As I write, the President of the United States is:
- prolonging a stalemate of his own making,
- to push through a policy his own Congressional party members don’t support,
- while rejecting any possible short term or long term compromise,
- by stalking out of a meeting when he doesn’t get everything he wants,
- and ignoring the suffering of thousands more people every day.
He is threatening the besieged people in a disaster area with stopping funds keeping some of them alive or able to get food and shelter:
Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen. Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!
Every day the suffering from his deliberate malice increases as more and more federal workers, their families, and the essential programs they run fall into an unnecessary black hole of uncertainty and distress.
Every day more and more families who already live paycheck to paycheck are not even getting those paychecks.
Every day more and more services are being degraded through neglect.
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A human-caused cancer is spreading from DC throughout the country and why?
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Because the President is hostage to a cabal of extremist radio and TV hucksters making big bucks through shouting hate and disseminating hysteria.
Because spineless legislators cannot bring themselves to stick up for their constituents by standing up to this insanity.
Because “mainstream” media outlets are trapped in the quicksand of “both sides” reporting and analysis, and trade investigation and critical reporting for “access” to the powerful and malevolent.
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We’re told impeachment is a “political” process, but what does that mean? That 51% of Americans have to support it? 60%? 75%? Or that it doesn’t have to be a crime on the books?
On the one hand, I agree with Democratic leadership, which says we need the authority of investigations in the House;and/or the Mueller Report.
But imagine the anxiety of not being able to support your family, pay your expenses, of defaulting on your debts, foregoing college, falling into medical debt.
And the President, the “leader of the free world,” not only doesn’t give a shit, but is deliberately creating and prolonging that anxiety and suffering.
The tweet about cutting off funds for the California fires got to me. Something snapped. You just don’t threaten your own damn people and retain the moral authority to be President. It’s no longer the Emperor’s nakedness that’s being ignored. It’s the vacuum where his soul (a word he had the gall to use last night) should be, but never has been.
Every Democrat should be saying at every opportunity, this man is not fit to be President because he is purposely harming his own people, and
If deliberately harming or threatening to harm Americans is not an impeachable offense, what is?