Like most of you, it does not take long before my daily groan in disbelief or frustration at a move from the Trump/Conservative regime, creates echoes in my home. It has nothing to do with partisan rancor or cheerleading for my political philosophy. It is just tiring and frustrating to wait for the next, ‘breaking news’ graphic to crawl across the bottom of my tv screen or smartphone. Brett Talley is being considered for a lifetime judicial appointment with just three years of experience in his briefcase and zero courtroom time. The son of the President just admitted passing notes between Russian “cutouts,” like a sixth grader and the Attorney General is on his third try at the revised truth. Lost between the tabloid headlines of the Trump show, nuclear war looms with childish threats being volleyed between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Trump calls Kim, fat and short, Kim shoots back a spitball with some silly moistened epithet and it goes on and on. Meanwhile, Republicans are again plotting incremental healthcare repeal and blowing a potential 1.7 trillion-dollar tax cut hole in the budget, and blond Nero fiddles, “believe me.”
The American public’s grasp on it moral certainty is being reduced to the microcosm of the Senate race election in Alabama. Republicans over a four-day period have gone from calling a group of women, liars-- for exposing they were targets of possible sexual misconduct, pedophilia and alleged attempted rape, to Mitch McConnell’s declaring them authentic. This from a party that has castigated liberal Hollywood publicly paraded Bill Clinton accusers before TV cameras at one of his wife’s debates performances and has had its propaganda machine, Fox News, call Democrats everything from un-Godly to un-American.
Today the President trolled for thanks from three young men just returned from China for shoplifting but is his ethical high ground deeply compromised. The President who is asking for self-congratulation in his role for their release, cannot find the words to condemn an accused pedophile, maybe his own audio confession of multiple groping incidents prohibits a full-throated condemnation. We have a President who looks for ego stroking to elicit decency. Thanks for the “beautiful letter” but say something negative and you are wiretapping me, thanks, Obama. AG Jeff Sessions who did everything but bow at the feet of the President on the campaign trail was humiliated by the President for not bending the integrity of the Department of Justice to his [Trump] will.
Did you just hear yourself groan…?
This administration is a daily exercise in patience and endurance; from the hopes of no embarrassing international encounters to edicts from either the WH or its staff, that is full of either lies, miscalculations or just plain distortions to create good press for an insecure President. So, another sunrise and another day of Trumpism. This leads me to ask, if you have not already said to yourself, “sheesh” or, “not more Trump” I am not sure if I should pity or congratulate you, but what keeps bringing us back for more?
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