Day 900

Day 900 Tuesday June 25, 2019

496 Days until the 2020 election and 574 days until the Inauguration

Push Back Tuesday

I’ve gotten a number of different inputs from friends that are Trump right wing supporters. I think it’s time to push back against this wall of crap they keep throwing up. 

There’s the guy who sends me a long list of terrible things Hillary did, and Obama did, along with snide childish remarks. There’s the person who keeps posting headlines from right wing sites that are about anti-abortion, the need for guns, how the Dems are terrible, etc. And there’s the person who posts how president Trump is working every day tirelessly to protect us and why can’t we just leave him alone and let him do his job?

Okay, let’s review the most recent headlines and stories:

The 16^th woman has come out and accused Trump of sexual assault, in this case rape. The story is corroborated by two people she told at the time and follows a similar pattern to the other women who said Trump assaulted them.

Texts between Sean Hannity and Paul Mannafort have been revealed. Apparently, they had ongoing communication before, during, and after his trials. It is well known that Hannity enjoys an especially close relationship with the president. If this isn’t witness tampering and Obstruction of Justice then how about…

The Mueller Report, which details ten instances of Obstruction of Justice by Trump. In every instance, all the criteria for Obstruction of Justice are met. Former prosecutors have said they could make a very credible case for obstruction. In fact one even went so far as to say he could do it with his eyes closed (or something like that.)

The scientists at one agency have been told their jobs have moved to Kansas City. They have one month to move, on their dime. This would put them away from the resources they need to do their jobs. Why the move? Seems the administration doesn’t like their reporting various facts, scientific facts.

The DNI and other agencies have stated global warming is a threat to national security. What does Mike Pence think about this? Well shucks, it’s an opinion right? Well, they’ll follow the science. That’s great, do you see it as a threat? Somehow, Mike can’t say those words.

Meanwhile another scientific report on climate change has been released. Let me summarize the conclusions of the report for the people and the regions, all the regions, of the United States of America (including Hawaii, Alaska, The Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico) – we’re fucked. NE – warmer weather less snow, severe flooding; SE – big hurricanes, severe flooding, many parts permanently underwater; Midwest – dry, hot, huge crop failures, flooding, Texas and that area – tornadoes, hail, flooding, big big storms; SW – dry parched earth; NW – less snow, less fresh water, more rain; West – fires, floods.

A news report says 350 immigrant children are being housed in an adult facility meant for 155. They are forced to sleep on concrete floors, have no soap, toothpaste, or tooth brushes. Ten year olds are caring for two year olds. To get fresh air you have to stand on a toilet. The facility has recently undergone an expansion to a metal windowless shed. There are outbreaks of lice. We, the taxpayer, are being charged upwards of $750 a day for this service. The administration response? Well it’s the Dems fault because they won’t give us more money. 

Financial reports show that the Trump tax bill enriched the rich and did nothing for the economy.

The deficit has increased at a record pace. Two trillion dollars in two years – a new record.

The pro-death movement (sometimes called pro-life, but they ignore the fact that their charade of every life is sacred really kills women) is getting encouragement because of all the right wing justices Mitch McConnell has steamroller through. Mitch used to be pro-choice to first get elected then switched sides. 

Speaking of Mitch, what has he done? Blocked any legislation that would help people, and put through onerous hateful legislation that makes the middle class poorer, and less healthy.

Meanwhile Mitch’s wife has been busy helping her dad, enrich himself at the public trough, and siphoned money to Kentucky for her husband’s re-election via various highway projects. She also had a huge stake in a highway gravel company, which she didn’t divest herself of until caught.

Kelly Ann Conway is guilty of running afoul of the Hatch Act. This says you can’t do political business on the government property or their dime. I don’t know, do you think doing so in the White House or it’s driveway counts?

Trump was asked if he’d accept information from a foreign power that could help his re-election. If you haven’t seen the clip I urge you to do so, because it shows you what this guy is all about:

He’s asked would he take the information or would he call the FBI?

He says he’d do both. Well, maybe both. He’d certainly listen to what they had to say. (He left moot whether he’d call the FBI.)

Then he justified this by saying, “There’s nothing wrong with listening.” Yeah, except it’s against the law, but that’s a trifle the prez doesn’t know (?), believe (?), or care about (+++).

When it’s pointed out that it’s agains the law and his own FBI director says so, he then steels his position, “He (the FBI director) is wrong.”

So we go from facilitating, to thinking out loud to reach a conclusion, to cementing one’s position to an illegal act.

Trump has picked up the rhetoric against Iran. Since backing out of the Iran Nuclear Deal what does he have to show for his efforts? Nothing. Zero, Nadda. Iran is close to violating one of the parts of the deal. Great job Donald! Trump is threatening war. Great job Johnnie Bolton. Meanwhile the U.S. had imposed more crippling economic sanctions and it’s resulted in pissing off the Iranians. I’m sure they are ready to negotiate with Bolton and crew now! (NOT.)

Meanwhile the economic trade war with China is really hitting our farmers. They are going deeper in debt because of it. Trump has given them millions to help, but they have lost billions. (Too bad we can’t find money for soap for those immigrant kids we kidnapped. Oh well.)

The right has gone crazy over AOC’s comment that we are running concentration camps. We are. What’s the debate? Oh, right, Kevin McCarthey (the guy who wanted to be speaker of the House and made up names of countries) says Ms. Ocasio-Cortez should learn some history and then he goes on to demonstrate his lack of knowledge on the subject. Hey, guess what? AOC is right on the money and the right wing and Republicans got it totally wrong. What a surprise! (NOT)

In the weekly Prince of Whales award Mr. Trump has said they are freezing the assets of the leader of Iran and names the dead Ayatollah. Great job, Mr. president!

In other news, I saw that there is actually a re-election team for Trump. They report being “Flexible” because they really don’t know what The Donald will do next.

Oh yeah, and there’s a report out that shows that the transition team knew about the problems with many of the picks for cabinet posts and the like and the administration went ahead and picked them anyway. So much for getting the best people. And some of those people? They had come right out and said what they thought of Trump. None of it was positive. The administration took them on anyway. Yet, they were willing to work for this man anyway. I mean at least long enough to enrich themselves as much as possible.

There’s also the report that an actors were hired to attend a recent Trump rally. Maybe, we can hire actors to attend too? The signs and t-shirts I would suggest might be slightly different than those the folks who were told they would be paid $50 would say. (We haven’t gotten confirmation that these people were paid, btw. I mean if we know anything about Trump we know he stiffs people.)

There have been more shootings. What was the number this week? Three? Somehow we can’t seem to stop them.

The level of hate crimes is at record numbers.

The number of immigrants has risen sharply. So much for deterrence.

This is mainly just the news of the last few days. 

So what has Trump done for us? I mean what positive thing has he done for you or me in the last week? 

If you have anything, I’d like to hear it. 

I’ve listed what I know, and none of it is positive.

There is one positive note. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched their heavy rocket. The two side stages were recovered and it is going to deploy 24 payloads in three different orbits. To bad Trump wasn’t president when this immigrant came to our country. He might be in a cage, instead of building a rocket company, a car company, a solar company, and founding Paypal.

496 Days until the 2020 election and 574 days until the Inauguration

PS Yeah! (I have no idea.)