"While I accept the results of elections and he is going to be the president whether I like it or not, I for one cannot yet bring myself to even say his name right now. My hope is that he can show me something very soon so that I can. Believe it or not, I hope he can show me something so that I can actually become proud that he is our president".
In spite of what you may have read from what I have written here and elsewhere, I truly believed what I had written at the time. I truly hoped that with the campaign behind him, he would turn to governing, and that the immensity of the task would transform him from histrionic race baiting, misogynistic, etc. campaigner into something presidential and worthy of calling a leader.
Today, I surrender.
I am not going to get into the campaign complete with the pussy grabbing nonsense, the race baiting, and his refusal to state whether or not he would be willing to accept the result of the election if he lost. The mere fact that he refuses to let go of the fact that he did not win the popular vote tells you he would, in fact, have willingly created a potential constitutional crisis if he had, in fact, lost the electoral college vote.
I am not going to get into the nearly all male lily white cabinet of curiosities he created to drain the swamp, including a collection of people who were primarily unqualified for the position appointed, including one who outright said he was not qualified for any position in the cabinet and then accepted a nomination to the position he now holds the very next day. So we have a secretary of state who had no prior government or foreign policy experience, matched by a U.N. Ambassador who also had not foreign policy experience. We have a secretary of education who does not believe in public education, but does believe we need guns in schools to protect the children from grizzly bear attacks. We have a secretary of energy, who when he can remember the name of the agency he now heads, has no degree or experience in nuclear energy or arms, which he now presides over. We have a secretary of the interior who has apparently discovered that a comprehensive study of national monuments he intends to remove from the protected list of national monuments can be conducted while smooching with his wife somewhere in the Greek Islands. We now have a head of the environmental protection agency who believes he can protect the environment by removing every environmental regulation he can find. What he does not believe in is climate change, leaving us in grand company with Syria and Nicaragua upon our withdrawal from the Paris Accords.
Etc.
No I am not going to get into that.
I am not going to get into the fact that in seven short months, he has denigrated the value of the United States of America to the point where North Korea... NORTH KOREA... is talking and acting in terms that are being taken seriously as amounting to a threat of war against this country. He is openly talking about starting a nuclear war with a peanut dictator, a war that considering the alliances of various countries involved, could thrust us almost instantly into a mass global nuclear event. There is no indication whatsoever that he has given any thought to the consequences of his words or his actions that have either led to this moment or could follow his pushing the button.
I am not going to get into the fact that he cannot control himself to the point that his closest advisors have apparently given up on advising him to stay away from twitter. I firmly believe in the first amendment, but would support legislation forbidding any president from posting ANYTHING other than perhaps directions for the public in the case of a national emergency on twitter.
I am not going to get into the fact that he violates the emoluments clause of the constitution daily via refusing to divest himself of his businesses or place them in a truly blind trust, while at the same time charging the government for offices in his buildings, rooms in his hotels, etc. We will not even get into the nepotism involved in appointing family members to government position, who have no business being near any governmental position of authority.
I am not going to get into the fact that he can routinely denigrate in schoolyard terms anyone who has the temerity to oppose him, to the point where it can now reasonably be said that there will be no significant legislation of any kind that can be expected to be passed for the foreseeable future for the simple fact that he cannot get anyone in congress to work with him. It takes a special kind of talent to get Mitch McConnell, whom I have previously called the worst person in the world, to no longer be on speaking terms with you.
On the other hand, while he can routinely excoriate people, who unlike himself or anyone in his family, have spent their entire careers in public service, even if you do not agree with their politics, he cannot seem to unequivocally bring himself to condemn nazis, white supremacists and the ku klux klan. You would think this is the easiest thing he would ever have to do; however, I have no doubt that I could get my cats to issue a clear condemnation of the nazis, white supremacists and the ku klux klan before I could get him to do it, and then not backtrack on his words the next day. And I would not even have to offer the cats the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you ever saw.
I am not going to get into the fact that he apparently has never seen a fact he cannot lie about. You have to wonder about the state of the presidency when it reaches the point where you can tell the president has said a lie simply because his lips are moving.
No, I am not going to get into any of this, even though he has turned us into the laughing stock of the world from all of the above and more.
I am simply going to point to today.
1. He has brought us to the brink of war with North Korea, while at the same time increasing the number of troops dedicated to the quagmire in Afghanistan without any apparent strategy for how that is going to end this abomination, other than his assurance that we are in it to win it, which is about the same strategy I have used in the past in playing the lottery. Hint, I have not yet won, but inspired by the president, next week, I will spend more money to play more numbers. In the mean time, while he is bringing us further into war, for no real reason I can discern, today, he actually signed that order disqualifying transgenders from military service. He can point to nothing at all that shows that patriotic persons who happen to be transgender cannot serve ably and honorably. Instead, he hides behind the canard that unidentified generals have told him they cannot absorb the cost of gender transition surgery that obviously all transgenders are using the military to obtain. I assume I will be seeing an executive order shortly banning the military from spending any money on viagra.
The bottom line on this is that at a time, when he is ramping up military adventure, he is reducing those eligible and who are otherwise qualified to serve. In other words, he is deliberately setting us up to have a weakened military in a time of war.
In my book, that is treason.
2. He has pardoned a man, who is about as disgusting a figure in public life to come along in decades, not waiting for the courts to issue their final verdict in the form of a sentence upon him. It appears quite possible that this pardon comes simply because the man supported his candidacy early and never wavered in his support. You can support the policies of Joe Arpaio if you want. It is certainly your right. He was not convicted of any such policies. He was convicted and found in criminal contempt of repeatedly ignoring federal court orders. You cannot ignore or support this. This is a country built upon the rule of law. Without respect for the law, we are no better than any tinpot dictator in any banana republic, including North Korea.
And now, I am hearing and reading about talk that he is looking for ways to pardon himself, his family, friends and cronies from anything to do with Russia and Robert Mueller's investigation.
So in one single day, putting aside all the other nonsense since January 20, he has weakened the military simply due to the fact that he can't stand transgender people for no logical reason, and undermined the rule of law in this country.
I said on November 9, 2016 that I could not bring myself to state his name. Now I can.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A MONSTER. HE IS A MENACE TO THE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE DEMOCRACY WE SEEK TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
DONALD J. TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER.
DONALD J. TRUMP MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE FOR THE GOOD OF THIS COUNTRY, AND FOR THE GOOD OF THE WORLD.
HE MUST BE IMPEACHED OR REMOVED VIA THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT.
WE CANNOT AFFORD TO WAIT ANY LONGER.
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