Okay, we are living in Alice in Wonderland times. Up is down, the sun rises in the West and sets in the East, the Earth is flat, and saying something many, many times makes it true. Which is what our current president must think, because he keeps repeating the same nonsense over and over again. “There is no collusion” he bellows. Any news that casts him in a negative light is “Fake News”, a cry that has been taken up by various strongmen throughout the world. Our president Trump is giving
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full-fledged (not wannabe) dictators the imprimatur of the president of the largest democracy in the world. Donald has shown no respect for the rule of law nor for the Constitution of the United States, yet he considers himself a law-and-order president.
Trump has shown no respect to the country he was sworn to represent. He consistently behaves as though he was a Manchurian president, installed by Russia and working for the Russian government. He is dragging our country’s reputation down by treating our allies like dirt, while cozying up to murderous dictators such as Duterte and Putin. They are “strong” and they command his respect, while our democratic allies who we need as much as they need us are treated like weak rulers.
Trump and his family, as well as his Cabinet, are making a joke of the emoluments clause in the Constitution. He and his family have profited to the tune of many millions of dollars from his presidency. His Republican party in Congress has thus far refused to even try to rein him in. And yet, the Republican party has traditionally considered itself the law-and-order party, as opposed to the “soft on crime” Democratic party. Which is an old canard without any factual basis.
The law of the land in America is not dependent on who you are, what you are, how much you have, or anything that makes us different from each other. We are all the same under the law. Trump and the Republican party want to selectively enforce our laws. The president can be elected with the help of a foreign power. No problem, say his enablers. He can profit wildly from his office. No comment. He can destroy our alliances that have kept the world in one piece since 1945. Change the subject. He can lie like a rug, throw our intelligence agencies under the bus while cozying up to dictatorships. He can openly advocate prison for a political opponent. He can openly ask a foreign power for help finding “30,000 emails” of Hillary Clinton’s. It’s funny how, a year and a half after the election, Trump is still talking about her. It’s because he needs a scapegoat to work his con.
Donald Trump and his attorney general Jefferson Beauregard Sessions are viciously enforcing a law at our southern border in a way reminiscent of dictatorship policies. Taking children away from their mothers. Hey, that’s the law. If you don’t want to suffer, don’t break the law. That is what they say. But here is the truth: These men are bandits and traitors. Using racism and tribalism, Trump and his crooked administration have convinced a large number of extremely dense people that they have their best interests at heart, and that they are doing right by them and helping them. I don’t see it. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe, doesn’t see it either. Joe is a former Republican and he is still a conservative, but the Republican party no longer represents his values. He really has a way of showing the truth.
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Joe Scarborough is a well-known conservative with a real gift for oratory. He knows what a traitor looks like. He also knows what a fool looks like. He calls them out. And I am with him every single solitary step of the way. He is an American man, not a weak traitor kissing up to dictatorships or supporting those who fit that description. Trump’s base is a bunch of people who fit the categories of sucker, racist, feeble-minded, tribal, and I ain’t done yet. I could continue, but you get the picture. I am sharing the country with a whole bunch of deplorables. The people who still support Trump after all that has happened, those people, they can’t be reasoned with. They are too far gone. They can only be defeated at the voting booth. They need to have their leaders removed from power, so they can no longer damage America, so they can no longer try to pollute rivers and American skies, so they can no longer take health care away from the sick, so they can no longer remove consumer protections from predatory banking practices, so they can no longer enact tax policies that favor the wealthy and cause injury and sickness and death to the poor.
Trump, Majority Leader Sen. McConnell, and House Speaker Ryan are partners in crime. They are not working for the good of America. They are working for the wealthy and white Republicans. They need to be removed from their jobs. This article from The Atlantic has some advice on the subject. I intend to follow that advice for the rest of my life.