One? The other? A combination? Whatever one thinks it is, it is definitely disgusting, an embarrassment to the country, to its people and in front of the world. When an investigation actually brings up a deepening concern that the president of the USA might actually be a traitor, a turncoat, a player for Russia, well, what is there left to say?
From the beginning there was a weird vibe between the two, Trump and Putin. It set off shivers down the backs of many knowledgeable people who wondered at this phenomenon. It sent shivers down the back of Pentagon officials who could not figure out this man and the moves he was making, so many that we are now in mutual threats with Russia, China, Korea, Iran and in ragged relationships with all our former allies. We are alone. We, the USA, now stands alone, in its deplorable state of the union. Folks, that is so dangerous a position that simply putting us there should constitute treason.
That is, unless the entire mess has come about due to incompetence and corruption. Then it is stupidity, cupidity, selfishness, nastiness, cronyism, nepotism, all the negatives one can think of, all personified in the beings known as Trump and his minions. This is not a good situation either, is it?
Or should we say instead that we have an evil and foul smelling mixture, a revolting mess, consisting of all the above? One cannot be so blindingly stupid, not realizing that we have enabled our enemies to step all over us, to turn the world upside down, freezing out our allies, allowing a foul mouthed weirdo to run off that mouth and tweet away at the very basis of our country.
When so many, at last count at least 16, of the campaign workers have ties to and with Russians during and after the campaign, that is a shrieking red alert siren. When the supposed top public servant can have one of his minions state that the furloughed and unpaid federal workers are better off because they are on a vacation! WOW!! When the man can say there is no chaos in the White House because there is almost no one there anymore save him, well, duh! So who is running the show???? No one, evidently.
When the chief whine is that the poor man cannot get back to his posh private club, Mar a Lago, well maybe he should go on Ebay or to a plethora of yard sales and to the tables of flea markets as public servants sell their belongings to pay at least some bills and put food on the table. Perhaps he might hire a few of the hundreds of thousands who are now looking for tideover jobs, or help the contractors not getting paid or the rolling and roiling consequences of all this money staying out of our economy and the secondary and tertiary rings of losses in this nasty spitting contest!!
The man who lives in the glass house has no qualms about throwing stones. He who had multiple extramarital affairs, is nasty to Bezos in his mess? He praises the National Enquirer for that news story, the same paper, if it can be called that, that played dirty with his payments and the story of them with his 'lovers'? The whole thing is sickening, filthy and just awful and there appears to be no end of this whole disaster in sight.
That is, unless the Republican Senators, the highest representatives of the people in our government save the President and VP - Lord help us on that one - unless they grow several pairs. Unless they can find their spines. Unless they can understand morality once more. Unless they can truly understand and undertake their responsibilities. Until they can stop the schoolyard bully in his tracks. And if they do not, well, then the Democrats will have to continue to play hardball, push for impeachment, push for Article 25, call for impeachment of Senators who refuse to do their job. Or something, because if not, well, there it is again, the sound of battle, the sounds of death, the sounds of the ripping apart of the best thing we have given to the world - a working democracy, not perfect, but striving, always, for improvement.
I am not a member of government. I am only a citizen of this country and hence bear witness and responsibility for its path, just as all of you out there do as well. It behooves us to think very carefully about our options here, to wake up and smell not the coffee, but the disaster awaiting us just over the horizon and in fact, already peeking over that very same horizon. Time is running out. Options are being cut off. Delay is not helping, and indeed is exacerbating the situation.
Nasty? Yes. Incompetent? Yes. Stupidity? Yes. Treason and treachery? It is truly becoming clearer and clearer in our sights that this is so. Yes? By accident or not, by aim or not, the result is the same. Folks, time to push for action. Time to demand change, even if only to wake those Senators up to the disasters they are foisting upon this country, upon their constituents.
Put this posting together with the posting of yesterday and see what we have got! The math is not good! Nor is the reality of it all.
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