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Going around the Internet currently in reference to Effingham Donald Trump
POTUS: President of the United States
SCOTUS: Supreme Court of the United States
SCROTUS: So-Called Ruler of the United States
I think I have a slightly better one:
SCROTUM: So Called Redeemer of the Unlettered Masses
We had a small gathering at our house the other night in celebration of Robin achieving another year around the sun. As sometimes happens the conversation turned to politics. At least in our circle, these conversations never last a long time as we are all in consensus in being appalled and distressed at the current state of the country and the country’s politics.
I made the comment that Trump had started me praying again, a funny thing for an agnostic to do. I do pray sometime, but I look at it as a way of focusing on what is upmost on my worry prone brain. I elaborated by explaining that I pray every day that Donald Trump Continue reading “How do we get Trump to IKEA?”
yeah I know you did not ask!
I thought there could never be an American President dumber than or worse than George W. Bush. Effingham Trump has proved me wrong.
From the article in The Atlantic How to Build an Autocracy:
“Those citizens who fantasize about defying tyranny from within fortified compounds have never understood how liberty is actually threatened in a modern bureaucratic state: not by diktat and violence, but by the slow, demoralizing process of corruption and deceit. And the way that liberty must be defended is not with amateur firearms, but with an unwearying insistence upon the honesty, integrity, and professionalism of American institutions and those who lead them. We are living through the most dangerous challenge to the free government of the United States that anyone alive has encountered. What happens next is up to you and me. Don’t be afraid. This moment of danger can also be your finest hour as a citizen and an American.”
We should all be very concerned. Part of me wants desperately to run and hide from this cluster fuck that is happening to us. We need to heed David Frum’s advice.
Rightly or wrongly voting for or supporting Trump has become a litmus test for me. In an attempt to articulate my arbitrary position I have come up with the following reasons:
In past elections I could at least see where there were some basic philosophical differences that would cause us to vote differently. That is how is should be, that is why we have elections. However, this election resulted in putting a thug in the White House. There was a stark difference in an America for the people versus an America for Trump’s ego. And if you are responsible for enabling that egomaniac, do not expect to see a Christmas card from me.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” ~~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I went to Snopes.com to verify this quote. At the end of the article they stated:
” In the blunt vernacular that he loved to use, LBJ was describing what the television pundits of today would probably call the politics of resentment and divisiveness. It is still very much with us.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” ~~ Joseph Goebbels, German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Below is from a New York Times article, With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift
He also called journalists “among the most dishonest human beings on earth,” and he said that up to 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, a claim that photographs disproved.
Later, at the White House, he dispatched Sean Spicer, the press secretary, to the briefing room in the West Wing, where Mr. Spicer scolded reporters and made a series of false statements.
He said news organizations had deliberately misstated the size of the crowd at Mr. Trump’s inauguration on Friday in an attempt to sow divisions at a time when Mr. Trump was trying to unify the country, warning that the new administration would hold them to account.
Strap on your seat belts, while he has been lying all along, it is going to get much, much worse. At one level, I do not believe this man is in touch with reality. His brain is operating in some alternate, dysfunctional dimension.
I will have to agree with Trump on one thing he Tweeted, ““Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote?
The fact that this so called leader is still ranting on Twitter should be scaring the shit out of any reasonable person. I know that there are certain types of people that will always be drawn to power, but it perplexes me why any sane person would associate themselves with this obscenity masquerading as a human being.
Inauguration Day 2017:
I am driving home on Interstate 64 which is 4 sometimes 5 lanes wide as it goes through the St. Louis metro area. Traffic is snarled up. It turns out there is a vehicle in the fast lane driving way below the speed limit which puts him about 20 mph slower than the rest of the traffic is moving.
As I get closer I see it is an older Subaru being driven by an old man. The back of the car is covered up with Trump bumper stickers. In the back window is a big hand lettered sign that reads “Face It”.
I did the only logic thing. I flipped him off as I passed him on the right. It is going to be a long 4 years.