This president has got to go.
i am tired of being lied to.
I am tired of seeing our precious democratic institutions dismantled, one by one.
I am tired of seeing the procedures and process’ our government uses to keep and protect our freedom, subverted on a daily basis.
I am tired of the corruption, the corruption of our systems, legislative, legal, and moral.
This president is a cancer on our democracy, and a real threat to freedom. Not just American freedom.
This president has put all Democracies in jeopardy.
Uprooting long standing relationships that have held this tenuous world together after two major world wars.
Dragging up and legitimizing extreme factions, not only here in America, but across the globe.
Giving air and legitimacy to groups that had long been dormant and rogue nations that had been quite well isolated.
Every cabinet appointee this president has put in place, has been summarily debased, and what the president cannot debase and control, has been thrown out of the government and replaced by some unqualified lackey that will do his bidding.
His campaign speeches were full of “I’ll have the best people, the smartest people” in all positions of government.
“What have you got to loose?”
We all know now, fairly well, the answer to his rhetorical question.
I can’t understand how this president still has a 38% approval rate.
Don’t get me wrong. I, like many people in this country longed for a non politician to come in and shake things up. Trump looked like that man.
As a New Yorker, I knew the Trump brand, the Trump mystique, Trump the TV person.
But it didn’t take long for me to see what the real Trump was.
Every time the man opened his mouth during the campaign, he embarrassed me.
In a short amount of time, it became apparent to me, that this man was in no way a leader, and i could not support him.
I remember the night he (won) stole the election, the look on the faces of the people on the streets in New York City.
How could this have happened to us? Why did this happen to us?
Never did i think this man would sell us out so wholly, so completely, and do it in broad daylight, and thumb his nose at us.
It’s easy to blame someone, to make them a scapegoat, but Trump isn’t totally to blame, he had lots of help.
And it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Trump is just the symptom, not the disease.
The institutions that he is so effectively dismantling, were already being chipped away at.
In 2008, the day after Barack Obama was legally and unequivocally elected as President, Moscow Mitch came out on TV, declaratively stating,
“Our job now (as Republicans) is to make Barack Obama a one term president”
Obviously, there was great fear and trepidation on the part of some of our governmental leaders that White America could not, would not tolerate a Black man as president.
I, for one, thought that Obama’s presidency was a sign of hope for this country. That the ghosts of our past could finally be vanquished and the possibility of a united nation was real. That there was promise and hope for the discriminated, the downtrodden, the forgotten.
The promise of America seemed so real.
But the Republicans would have none of that.
They stonewalled on every piece of legislation he proposed past their retaking of the house in 2010.
They changed congressional procedure to make it easy for them to pass legislation on their terms.
Remember the “Tea Party”?
I do.
Withholding key appointments across the board, not even allowing confirmation hearings, withholding a Supreme Court nomination from a duly appointed President.
Now, Republicans fill those seats with lifetime appointments to the judiciary, all in the conservative vein, so that their will can be done,
Not the American peoples will, their will.
Appointments that were Obamas fair and square.
To play political ball with these people, you have to sell your soul, if you still have one to sell.
But I have to say I have equal disdain for both parties, but i also see a critical difference.
The Democratic party seems to stand for the people, and the Republicans stand for Big Money.
You need only look at the differences in the polices and legislation they pass, the causes they espouse.
in 1974, the supreme court decided in Rowe v. Wade that a woman had a right to determine what she could do with her body, without government interference.
But again, not good for the Republicans. Lets just legislate the shit outta that on the State level.
No worries there, we just gerrymander the shit out of the voting districts and we get to keep and hold State Senates permanently, so legislation passes the Governors desk unobstructed.
Regardless of how their constituencies feel.
A woman lay brain dead in a coma for 6 years. Her parents, after making the heart-wrenching decision to take her off life support, were further tortured by the Republican Party, now insisting on interjecting their politics into a private and deeply personal decision.
So vexed were they by this, that they were ready to forge the signature of a dying man at his hospital bed to get their way.
This is hardly a compassionate group, despite their Bible thumping.
They tend to look out for themselves and their big corporate donors.
Tax breaks for the rich, trickle down bullshit.
If all these huge corporations paid their fair share of taxes, there would be no problem providing for the needs of those in this country.
We could have decent, affordable health care for everyone.
Our Elementary and High Schools would be the most advanced in the world, turning out the most advanced students, prepared for a College and a career, with out the associated debt that they currently pile on, just to make sure they will be able to survive in a diminishing economy.
Our bridges and roads would be the envy of the world, instead of being a crumbling, falling down mess like we have now.
At first, I saw the Trump presidency as a fluke, an abhoration.
There was no way this man could ever sustain a political career.
Just as he was an effective “useful idiot” for the Kremlin, he is just as equally a “useful idiot” for the Party that installed him.
So they protect him as he (they) destroy one institution after another.
I now fear the damage is much greater and longer lasting than i ever could have imagined.
Fear. Division. Corruption. Dismantling pillar after pillar of democracy.
And once they are down, they chances they get rebuilt are slim to none.
Scandal after scandal. Lie after lie.
He lies about the attendance of his inauguration.
He lies about the size of his hands, he lies about the weather for Christs sake!
How thin skinned is this man?
He calls the news “fake” when he dosent like it.
Black is white, up is down, the sky is yellow.
He parrots the talking points of a political propaganda channel (Fox, i won’t even use the word “news” next to their name).
How Orwelian.
And how can we ever believe a word he says? As citizens, its depressing. As a leader of a foreign country, its downright dangerous.
If our allies can’t believe him, how can he ever be taken seriously by those nations that would do us harm?
Quite the contrary.
He coddles dictators and eschews those nations that have stood by us to defend democracy around the world.
He installs criminals and contemporaries that use our government for their own personal gain.
Scandal? Drain the swamp???
Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal. Scott Pruit, George Popodopolos, Micheal Flynn, Paul Manafort, Tom Price, Rob Porter, Rick Gates, Micheal Cohen, Ryan Zinke, Roger Stone, Alex Acosta. The list is so god damn long we need a wikipedia page to keep track of them all (Thank you, wikipedia!)
There is no doubt that when Trump is voted out of office next year, it will have been the most scandal ridden, corrupt and self serving administration ever.
And not just self serving. Serving the Corporate interests that would pollute and destroy this earth without conscience.
And don’t even start with the Russians.
Trump was an international business man. He easily could have said “look, i do business all over the world. and yes i have interests in Russia”
End quote. And probably end of story.
But he didn’t. He lied. And why do people lie?
To cover up the truth. So there is an unstated truth about your dealings with Russia.
Lets look into that… Yeah, lets spend time and taxpayer money to figure how Russia has you by the balls.
Truth? Easy, Heres Bill Barr, Atty. General for the United States.
Theres nothing in the Mueller report, keep moving, nothing to see here.
Unless you read the report, and see for yourself, that after 18 mos of investigation, there were only ten or so times that Trump interfered with our Justice system to save his own sorry orange ass.
Obstruction. Subterfuge. Deceit. Lies.
From the highest office in the land right down to his belly crawling, penis sucking lawyer, Guliani.
What a disgrace. And the disgrace just keeps on coming.
People, wake the fuck up.
This man , strike that, i would not would not use that word to describe this terribly awful entity, this parihia is selling out our country, our future, our freedom to those that would do us the most harm.
And wait. i have a feeling that when its all said and done the NRA is going to figure prominently in all this.
Why would Russia want to back the NRA and the promote the gun industry in America?
They certainly don’t want ordinary Russians to have guns. No, they want US to have guns, so that when the revolution comes, it makes their job all the more easier.
And i have no doubt, that when the revolution comes it won’t be Left vs Right, Liberal vs Conservative.
No it will be the Far Right, the Radical Right, the ones with their pick up trucks and AR-15s that rise up against the more sensible Right, because they won’t lean far enough.
Division. Divide and Conquer.
And you see the battle lines being drawn even as you read this.
And for those on the Left, smarten up. Because your part of the problem.
As you castigate the Right, you create the division, just as much as the Right does.
You’re playing into their game, giving them their self supposed reasons for keeping their guns, their segregation, their hate.
Love your brother. We all don’t share the same ideas, the same beliefs, the same vision.
But we are ALL Americans. And we damn well better start behaving like it.
Before its too late.
I don’t need to shout “lock him up”. That makes me as bad as they are.
“Vote him out”
God has a special place for this bastard, its not our job.
Our job is to make sure Trump is one term president. An aberration. A fluke.
We have a voice, one that was given to us 240 years ago.
Its called a vote.
Do it.
Like your life depended on it.
Because, now it does.
Like i said, this president has got to go.