on his feet.

He feared the trials were killing him.

He tried to get the boss to watch less TV but his efforts failed.

When the boss watched the news (which was all the time) it drove him crazy.

The old man feared losing his New York properties.

He feared going to jail.

Nauta heard it in his voice and saw it in his reddened eyes.

His mood and demeanor had changed.

His look on life had turned dour; he yelled at all of the folks that surrounded him.

He had lost all patience his workers at Mar-a-Lago.

And during his fits of anger and rage, he threw stuff.

Nauta wondered:

Would Xanax reduce his level of anxiety?

Would the boss be willing to take another pill?

Did he even have the balls to recommend Xanax?

In his head, he heard the boss yelling, “When did you become a fucking doctor? Get the hell out of my sight.”

As Nauta walked out of his bosses’ bedroom, he said, “Good night, Mr. President. May you have a good night’s sleep.”

The former president replied, “Good night Walt. Thanks for everything.”

Walt shut the door, bit his tongue and kept repeating his mantra:

This too shall pass.

This too shall pass.

This too shall pass.

Mort – Once again, you have touched upon the moment we have all been waiting for : to be a fly on the wall of the high and mighty and omnipotent ‘tour de farce!’ Keep up the barbs!—Richie 

Perry, Thanks for sharing.—Mort

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“Mordechai, I don’t understand all this talk about a ceasefire,” Moise queried.

“Well historically, it doesn’t make any sense. The Japanese launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and killed 2,403 Americans and by the war’s end—August 15, 1945—Americans killed over 337,000 Japanese civilians. During three and a half years of war the United States never considered a ceasefire only a surrender.  The war grinded on and civilians died. But now, one month after the massacre, most of the world wants Israel to stop the war that it never started. And do a ceasefire with Hamas, while the government of Gaza holds onto the hostages. It ain’t logical or fair,” Mordechai replied.

He continued, “On October 7, 2023, Israel lost 1,400 men, women and children to Hamas’ murderers and rapists and some 240 Israelis were taken hostage and Israel is now supposed to negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas. You gotta be kidding me. That smells like a crock of shit and tastes like hypocrisy.

“Moise, you’re an expert on civilians dying during modern wars so tell me how many American civilians died in 9/11attacks?”

“I think it was around 2,977.”

“And after 9/11 how many Iraqi and Afganistani civilians died?”

“I think about 432,000.”

“And how many US soldiers died fighting in VietNam War?”

“About 58,300.”

“And how many Vietnamese civilians died during the war?”

” From what I read, I think it was over a million.”

Then Moise continued, “During WWII, the Brits indiscriminately nighttime bombed German cities. Yup, you guessed it thousands died but no uproar from the rest of the world. And don’t forget U.S. General Curtis LeMay ordered the firebombing of Japanese cities because in his words, ‘The Japs deserved it.’ Curtis didn’t believe in surgical air strikes. He believed in total destruction of whole cities with conventional and atomic weapons. American and British bombs caused the death of over 337,000 Japanese civilians and over 570,000 German civilians.”

Moise paused and Mordechai jumped in, “Well you know what, I don’t have any compassion for those German and Japanese civilians dying. You see, I like paraphrasing U.S. General’s Curtis LeMay’s words, ‘Gazans deserved it.’ They’re militia committed war crimes and atrocities and now they want to parlez. Fuck ’em. The Gazans elected those miscreants and now Gazans must pay for the sins of its government.”

“Mordechai, those were exactly my sentiments. Ya know what we got here? We got a real double standard. It’s okay when the Brits or the Americans to bomb hospitals, schools or places of worship but G-d forbid the Jews do it. Those guys can nuke a whole city and the Jews don’t deserve to play by those rules. The Jews got to fight with one hand tided behind their back. It ain’t fair.

Since the days of before the Biblical sieges food, water and medical supplies weren’t allowed into the enemies camp. And yes, women, children and the elderly died horrible deaths.

But war is hell.

Nobody likes seeing dead babies being pulled out of rubble on their TV sets.

But war is hell.

And when you decapitate Israeli babies and burn old Israel men and women alive and rape Israeli teenagers, you forgo the opportunity to talk ceasefire and you only get to talk about surrender and you learn:

War is hell.”

David and the Amalekite Flavius Josephus, Saul’s death is announced to David by the Amalekite who brings him the king’s crown and armband. In pain, King David tears his clothes. Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

As the temps in the Gazan terror tunnels rose

To a range between 1,400 degrees Celsius and 233 degrees Fahrenheit

The underground passage became a metro to hell

A 300 mile secret labyrinth

Turned into a hellish white heat incinerator

killing terrorists, exploding rockets and disintegrating reinforced concrete bunkers

White heat bombs turning tunnels of hate into crematoria

Crematorium with the words: The wrath of G-d scrawled on its walls

For revenge, vengeance and justice are his

But payback is hell for those living like rats in subterranean mazes

A purgatory of vaporized bodies

Vapors smelling like sulfur but tasting like justice

Old Testament vengeance

Angry mitzvot

Existential biblical justice

commanded in the 613

Saul’s two-edged sword forged of revenge and justice decapitated the demonic rapists and murderers

For committing unforgivable and unspeakable crimes

For the Amaleklites must learn

Jewish lives matter

Jewish lives are not cheap

So remember what Hamas did to the Israelites

Remember what Amalek did to us

Never forget

For Hamasian crimes must not be blotted out of our collective memories

This evil must be buried deep in the rubble of Gazan tunnels

Thank you Mort for another inciteful piece.—Joanne

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