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gaeilge hannigan
8 min readJun 15, 2020

People are crazy and times are strange, I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range, I used to care, but things have change ~ Bob Dylan’s opine on his countries president, Donald J. Trump.

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These are the pathea writings of Bob Dylan’s 1991 Academy Award winning poem, Things have Changed. Dylan continues….

“This place ain’t doing me any good, I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood”.

While Bob Dylan’s magical thoughts were written as a poem over three decades ago, to be sure, it sure sound like the words of Donald J.Trumps thoughts.

I’d be sure Donald Trump would rather be in Hollywood then his current fortified world. The White House has become a self-imposed prison, if only in thought. There be nothin mindful, however, about a second security fence, additional guards and security….A house under seige!

Trump really does love fences….Or was it walls?

Fences and security filter the reality that ‘Times have changes and people are crazy’, in America. Recent polls indicate 70 percent of Americans now show some level of support for America’s Black Lives Matter movement. This support has expediently risen with the very sad public murder of George Floyd. Unfortunately for this President, America’s ‘times have changed’ with his nations growing rejection of the ravages of vile racism, violent oppression, discrimination and poverty.

America’s current pandemic and consequential economic collapse, an ever ongoing catastrophe, have accelerated…

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