Day 647 Thursday October 25, 2018 934 Days to Go
Well, a few things have happened since yesterday:
The stock market has crashed wiping out all gains made in 2018.
Trump has said he’s a nationalist, which puts him in the same class as Hitler.
Bombs have been delivered to the people Trump most lashes out at in his rallies.
Trump says, “We are looking into it.” Then went on to lash out at the same people.
btw “We are looking into it.” is Trump speak for “I haven’t a clue, and I’m not doing anything about it.”
Take for example his saying U.S. personnel are looking into the killing of Kashoggi. The president would hae to authorize that. He hasn’t. Is that due to ignorance or willful “I don’t give a f*ck” ? It’s hard to say.
The Republicans have run adds attacking George Soros as the guy behind all kinds of stuff. He’s 88 years old and has contributed to the Democrats. Yet, he’s being attacked for things like funding the caravan coming up from Mexico and god knows what else. The Republicans even ran a new add attacking him after a bomb was delivered to his home.
Meanwhile it’s been reported that the Republicans have run up the biggest budget in history and the largest deficit for one year. They’ve topped a trillion dollars! Way to go you fiscal hawks!
So let’s review the economics of this presidency and the Republican led Congress. Reduce the deficit – FAIL. Reduce government spending – FAIL. Increase revenue to the government through tax cuts to the wealthy – FAIL.
Meanwhile, the president, Fox News, and Republicans are attacking the people walking to this country seeking asylum and are making all sorts of easily disprovable or what common sense would tell you are false claims about this caravan of people.
When I sit back and think for a moment, I ask myself, “What would a real President do?”
A real President would not have gotten ourselves into this mess in the first place.
Which mess you ask?
Take your pick: economic, diplomatic, nuclear, … the list goes on.
A real President would have seen the crisis coming in Central America and dispatched people to find out what was going on, what the root causes were, and worked to eliminate them. The problems have been known for decades. The solutions are hard and expensive, but not as expensive as doing what we are doing.
A real President would have taxed people fairly.
A real President would not have picked fights with our allies.
A real President would not have pulled out of diplomatic and economic treaties around the world.
A real President would not have implemented tariffs leading to higher prices of manufacturing here. (Part of the beginning of the decline in the stock market was lead by Caterpillar saying the cost of steel was effecting their bottom line.)
A real President would not have cozied up to bullies and strongmen around the world.
A real President would not be using his personal iPhone that the Russians and Chinese are listening in on.
A real President would not obstruct an ongoing FBI investigation.
A real President would not take private meetings with Putin.
A real President would not divulge top secret information from our allies to our adversaries.
A real President would have diplomats and American representatives with the President on any meeting with foreign leaders.
A real President would not make up lies and have his staff run around trying to justify those lies only to have them overturned when the president said it wasn’t true, didn’t mean it, was joking, etc.
A real President would learn something about the job.
A real President would read reports he was given.
A real President would side with his people and not the adversaries.
The best hope the intelligence community has that Trump won’t give away something sensitive is that he doesn’t read what he’s given so HE DOESN’T KNOW!
That’s our defense. The president is clueless.
Great.
It can get worse.
VOTE!
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