So aside from noticing that the man has tried to tame his orange hair mop, the one that people imitate with "dead" animals sitting atop a head, apart from that new part he has all the way down the left side, what has this man done for his country? Let us check the ways.
Well, everything has become personal. If one goes against something that Trump wants, woe upon him or her or them. The attack is personal, as for instance that Twitter attack on the judge who ordered the ban. He became a "so-called Judge", a "ridiculous" one, even as he is known to be a respected mainstream Republican one and the issue now is will Gorsuch speak out against this attack on the judiciary as it exercises its rights and duties in America or will he join the list of wimps and wooses who cannot find their backbone?!
We have had a parade of Fat Cats thru Congress on the way to approval, a bunch of foxes for the henhouses of various departments, people who either are just plain ignorant - DeVos is a good rival to Palin in that area - or they are people who actually are tied up in suits against the very department they are to head or they have spoken against it and are all in a rush to destroy everything that protects us, the little people, the environment in which we live and our very safety in the financial and economic areas. So back to the future - back to 2008, back to financial advisers free to rip off the investors, back to oil spills and chemicals ruining our waterways and lands, back to no healthcare for all, back to anything that is wrong and as for voting rights? HA!! Don't even go there.
According to Trump's robots, there is a "basic principle that an alien seeking initial admission to the United States requests a privilege and has no constitutional rights regarding his application." Even I know that that is not so and a perversion of our laws and Constitution. It has always been so and only this man wants to change it - he and his fellow fascists, America Firsters.
And it does not stop there. I have never seen such an animosity towards or rather against a President and in the first two weeks. All we get from his waning support team is "give him a chance". What does that mean? Till when? Why? Till he destroys us? Till we can figure out an answer to a question that I was asked by a visitor from overseas - "What have you people gone and done?" And I cannot answer her for I have no answer that would explain the travesty of an election, the nastiness, the incompetence that has risen to the top, the stupidity that has allowed a man who is called Pence's Poodle" in a national poll to rule us. So who runs this guy - Priebus? Bannon? Pence? A cabal? Certainly no one with a heart or a soul.
Trump has been a suspicious character for quite some time. His ethics are nonexistent, he has been sued over and over again, gone bankrupt, had to settle a huge claim against his Trump University and has made efforts to stop such a thing from happening again - not the fake schools, but the suit against them!! He has been called a Manchurian Candidate and just listen to the latest. Bill O'Reilly and even in 2015 on The Morning Show, asked Trump about Putin and his killings and assassinations against journalists who opposed him and other dissidents and his response? "There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers,” Trump said. “Well, you think our country is so innocent?”
"Trump added that he thinks the United States is “better” getting along with Russia than not.
“If Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, and Islamic terrorism all around the world, major fight. That’s a good thing,” Trump said." Dear Lord - his English alone!!
This is our president? Not mine, not mine. For the first time ever when asked to recite the pledge, I stood there with my hand in place but the mouth did not open and the words did not come out. Is this my country anymore? Whose country is it? Does it belong only not even to the 1% but to the .001% and the rest of us are peasants, serfs, with no freedom, no hope. That is not my country, not the land to which I pledged allegiance to my whole life. That is not my country that I grew to love and honor, to look upon with pride, the country that made mistakes, some pretty bad, but a country that looked at itself in the mirror and made strides to improve and right wrongs. When we once again have such a country then I will recite that pledge loud and clear and until that happens, I will pledge in my heart, pledge to the
Constitution, to the people who fight this fascist, this know nothing, this dangerous man and his dangerous henchmen. That will be my country and my president. This one? Feh!!!
What we now have is a government that has made and is still looking to make mass arrests of protesters, looking for ways to keep those charges and take people to trial. They are massing at protest scenes and taking pictures and videos, all the better to get names and know who they are. And why? To arrest them as we fall deeper and deeper into a country that follows the rules and laws and philosophy of fascism? We are told that "Judicial second-guessing of the President's national security determination in itself imposes substantial harm on the federal government and the nation at large". Well, guess what? That is the job of the judiciary according to the Constitution - to check and recheck, to balance and to hear the voice of the people, protect the people against an Executive Branch gone wild.
What is even more frightening is that this is the first time that I have read and heard of mainstream people, big people, little people actually calling for the removal of this man from office, no matter how. I have called for his removal, his impeachment, his being charged with whatever applies, but have called out against violence and yet I wonder how long people will resist if they feel a sense of futility, of nothing will get done unless the pace is stepped up. So Sarah Silverman tweeted "WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE
and then took it back with "FEAR can motivate even peacenik snowflakes 2 incite violence & last night I felt it hard. Trying 2 keep in check bc damnit I love u America'But she is not the only one. From calls to resign and ever onwards the news is not good. There is a sense of separation in the country and that never leads to good endings. Here is what one respected columnist wrote and you tell me - where are we going? What have we done? How do we stop this? How do we get our best minds on this project and figure out how we negate that last election and get our country back on track - along with the rest of the world.
"...what we're hearing sounds like a man who is out of his depths and out of control, who can't even pretend to master his feelings of personal insecurity......utter chaos.....fresh debacle....America and the world can't take much more of this. Think about it: If you had an employee behaving this way, you'd immediately remove him from any position of responsibility and strongly suggest that he seek counseling. And this guy is commander in chief of the world's most powerful military.
Thank you, Comey"
I am afraid. and so should you be. The tempers are high, the stakes are great. 'I pledge allegiance to the flag....." where, oh where, is my country?
Just had a conversation with my grandson and he told me that no, this IS our country, all the people protesting , that is the country and Trump and his people, they are not. So.....I will pledge allegiance to that country and hold in my heart the knowledge that we do have hope from this younger generation. Thank the lord for that. But....I am still worried as we go through the turmoil and torment that this guy engenders. Impeachment anyone?
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