Day 1129 Are the ghouls coming out?
Thursday October 31, 2019
370 Days until the 2020 election and 455 days until the Inauguration
Happy Halloween!
These are scary times. The president has blatantly committed crimes – in private and in public.
The Mueller Report outlined ten instances of behavior that met every point of the crime of Obstruction of Justice.
The House is investigating the crime of asking a foreign government for help in besmirching the reputation of a potential political rival of the president and that government being threatened with the withholding of aid if they didn’t do it.
There are also the illegal contributions that the Trump campaign has
taken in.
There are the multiple instances of taking money from foreign governments and from domestic players. All in violation of the Constitution.
Those are just the crimes. It does not speak to the terrible decisions he and his administration have made. Withdrawing from Syria being the worst. But there’s the horrible treatment of immigrants, be it putting kids in cages or telling families of sick children they have to leave the country. (Isn’t it weird that Ken Cuccinelli, a staunch anti-abortionist pro-lifer is the person behind a policy that would kill children?)
There is the ongoing debt. Something Trump said he’d eliminate, but in fact has made much much worse.
There is the disastrous China trade policy. Something that has caused farmers to go bankrupt, stifled manufacturing here, inflicted higher prices on the American consumer and cost our country hundreds of thousands of jobs.
There is the doing the bidding of Putin. Trump’s fawning behavior. His secret meetings with Putin.
There is his revealing of classified information to us, and to the Russians.
His desertion of our allies.
His belittling of NATO.
But maybe it’s like Sean Spicer on Dancing With The Stars? Maybe, it’s a “so what?” attitude by those who support him. Does it matter that Sean is terrible? Or Trump? Maybe not, because he’s really showing them! Whoever them is. My conservative friend thinks this is great because of the way she said “liberals howled” when he was selected. Furthermore, she played the victim card, they support him because of the way he and his family were treated when they went out to a restaurant. What is fascinatingly sad about this is that the idea of the show is to pick the best dancer. At least that is my assumption, maybe not, maybe it’s something else. She readily admits he’s not the best dancer. But the support by conservatives is I guess because people didn’t like his being selected and because he got yelled at in a restaurant. Do they feel the same way about Hillary and how she was treated? No.
The idea of talent and ability is being swept aside for what? For an “We’ll show them” attitude? Where does that end up? How does that benefit anyone? How does Sean feel when he sees people more talented than himself sent home? What if he wins it all? What does that say about us as a society?
370 Days until the 2020 election and 455 days until the Inauguration
PS Welcome to Belize (flashback March 2018)
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