Friday, November 11, 2016

never my president


Well, here it is a few days later and overt racism, bigotry, and hatred has exploded across the nation via graffiti, verbal attacks, and actual physical violence and, most troubling, a lot of it in our schools. The reports showing up on FB and Twitter are endless.

I did not like George W. Bush. He indebted this nation for his illegal war, created worldwide terrorism, took money from SS to pay for his folly and then claimed SS was no longer viable, he plunged this country into a severe recession through republican policies but still I accepted him as president. I will never accept the racist bigoted misogynist fascist admitted sexual predator Donald Trump who has encouraged violence, citizen against citizen, as president. Never. I won't go low with disgusting memes like the republicans have done for 8 years with President Obama, but I will never ever give him the title of President.

I find it amusing that he is calling for us all to come together. Who exactly is he talking to? The blacks he calls thugs, the latinos he calls rapists and murderers, the muslims and other non-christians he calls terrorists, the women he calls disgusting and thinks he can just sexually assault because he's rich, the other gendered he intends to let people discriminate against? What a fucking joke. Has he condemned any of the violence against these people that he has demonized for a year that has exploded since he was elected? No, he has not. But he has tweeted that he thinks the protests against his election are 'unfair' even though he planned to do the exact same thing if he lost..

And his repeated pledge to curtail lobbyists and rid the government of special interests, he didn't want them, wouldn't use them? His transition team is full of lobbyists, his financial advisory team is full of veteran Wall Streeters, and bankers are in the mix to be Treasury Secretary.

Get ready because Mitch McConnell has already said repealing the ACA will be their first act of Trump's presidency. They have nothing to replace it with of course because they don't really care how many Americans will once again die from treatable illnesses. You think your premiums for shit policy were too high under the ACA? They will skyrocket now under an unrestrained for profit health insurance industry. And that's just the beginning. Good job Trumpers.

Well, you people who voted for him, you got what you wanted. You swallowed a big turd and it's going to be stuck in your throat for 4 years.  Congress will now go after every social program that you depend on.  Food and housing assistance?  Gone.  Social Security and Medicare?  Slashed at best. Disability?  Go get a fucking job. The first amendment?  Go directly to jail. The EPA?  I hope you like your water and air poisonous.  Our national parks and preserves?  Sold to the highest bidder.  That heinous peaceful nuclear restraint with Iran?  Get ready for war.

You know, the worst part of this is not that all the liberal compassionate advances we have made that will be rolled back, it's the loss of any moral character that this nation had. It was a grand experiment, this melting pot, this democratic endeavor, but it's gone now. The constitution means nothing to them.

RIP America.  It was nice knowing ya.




19 comments:

  1. Oh Ellen, so true. He's not my President either. If I could afford to, I'd leave the country for four years. When Dubya was elected for a second term, I decided I couldn't go on hating him and Cheney and Wolfowitz and Rumsfield and on and on. I decided I would have to find something about Bush that I liked to go forward. This will not happen with Trump. He has no redeeming value; is everything I despise in a man or woman. I idolized Hillary and waited for this election for two decades so it is going to take a long time to get over this. Civility and goodness has become the minority in our country. Yes it is still alive, but greed and prejudice and hate has become the majority.

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  2. Too depressed to comment. Going to get rid of this sadness and try to form action.

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  3. It will be a helluva mess to begin to clean up in four years.

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  4. Thank God for you, Ellen, for your words, for your guts and for your no-fear in calling this violent criminal just that, a violent criminal.

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  5. The man is a pig. But he isn't the country. We must never forget that.

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    1. apparently he's half the country. sorry, no one who voted for him gets a free pass. not from me. they elected a man who bragged about being a sexual predator. they laughed it off and normalized and accepted that behavior when they voted for him. they might as well have offered their daughters up to him Old Testament style. they normalized violence against the citizens of this country that are not white, christian, and male. They can't say they didn't know when for the past year all he has done is demonize everyone who opposed him and incited his followers to violence. as far as I'm concerned every one who voted for him is just as guilty as the ones one actually do the spray painting, the taunting, the physical violence. I don't hear ANY of them speaking out about how this is not right and not to be condoned much less Trump. Now they just want us to roll over and get along while they are attacking us. Yeah, I'm pissed and deeply troubled by the current character of this nation.

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    2. or rather half the people that voted which cuts down the percentage considerably.

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  6. I hope that the government bureaucracy will save the situation. The y will tell President Trump that there are many he things he just cant do, because the consequences it will have, and because it's against laws and international agreements signed by the USA.

    Cold As Heaven

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  7. Oh, Ellen. What are we going to do?

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    1. you know, I have thought about taking this diatribe down since it follows right on the heels of the other one but you know, I'm just not over it yet. don't know if I ever will be. half the country elected a lying, cheating, vindictive scumbag. I know they think the same of HC but the big difference is they have no proof and we have mountain loads.

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    2. well, half the people that voted. seems about half of us didn't.

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  8. Exactly...I took my flag down and it will not go back up...I will not support this regime of his, he is so full of himself if I were him I'd stay clear of all grassy knolls!

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  9. The worst part of all this is that so many of my fellow citizens fell for this guy's lies and hypocrisies. Trump is arguably the most immoral person ever to win the presidency. I'm really struggling with this.

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    1. my opinion of the moral character of a large segment of the American population has taken a serious hit.

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    2. What Stephen said is exactly what troubles me most of all. The fact that there could be so many people, many of whom are seemingly intelligent and kind, who accept this as okay. I just don't get it. I am heartsick for my beautiful neighbours to the south.. and for the rest of the world. I just don't get it.

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  10. Amazing to me how my thoughts come out so precisely in YOUR Words. I don't blog. Nothing to blog about. I do appreciate many who do; it gives me some relief to know that I am not totally crazy. I just told said yesterday that the America I knew as a child is gone. If I had a flag, I would have to hang it upside down. If so many voters think that lowlife is representative of the people here, I don't fit. At all. Thank you for saying it. I just feel so helpless. My husband said, "he will be watched, maybe impeached." Not with the courts and Congress on the same team! I think that maybe the scariest part is that we don't know who will be deciding what. We know that man doesn't have enough brains to find his way out of a paper bag---as my mom used to say. So WHO will be making decisions? I am coping by hiding my head in the sand. And appreciating rational people where I find them. Thank you for being one!

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  11. A daily devotional at the Lutheran church I voted at had confession as the thought of the day in a booklet called Portals of prayer. I thought of that for a thought for all up for vote, they tell us only what we want to hear.

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    1. that maybe so but I would rather hear 'better together' than 'others are evil'

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  12. I wake up in dread every morning now. Only thing that helps is the mobilization of opposition.

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