I've been wanting to write about and
have avoided writing about the current administration in equal
measures. Another year and a half of the Republicans giving Trump
free reign and this country will be unrecognizable as if it's not already.
It's Memorial Day and I think this
just about sums it up. I saw this post on FB two days ago.
Such a special day! Get your Trump
MAGA gear now!
And he tweeted have a 'happy' Memorial Day. Be happy as you pay your respects and mourn our war dead.
And to top it all off, he has so
little respect for our military criminal justice system that he is
planning to pardon convicted war criminals guilty of murdering
unarmed restrained prisoners and shooting and killing innocent
unarmed Iraqis. And here in Texas our Republican controlled state
congress has passed another voter suppression bill that would make it
more difficult for our wounded and disabled veterans to vote.
Meanwhile Sec. Of State Bolton is
beating the war drum against Iran with questionable 'intelligence'
and VP Pence tells West Point grads that they should expect to see
combat, and Trump tells the UN to accept rape as a weapon of war (and
I guess torture as well since he thinks that is a pardonable
offense).
And on the this Memorial Day weekend
Trump tweets from Japan that he not at all upset with N. Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un test firing missiles. As usual he stands with a
murderous tyrant and against our own intelligence community because he and Kim share an opinion on 'low IQ individual' American citizen Biden but I don't know why
that would be surprising since he gave Saudi Arabia a pass for it's
brutal murder and dismembering of a journalist and has declared
another one of his fake national emergencies in order to bypass
Congress who refused to OK the sale of billions of dollars in weapons
to that brutal regime while Princess Wannabe Ivanka sits next to
Saudi royalty and praises their record on women's rights apparently
not understanding that if she were that man's wife or daughter she
would not be sitting there but would be sequestered in the women's
quarters.
So yeah, happy Memorial Day.
In other ruinous Trump policies, the
trade war with China, which is raising prices for American consumers,
is killing our farmers (figuratively and literally as suicides are up
and bankruptcies are at an all time high) who we are having to bail
out with a 'socialist' program from the government who has caused the
problem in the first place amid reports that farmers haven't seen a
penny so far except for a Brazilian company who got $62 million.
Trump finally got his puppet in AG
Barr who claims a president, this president anyway, is above the law
and who is obstructing House intelligence committees, refusing to
honor subpoenas (while he sends a woman back to jail for refusing to
honor a subpoena) and filing lawsuits to protect Trump because that's
what innocent people do, right?, obstruct justice and refuse to
testify. Not satisfied with simple obstruction of justice Trump has
now demanded Barr investigate the people who he considers his
political enemies for treason. And the Republican party just sits
back and lets it all happen while sitting on every bill the House has
passed.
Now the states that the far right
Republican Christian Taliban controls are passing illegal total
abortion bans criminalizing women (but giving the men who don't want
to be fathers and who impregnated them a free pass) while they cut
pre and post natal health care and access to birth control with the
intent of forcing the issue back to the Supreme Court where they
think they can get RvW overturned with Trump's two appointed
justices.
And finally this little bit...after
denying Trans people the ability to serve in the armed forces and making their service on shaky ground if they already serve and trying to
make discrimination against LGBTQ legal so that they can be denied a
job or fired from their jobs or denied adoption or US citizenship to
kids they have already adopted or denied health care or refused at
homeless shelters because of 'deeply held bullshit religious
beliefs', the Trump campaign unveiled a new T-shirt...LGBTQ for Trump
for Pride month. I shit you not.
Had enough? I have.
I can only recommend Netflix Wanda Sykes special, good juju- anything Orange fuckery is crap. do not engage...do not make eye contact...I have an app on my PC that changes anything Orange fart into kittens, so I can not see what you have done here, clever as it may be, I do like kittens better
ReplyDeleteI try not to immerse in it but turning a blind eye is a double edged sword. I'd just as soon nothing snuck up behind me. and yeah, kittens are good. have the live version here for one more day.
DeleteKittens might be good, but my relationship with my four adult cats suffered when I kept getting phone calls from the local Republican coalition asking if one of the other of them would be willing to man phone trees. Only then did I realize that all four had registered online as Republicans. Given that I bombed this bad raising cats, I can but be thankful that I never had children.
DeleteWell you know you're preaching to THIS choir.
ReplyDeleteMy son, who is transgendered, posted a picture of that shirt on FB with the perfect response which was, "Go fuck yourself!"
Pretty much sums up how I feel about Trump and all of his minions. And supporters.
Why can't we DO anything about this?
yes .. just yes to what you wrote-
ReplyDeleteregards-barb
I cannot talk about it any more. I have drowned in trump shit. I will be there when it counts. I can spend the next 18 months resisting.
ReplyDeleteAnd to top it all off the man is an idiot. Some days I just can’t believe any of this is real.
ReplyDeleteOMG, you are good. The way you string all of that together, amazing.
ReplyDelete25% of your Memorial day order?? That can't even be happening, seriously, that can't be happening. There is no bottom to this low.
I am sooooo fed up with the rethuglicans and their president Lump. I'm hoping that when 2020 comes and we finally get someone anyone to run against Lump and they win that the infestation will be over. But we will have to win the Senate too. Otherwise it will be just like when Obama was in. Nothing gets done because the rethuglicans stop the flow. So everyone needs to get out and vote to end the infestation.
ReplyDeleteMost of America has been worn thin with the corruption and immaturity and lack of empathy, etc.etc. But I am of the belief we cannot stick our heads in the sand. We cannot be worn down. People died for our right to speak out and protest and investigate!
ReplyDeleteI had enough during campaign season, even before he got elected!!
ReplyDeleteThis has to stop. On all levels.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if I can send my dentist bill to Capitol Hill for the damage occurring from grinding my teeth. All I can do is hope for an overwhelming turnout of reasonable, thinking, decent people at the voting polls. This filth has to be taken out by a tidal wave. A tsunami of compassion. We need to wipe them out.
ReplyDeleteEvery day I get up thinking it can't get any worse, and then it does. The whole thing is just soul sucking.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just heard that the Supreme Court upheld an Indiana law requiring that aborted fetuses be cremated or buried.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Wanda Sikes comedy special is great; gave me LIFE. I run in spurts. I get all up in arms, then a few days or a week later I burn out and have to retreat and regroup my psyche. It's all just like a horrible nightmare that I begin to wonder if we'll ever wake up from. We put so much trust in Muller for 2 years and now no signs of him sticking up for his findings. I guess patience is not a strong suit for me.
ReplyDeleteEllen! As an occasional reader of your blog post, let me add that you touched on an issue that can never be emphasized enough. This administration, and the Republican Party in general, have continued their immoral assault on women disguised as a pro-life issue. When in fact, they would like to see the clock turned back to the time when only white property owners could vote and hold power. In my view, these mainly white men are only protecting their interests, much as the signers of the Constitution were protecting their interests. Women were often considered subordinate to men then, as they are now too far to many men in power.
ReplyDeletethis topic is a whole blog post on it's own and yes I agree with you, they are trying to take us back to the 50s when women were viewed as little more than adult children with many educational opportunities, job, and economic opportunities (like credit cards) closed to us and when women who complained or made waves were drugged into silence or beaten into silence. WWII let the genie out of the bottle though when women kept this country going while all the men were off fighting and the men have been trying to stuff us back in that bottle ever since.
DeleteIt is CRAZYMAKING. Sigh.
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