For a number of years, many people, including myself, have been waiting for the moment at which the majority of the public will decide it’s had enough of the insane slaughterhouse that has become what used to be the United States of America.  At that moment, or so we expected, people would wake up from the fever dream that has featured Antifa burning down cities, Black Lives Matter marching, burning, shooting, and then extorting 10’s of millions from feckless business leaders, defund the police, the Green New Deal, dueling pronouns from gender non-specific gargoyles, and the insane musings of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden.  When that day came, we thought, sanity would reassert itself, and normal, sane people would send the messages that we really do want laws enforced,  criminals punished, and gee, maybe it’s not such a good idea to keep printing nonexistent money.  But on reflection, now I’m not sure that day will ever come.  No city in America is in worse shape than Chicago.  Crime was out of control before Rahm Emanuel left town.  He was succeeded by Beetlejuice impersonator Lori Lightfoot, who only made things worse.  Dozens of city residents were shot and killed each day.  Every weekend was a new contest to see how many men, women and children would be gunned down.  The 2020 riots destroyed the city’s Miracle Mile shopping district.  Residents and companies like Boeing, Citadel, Tyson Foods and Caterpillar fled, and even grocery stores shut down.  Mayor Lightfoot lost her bid for reelection.  There was a runoff election between two Democrats, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.  Vallas, a former city budget director and CEO of city schools, ran on a platform of enforcing the law, community policing and protecting riders on mass transit.  His main concern was for restoring public safety, which is supposed to be the first duty of government.  None of these things should have been controversial, and Vallas was hardly a right-winger.  He was supported by Senator Dick Durbin, no conservative he, and Congressman (and former Black Panther) Bobby Rush.  So a Vallas victory wouldn’t have been a victory for Republicans or conservatives, just a return to sanity and normalcy.  He lost to Brandon Johnson, a progressive community organizer (not again) who was backed by the teacher’s union and the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.  Comrade Bernie denounced Vallas as being supported by “billionaires and speculators.”  I guess he wasn’t talking about people like Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Bankman Fried, because they supported Bernie he Red.  But Johnson won, so what does he have to offer Chicago?  Nothing but more Progressive pie in the sky. Johnson promised to reduced public transit fares and to increase social services spending, but not to raise property taxes.  He says he will fund this new spending by increasing taxes on big businesses, which, I guess means the ones that haven’t already left town.  Johnson would make “suburbs, airlines, and ultra-rich pay their fair share.”  Sound familiar?  Just how he’s going to tax people who don’t live in the city is unclear.  And Johnson is for all the right, that is to say Left, things.  His policies are a festival of Woke nonsense, doubletalk, and bullshit.  He’s for environmental justice.  Translation – he’s opposed to industries that create jobs.  He’s committed to gender equity and justice, “and will make the structural changes necessary for all girls, women and transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) persons in Chicago to thrive.”  If you understood that, you’ve got me.  Johnson says “our public schools must be sanctuaries for all children by investing in dual language programs, ethnic studies and English as a Second Language.”  That actually would be an improvement, as the Chicago schools haven’t managed to teach natural born Chicagoans to speak, read, and write English proficiently.  80% of students are below grade level for reading, and there are 22 schools in the city where none (0%) of students are reading proficient.  By the way, Johnson was a teacher, and he says that puts Chicago on par with other big cities.  Maybe that’s why the teacher’s unions supported him.  His crime plan is a Civilian Office of Police Accountability and the Police Board.  He’ll end the gang database and support Treatment Not Trauma, reduce inefficiencies in public safety spending, and direct more funds to violence prevention and community safety programming that address the root causes of community violence. Translation – he won’t enforce the law.  Johnson promises to get the city budget in order – by spending more money.  That ought to work.  So let’s see, spend, tax, spend other people’s money, don’t investigate crimes, don’t punish crimes, but have lots of rainbow flags everywhere so people know you care.  Forgive me, but it sure doesn’t seem like the long-awaited day when sanity returns is coming to Chicago anytime soon.  H.L. Mencken said people get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard.  I’m afraid Chicagoans are about to get it again.  I never thought I ever would quote the likes of Peter, Paul and Mary on these pages, but as I surveyed the wreckage of the City of the Broad Shoulders, their song, Where Have All The Flowers Gone, ran through my head.  You remember –

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

That was  written almost 70 years ago.  We’ll have to update it.

Where have all the normal gone, long time passing?
Where have all the normal gone, long time ago?
Where have all the normal gone?
The Woke have chased them everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

I don’t think they’ll ever learn, and what’s worse, they’re about to put their Woke dystopia on full display, as next year the Democrat National Convention will be in Chicago, the mass shooting capital of the world.  Those of you who are old enough may remember the 1968 Convention, when protesters rioted against a war and in support of those who were denied the protection of the law.  Latter-day Progressive Democrat rioters have a different motivation.  They rampage through the country denouncing anyone who dares to seek the protection of the law.  I guess that’s progress.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the American author O. Henry coined the term Banana Republic.  The term describes a politically and economically unstable country with stratified social classes, and a ruling class composed of the business and political elites.  A nation that’s a banana republic is run by the wealthy business elites and political leaders, who gain their wealth by exploiting the public.  Tell me that doesn’t describe the United States of America in 2023.  Do we not have stratified social classes?  The wealthy exist in a world of their own, exempt from the daily inconveniences that trouble the rest of us, like inflation, higher taxes, green energy restrictions and rampant street crime.  They live behind their walls, protected by personal security, fly on their private jets, and avoid contact with the savages in the streets by traveling by limousine rather than by subway.  Do we not have a shrinking middle class, courtesy of liberal Democrat policies?  And do we not have an ever-growing underclass, fueled by the erasure of our borders, and the illegal entry of millions of “migrants” who immediately qualify for government benefits?  Not convinced yet?  Another mark of a banana republic is  a corrupt media that serves the elites, and not the truth.  The words of Malcolm X are instructive on this point, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth.  They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power, because they control the minds of the masses.”  Look around.  Tell we’re not there.  The final component of a banana republic is the corruption of the justice system, which is weaponized for use against political opponents.  On this score, I refer you to this week’s indictment of former president Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.  Alvin Bragg is aptly named, because he gained election to his position through braggadoccio.  During the campaign, Alvin bragged that he had sued the Trump Organization more than 100 times and that, if elected, he would get Donald Trump.  He said this in 2021, when he wasn’t part of the Mahattan DA’s Office, and thus unconnected to the ongoing Trump investigation.  Now, I was a prosecutor for 25 years, not a fake prosecutor like Chris Christie, but one who actually appeared in court and prosecuted defendants.  The job of an honest prosecutor isn’t to name a target for prosecution, and then search for facts that might constitute some crime.  An honest prosecutor is presented with facts concerning a person or persons, and then decides if those facts contitute a crime that should be prosecuted.  Bragg used the KGB method, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”  Those of you who have followed these pages know that I’m not a MAGA fanatic.  I’m not looking forward to a Trump 2024 campaign.  I voted for him twice, and I’ll do it again if I have to, but I’d prefer a Republican with less baggage.  That being said, if you’re going to indict a former president, you ought to charge a real crime.  By now, you’ve heard enough about “34 felonies” and “136 years in prison.”  Take it from me.  Working for the NJ Division of Criminal Justice for so long, I saw plenty of shitty indictments, but the Trump indictment is pure horse shit, right off the stable floor.  Where do I begin?  34 felonies.  First of all, if the crime isn’t a felony, you can’t put it in an indictment, so sure their felonies.  34, not so much.  The whole indictment deals with payments to two bimbos, and a Trump Tower doorman, all of whom were trying to blackmail Trump during the presidential campaign.  Each of them threatened to reveal embarrassing information about Trump, and each signed non-discloure agreements, which the lying media (see above) calls “hush-money,” and were paid to keep silent.  The indictment doesn’t charge those payments as crimes, because they’re not crimes.  Non-disclosure agreements are perfectly legal.  Bragg’s indictment charges making false entries in business records about reimbursment payments made to convicted liar, and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, which listed the payments as legal expenses.  Bragg claims they were really campaign expenses, should have been logged that way, and paid for with campaign funds.  The FEC, which is in charge of such things, disagrees, saying that payments which would have been made regardless of an election, are not campaign expenses.  There are myriad reasons why a billionaire businessman and TV star would make those payments.  The upshot?  If Trump used campaign money, the Feds would charge him with a violation.  Because he used personal funds, Bragg charged him.  Doesn’t seem right somehow, does it?  So how do you get to 34?  It’s what’s known in the trade as a multiplicious indictment.  There are 11 monthly payments in 2017.  Each was split into 3 false records crimes for “making a ledger entry,” “making an invoice,” and “making a voucher.”  11 times 3 is 33, then add 1 for the doorman, and voila, 34 felonies.  Horse shit.  Then, these acts, if indeed criminal, are only felonies if they were done to aid or conceal another crime.  What crime?  We still don’t know, because the indictment doesn’t say.  Bragg says it’s not necessary.  The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution say otherwise.  A defendant must be given notice of the charge and must be able to understand that against which he must defend.  This indictment falls short.  You know, in New Jersey we sometimes name laws after people, usually victims, like Megan’s Law and Philomena’s Law.  Bragg’s indictment falls under what should be called Kafka’s Law.  In Franz Kafka’s book, The Trial, defendant Joseph K. is arrested and put on trial, but no one will tell him on what charge.  Here, Donald T. is called upon to defend himself from the charge that he was covering up another crime (unspecified).  We’re told it might be a campaign law violation.  That was detailed above.  Horse shit.  We’re told the crime might be conspiracy.  Conspiracy to do what?  Hold onto your hat.  Conspiracy to defraud the public, by not letting the bimbos reveal embarrassing information before the election, thus permitting Trump to win in 2016.  No, I’m not kidding.  If lying to voters to try to get elected was a crime, Hillary Clinton would be walking the Green Mile now.  And if Bragg is suggesting that the 2016 election was tainted, doesn’t that make him an election denier?  Not shitty enough yet?  How about all this shit is beyond the 5 year statute of limitations, which bars prosecution?  Here’s what I think will be Bragg’s answer to that.  The NY statute of limitations law has a part (b) that allows the deadline to be extended if the defendant was continuously out of the State.  Bragg will say Trump was in D.C., being president.  Don’t laugh, it might work in Manhattan.  All this reminds me of the Woody Allen movie Bananas, set in the banana republic of San Marcos.  “I object, Your Honor!  This trial is a travesty!  It’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham!  I move for a mistrial!”

I’m sure I speak for a lot of you when I say I’ve had about enough of Progressives.  Maybe it’s just a question of semantics.  For my money, the word “Progressive” suggests that adherents are interested in, or are working toward, the betterment of a society in which the individual is happier, healthier, independent, and economically secure.  However, a cursory examination of what Progressives have wrought proves this is not the case.  Uniformly, Progressives have succeeded in making people and institutions angrier, less healthy, incapable of independent thought or action, and destitute.  Progressives are sometimes called “woke.”  The newly accepted definition of the word “woke” is, “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues.”  This suggests that Progressives are acutely aware of and are in touch with reality.  If that was the case, I wouldn’t have a problem with them.  But sadly, they’re not.  Were they aware of and attentive to facts, then they would understand and accept the fact there are two, and only two, genders, not 57 like Heinz.  They also might be expected to be aware of the fact that males are incapable of giving birth.  They not only aren’t aware of these facts, they deny them, and denounce as heretics any who fail to ignore reality as effectively as they do.  This would be bad enough had Progressives not succeeded in cowing compliant politicians and businesses to accept their nonsense.  I say cowing, and not convincing, because I refuse to accept that otherwise rational people really believe this crap.  They are following the path of least resistance, but that path leads only to ruin.  University of Texas Professor J. Budziszewski recently commented on what he called the normalization of disorder and empowerment of lunacy, noting that many purveyors of “woke” derangement are con artists who do so for status, wealth and power.  The Professor noted that pushing unbelievable silly notions causes serious problems, such as, disfiguring and providing hormones to children to “alter” genders; having doctors actually debating whether to surgically amputate limbs of intact people who have decided to “identify” as quadriplegic; and sponsoring “Drag Queen Story Hours” for children.  Simply put, rather than advancing society, by denying reality, Progressives are destroying our society and culture.  And even more destructive is the damage so-called Progressives are doing to women and girls.  Those of us old enough to remember the 1960’s remember “the sexual revolution” and “women’s liberation.”  Females, too long devalued at home and held back at the workplace, found new careers open to them.  In 1970, about 3% of all lawyers and 6% of doctors were female.  Now females make up almost 40% of those professions and 60% of college students.  The enactment of Title IX greatly advanced women’s athletics.  This was real progress, but Progressives are in the process of erasing women as a gender.  The mania of trans-gender politics is out of control, and no good can come of it.  And the best examples of this mania can be found on recent lists of Women of the Year.  When Katherine Hepburn starred in Woman of the Year in 1942, she actually was female.  When contestants on the old game show Queen for a Day were crowned, they were women as well.  But not anymore.  Elle Purnell of The Federalist recently reviewed Woman of the Year honorees named by USA Today, Glamour Magazine and Time Magazine.  The preoccupation with trans-gender mania has rendered the lists both ridiculous and grotesque.  Here are some examples.

U.S. Surgeon General Rachel Levine.

She (He) has the distinction of having been named both Woman of the Year and Man of the Year (By The Babylon Bee)

Newly elected Minnesota State Representative Leigh Finke.  If one picture is worth a thousand words, none of those words would be repeatable.

The very elegant Caitlyn Jenner.  Enough said. MJ Rodriguez, a male stage performer who “identifies as an Afro-Latina trans woman.”  I guess that’s what you would call a quadruple threat.
“Women’s” Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who brings to mind the East German women’s Olympic teams from the Good Old Days of the Cold War.And, of course, swimmer Lia Thomas, who has made a mockery of women’s collegiate sports, resulting in true female athletes being denied the benefits promised them by Title IX.

To quote The Federalist, “Nothing says ‘we respect women’ like elbowing them out of their own awards to laud a man who makes a mockery of womanhood.”  The perpetuation of trans-gender mania evidenced by the blatant disavowal of reality of the Left is rooted in an attempt to make the abnormal seem normal.  Which is not to say that trans-gender people should be ignored or dismissed.  They exist, but their recent notoriety isn’t proof of societal progress, but merely a more widely publicized recognition of the plight of unfortunates who suffer from very real psychological problems.  What society owes these people is not the renunciation of all reason, and the denial of reality, but concern, assistance, and protection.  In short, we have a duty to tolerate, and to accommodate them as best we can, but we have no duty to celebrate them.  Our indulgence of that which is lunatic, unreal, and patently absurd is tearing the fabric of society to pieces, weakening us as a nation, and giving aid and comfort to our enemies.  I’ll wrap up with a perfectly ludicrous example.  This week, a trans-gender “woman” sued the TSA, claiming that a TSA search of “her” person at JFK Airport injured “her” testicles.  The Plaintiff said that “she” was left crying for over an hour because “my balls still hurt so bad.”  “She” doesn’t want the TSA agent to be fired though, but would like the TSA abolished altogether.”  Well, at least there’s one thing we can agree with.

According to Merriam-Webster, a dragnet is a network of measures for the apprehension of criminals.  Of course, those of us over a certain age associate the word “dragnet” with the old TV show, and later the movie, Dragnet.  On the TV show, Jack Webb, as Sergeant Joe Friday, doggedly pursued his quarry, and told witnesses, “Just the facts, ma’am.”  The point is that Sergeant Friday was pursuing real criminals.  Former President Trump has been the focus of a dragnet, not just from Friday, but 24/7, 365, ever since he came down that escalator at Trump Tower in June of 2015.  Trump has been insulted, disrespected, and defamed by a Leftist media that, at first made light of him, then feared him, then grew to hate him.  They’ve committed and are committing journalistic malpractice, and they should know better.  Worse, Trump has been pursued relentlessly by our so-called law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which have treated him, from day one, as a criminal target, rather than as a presidential candidate or a President of the United States.  This is an outrage because these bastards do know better.  And it’s doubly outrageous given the fact that all elected officials other than Donald Trump, get cut considerable slack from the justice system when they do things like, make fortunes from insider trading (nearly the entire Congress); make fortunes by trading with enemies like China (Pelosi, Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, McConnell, Swalwell, and a cast of hundreds); send pallets of cash to Iran, guns into Mexico that get people killed, and openly promise the Russians to go easy on them after reelection (Obama); ignore subpoenas, destroy evidence, take money from foreign nations, and buy phony evidence from the Russians to affect an election (Hillary); or blatantly run a crime family for 50 years, skimming money worldwide (you know who).  They do all those things and nobody cares.  Donald Trump has done none of those things, and he’s public enemy number one.  Why?  The establishment crooks run the system, and Trump was the outsider who threatened their phony-baloney jobs and vast illicit incomes.  Sergeant Friday might begin a show by saying, “We were working fraud, out of the Bunko Division.”  A bunko artist swindles his victims by gaining their confidence.  Politicians from both Parties are bunko artists, running our government as a swindle.  Trump proved he could outperform the fraudsters.  He showed them up, so he had to go.  A number of jurisdictions are trying to indict Trump.  Biden, Obama, and Hillary took classified documents – no problem.  Trump is a criminal.  Democrats burned down the country in 2020 – mostly peaceful.  Protest on 1/6/21 – insurrection.  Hillary says the 2016 election was stolen – righteous complaint.  Trump legally challenges the 2020 elections – a crime.  But this week, the worst offender, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, moved into the spotlight.  New York has been openly out to get Trump.  Attorney General James got elected on a promise to indict Trump.  Ditto Alvin Bragg, and his “case” is ludicrous.  Bragg has resuscitated the Stormy Daniels fiasco.  In true Sergeant Friday fashion, here are “just the facts.”  This sordid tale goes back to 2006, when porn star Stormy Daniels tells 60 Minutes she had sex with Donald Trump, who was then a TV personality, not a politician.  Trump denied it.  In 2011, Daniels repeats her claim to a magazine in return for $15,000.  Trump attorney Michael Cohen threatens to sue her.  In October 2016, Daniels is trying to sell her story to The National Enquirer.  Trump is now running for President.  Cohen negotiates a $130,000 non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to keep Daniels from retelling her story in public.  Cohen pays her the money, and is reimbursed by the Trump Company for the $130,000, plus $290,000 legal fees.  In 2018, Trump denies a newspaper report about an affair with Daniels.  She hires Michael Avenatti, and he sues Trump to cancel the NDA, permitting her to sell her story for even more money.  Anyone remember the Bill Clinton campaign’s “Bimbo Eruption” squad?  It dismissed claims by Paula Jones by suggesting “that’s what happens when you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park.”  No Democrat criticized that.  May 2018 – Trump says Cohen was on a retainer for legal work, was not connected to the campaign, and no campaign money went to Daniels.  In August 2018, Cohen pleads guilty, and goes to prison, for tax evasion, lying to a bank and a supposed election law violation relating to the 2016 $130,000 payment, which supposedly was made “to affect an election.”  Stormy Daniels’ lawsuit fails.  She’s ordered to pay Trump $293,000 for legal fees, and her lawyer, Avenatti, later goes to prison for being a liar and a thief.  Federal Election Commission (FEC) members later say there was no election law violation by Trump, because the payment was one which would have been made regardless of the election.  This was investigated by federal prosecutors, who concluded there was no case.  It was investigated again by former Manhattan D.A. Vance, who did not charge a crime.  Trump-hating prosecutor, Mark Pomerantz, who has compared Trump to John Gotti, was brought into Manhattan because “he tended to lean into creative theorizing and novel ideas about potential articles of indictment.” [Translation – create a crime where no crime exists, ala KGB Chief Lavrenty Beria, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”]  When no indictment was brought by Bragg, Pomerantz quit.  Bragg then announced, “the investigation is continuing.”  Bragg is said to be looking into whether the Trump Organization falsified business records of reimbursement payments to Cohen.  Bragg’s star witness?  Convicted felon and liar Michael Cohen.  That’s right, a 5 year investigation to concoct a case involving a bimbo and a liar, or is it lawyer?  Cohen’s former lawyer has told the grand jury that Michael Cohen has lied to them, because the testimony he described in public conflicts with his previous statements.  And it gets worse.  Bragg’s case is based on a NY law that’s usually not an indictable crime, and the statute of limitations has run on it.  It’s a felony only where it’s done with the intent to commit, aid in, or conceal another crime.  What crime?  The election law violation, that the FEC says isn’t a crime.  Oh, and by the way, the 5 year statute of limitations has run on the felony too.  The $130k was paid in October 2016, and even if you count the 5 years from the last payment by Trump to Cohen, that was the end of 2017.  Unless Alvin Bragg has something else in mind, this stinks.  A Texan might say, this is a dog that won’t hunt.  As this is written, two scheduled grand jury hearings have been mysteriously cancelled.  Stay tuned.

What never ceases to amaze me are the lengths to which Leftists will go to push their perverted ideologies.  We’re all well acquainted with Leftist efforts to alter reality.  In 2020, the FBI embedded agents in the social media companies and directed them as to what should be remain posted, and what should be removed and suppressed.  Their object was to affect the outcome of the election.  They succeeded.   In 2021, Biden tried to install Nina Jankowitz, a/k/a Scary Poppins, as the head of a Homeland Security Disinformation Governance Board, charged with deciding what was true and what was to be banned as “misinformation.”  In 2023 things haven’t improved.  In the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures Democrat Senator Mark Kelly asked representatives from the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation (FDIC) if they had a way to censor information on social media to prevent a run on the banks.  Typical Leftist response.  No matter how dark it gets, keep pulling down the shades.  It’s too bad FDR didn’t have the internet, the entire Great Depression could have been avoided.  Trying to alter reality is bad enough.  But not satisfied with that, the Left is now rewriting fiction.  They don’t want to burn the books, mind you, just rewrite them.  Recall they tried this with poor Dr. Seuss.  See, FOF 3/12/21, How the Left Stole Childhood.
They tried to change or cancel Seuss’ message that all kids possess the ability to achieve, to avoid what they imagined as racist content, content which only a psychotic Leftist could detect, and which conflicted with the Left’s message of victimhood and dependence.  Due to their brain damage, Leftists have developed the belief that they alone can determine, not only what’s good and what’s bad, but also what’s true and what’s false.  They tried their crap with the  Harry Potter books, but luckily J.K. Rowling has enough money to tell them to go pound sand.  And now they’re coming for British author Roald Dahl, who of course is dead, and can’t defend his work.  Dahl wrote such books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Fantastic Mr. Fox.  All are prized children’s books and popular movies.  But now, the books are being edited “to remove words that could be deemed offensive to some readers.”  This is being done at the behest of an organization named Inclusive Minds, that works for inclusivity in children’s books.  Can someone please explain to me why all written or spoken material must be inclusive?  If any and all statements must be engineered to give no offense to anyone, including lunatics who go through life offended by everything, we will become a race of illiterate mutes.  We’re well on our way to that now.  Decades ago, the Supreme Court provided the remedy for words that offend the reader, “avert your eyes.”  It’s a simple solution.  We’re not protecting children by attempting to shield them from anything that might give offense.  The world is not a perfectly hospitable place you might have noticed, and sooner or later these kids are going to have to decide for themselves what’s good or bad.  Free speech is guaranteed, and there’s no requirement that it be approved of, or of comfort to the hearer.  Plus, am I the only one who finds it odd that the people who seek to censor literature in the name of child protection are the same people who won’t lift a finger to stop kids from being gunned down in our cities, who find no problem with bombarding kids with rap music lyrics that rhyme every line with “Glock” or “Bitch,” and who promote drag shows and gender reassignment surgery for 5 year olds?  In any event, the Roald Dahl books are being “edited” in order to appease the Woke imbeciles.  Among the hundreds of changes, language not written by Dahl has been added.  In Dahl’s 1983 book The Witches, he writes that witches are bald beneath their wigs.  A newly added line says, “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”  We wouldn’t want to upset the witches, and have the entire cast of The View after us.  Now that I think of it, my first grade teacher, Miss Kirsten, was bald.  Then again, she may have been a witch.  The character Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no longer called “fat.” Instead he’s described as “enormous,” as though that’s somehow more “inclusive.”   Face the facts.  Augustus was a fat bastard, and I can say that because I’m a fat bastard myself.  Instead of being called “small men,” the candy-making Oompa-Loompas are now “small people.”  I’m surprised they’re not being removed entirely for having the same complexion as Donald Trump.  The morals of the Chocolate Factory story, and indeed of all the Dahl stories, lay in exposing the Bible’s seven deadly sins, including gluttony, wrath, envy and greed.  That’s probably why they’re under attack.  Traditional morality has no place in Woke Wasteland.  And this nonsense goes far beyond just children’s books.  Movies and movie characters are being wokified, or is it inclusified?  James Bond books are in the process of being rewritten to remove Bond’s nasty habit of rampant heterosexuality.  What we need is a kinder gentler Bond.  Maybe even a gay or transgender Bond.  Agent 00-Wierdo steps up to the bar and orders, “A kale smoothie.  Shaken, not stirred.”  I can see the rewritten script for Goldfinger.  “Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?”  “No, [Mr., Ms., He, Him, She, Her, They] Bond, I expect you to twerk.”  And the name of  the female lead will be changed from Pussy Galore to Androgyny Galore.  That’ll be popular.  If the Roald Dahl edits are the new normal, then I guess movies should avoid use of the word “Man.”  From now on, the word “Man” may be used in a movie title only when the man depicted is George Floyd.  Otherwise, “Man” is out.  The Man Who Knew Too Much will be The Man Who Forgot Everything – Joe Biden.  The Music Man will be The Rapper.  And while we’re at it, let’s mandate that all music in movies, television shows, and commercials must be rap.  We’re pretty much there already.  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence will now be The Savages Who Shot Everybody in Chicago.  And why stop at “Man?”  How about Sex and the Single Girl?  I guess it will have to be Sex and the Non-Binary Birthing Person.  If all this sounds ridiculous, it’s because all attempts to rewrite history, to turn truth into lies, and to pervert artistic expression to bow to Woke idiocy are ridiculous insults to our constitutional rights.