Dear Democratic Senators:
Please arrest our president.
Now that President Trump has been revealed to be a Russian asset by the FBI and the New York Times, is the shutdown over? Can we go back to work, or are we still Putin around waiting for a compromised president to tell us what’s good for America?
I’m a disabled senior who gave a lifetime to hard work and accrued 23 happy years of education. Today I am extremely anxious and traumatized by this president with no brain and no heart who now turns out to be a witting Russian asset.
I write because I depend on food stamps. I’m grumpy, too, because just the threat of no food is traumatic for seniors and families with infants and students. And from a traitorous president? How did that last two years?
The Republican majority, lying for him every minute, tolerant of his links with Vladimir Putin, allowed five secret meetings between Trump and the Russian president, and Trump ordered all notes destroyed. And each time, the Republican Party obeyed and protectedTrump, protected Putin the enemy. And all this chaos for two years. They must pay for this treason. We’re late to put out the fire because of them.
Part of my expertise in school involved Cold War history, which, as we see, isn’t over by a long shot. Another part involved assessing the Department of Defense’s potential for climate response, since we pay for it and it’s so vast. So, I know a bit.
But today I am a victim of skyrocketing rents while senior benefits remain fixed. I sell my blood eight times a month to get by. How Trumpian is that? I cannot survive even a slowdown in assistance, and have nowhere else to turn. By Trump’s moral standards, I must be blunt to make the point: I’m a "s***hole American.”
Senators, my 68-year-old sister lost her house in Paradise, California, and suffered a stroke. In the ongoing chaos there, I'm having trouble finding her again. Meanwhile the president, whose perspective is permanently locked in a Manhattan penthouse, once again blames her state for not raking its forests, and its rivers for not diverting themselves from “the North.”
Mostly I’m afraid for our country. This weaponized Donald Trump holds the White House and all Americans—indeed, the pace of progress worldwide—hostage to Russian interests. He belittles our past heroes and presidents while claiming to be the best human ever. Obviously to him, we are all "s***hole Americans," and that’s what he thinks of our nation, just like a Russian operative: Take it or leave it, I really don’t care do u?
As many of Trump’s crimes involve Russia, his whole administration must have pledged loyalty to Trump over country to keep their jobs. And if Russia is the center or source of these distractions, why are we tolerating it for one more minute? The highest crimes possible are being committed: Putin is in the White House disassembling America from inside.
Trump's administration has shuttered the government to weaken vital resources, looted parts of the Treasury, blocked the movement of whole groups of people (Norwegians exempt), imprisoned children without their parents, gutted wholesale environmental protections, fired or replaced scores of our best diplomats around the world with fools or more often no one at all, and threatened any investigation into itself put forward by the people of these United States.
Tyranny. All the while we look on, too stunned to act, not believing our eyes, fumbling in the dark for our Constitution to see what it says about handling a foreign attack.
THIS IS WAR.
These crimes in myriad ways impede the survival of all inhabitants of Earth. In need of an Every Day is Earth Dayglobal mindset, we project buffoonery. The administration’s own climate report just gave us a 12-year deadline to plan and prepare without delay for the most costly and deadly challenge in human history. But, while commissioning that report, the Trump administration was setting us back decades by diverting every useful resource away from the problem and unleashing in 2018 our worst carbon spike in years.
It is an attack.
It is intolerable.
It needs to be shut down.
America is being trumped into extremely vulnerable territory. We can’t accept this national reversal any longer. We can’t let this compromised man erode our strength, unity, and time. We can’t wait for trials and investigations while open tyranny and foreign influence persist. Stop treating Donald Trump like a leader of the free world. He is the opposite.
I have wondered why so many Republican representatives visited Russia during the last two years—and they were well compensated, judging by their gleeful expressions there. Are they compromised too? Is that why they help Putin, protecting Trump even now?
God save the FBI.
Your Honors, our government needs to be at peak performance to prevail through this attack and beyond. Due to the catastrophic failure of the Republican Party to act to stop a foreign power, or even raise the alarm to impede a takeover of US affairs by the Russian government, it now falls upon the Party of inclusion to secure our Defense by all means appropriate.
Proud of America getting this far under a gangster president with direct Russian ties—and knowing how little time remains to spare—Senators, I implore you: Surround this White House and serve subpoenas, and take them into custody.
BY VISIBLE AND ORDERLY DEMONSTRATION OF FORCE, CARRY OUT THE PROCESS OF REMOVING THIS ADMINISTRATION FROM POWER.
The Republicans have abdicated responsibility and should be temporarily suspended, presumed compromised, and rehabilitated. Reopen with the opposition party in power for a predetermined duration. Rededicate our nation to rapid adaptation for the challenges ahead, appealing at every opportunity to our inspired youth to work creatively as caretakers. Apologize to our neighbors and allies. Rebuild Puerto Rico. Establish an ever-growing emergency fund. Do the right things with all possible speed. Fly us away from this debacle, and take America safely into the future.
Many seniors are personally imperiled. While I run out of food on the first day of each month, a spoiled president threatens to unleash ruthless king-like powers to keep a malignant, racist campaign promise that would leave a monumentally deep scar on our precious land and national psyche. And while America and Donald Trump’s alternate reality have split for good thanks to the FBI and the New York Times, there is no sense of comfort while he holds powers of destruction. Who knows what he will do next? Trump tweets while Paradise still burns for many.
So, for his countless victims, and to ensure an intelligent American future of peaceful cooperation free from foreign attack, please execute a mission to remove this unstable traitor from office immediately.
Lastly, I’m not special and wasn’t born rich, but I come from a city whose innovation routinely rocks the world. I’m American, compassionate, honest, diligent, which I hope is about average, and I brag about a hometown at the hub of the universe. I care about justice and getting down to work with all nations, except Russia, and I’m tired of Trump telling me I like tariffs. (I also love history: Tariffs are a tragic joke.)
How do we recover from compromised Republicans? With Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy a Putin plan, pulling out of NATO and the G8 and G20 a Putin plan, the wall a Putin plan, judicial nominations steered by Putin's Republicans, all to disrupt unity in the US, to cripple democracy, to wound the Democratic Party—everything needs to be reconsidered without Republican input.
Mark Twain advised those under stress to practice humor. I think of Trump trapped within four cold high walls in the company of a hair-crazy cat, day and night. No phone. No press. No mirrors. No golden toilet. And no Band-Aids. It’s a feel-good story for personal tranquility, compliments of Sam Clemens.
But here I speak for millions of other passionate seniors who perhaps, like myself, can barely type or have other restrictions so they can’t speak out. The majority population still owns common sense, and this administration’s threats deserve a cascading rebuke from those discouraged, confused, damaged, weary, and rightly alarmed by this defilement of national fabric. Wherever we are, in any state, posted overseas, or living in another country, what has happened to the United States has diminished us. Yet if we respond by vibrantly embracing the world, once again shining hope on common ground, we may ourselves discover uplifting renewal through our youth—and in the process achieve the simple unity to transcend wisely the summit of the grand climate challenge and survive to flourish beyond.
This is how I feel. Long live Robert De Niro.
Thank you for your time. I appreciate your service and am grateful for all you do. Contact me if I can be of assistance.
IntelligentFuture
Bellingham WA