A White House Most Foul
By D. S. Mitchell
As you most know, I started the Calamity Politics political blog to vent my frustrations and keep from losing my frigging liberal mind. I try to focus on news and facts and also try to support my statements with at least two sources. With this post, I’ve thrown all those established behaviors to the wind.
1.) Images of the newly emboldened and empowered ICE agents, handcuffing and loading people into vans, without access to legal representation, reminds me of the Nazi’s rounding up the Jews seventy five years ago in Germany. Obviously, hate lives on.
2.) I had a husband once. He believed, “if you repeat a lie, enough times, most people believe it.” I am more of the, “You can fool all the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people, part of the time, but you can never fool all the people, all of the time.” I believe we are about to find out which theory holds water. I’ve got my fingers crossed. There’s a lot at stake here, 240 years of our constitutional democracy.
3.) There is a stench rising out of Washington, D.C. that is so foul it has reached me here on the West Coast. I have never smelled anything so disgusting, except the odor that hovers over a rendering plant in mid-August. The possibility that a presidential candidate would co-operate with a foreign power, one that our country has sanctions against, is truly sickening. That despicable cloud of corruption now hangs over the entire United States, extending from coast to coast. Republican investigating chairmen (Nunes and Burr), admitted yesterday, that they had, at White House urging, attempted to divert media attention from the Russian investigation.
Right here, right now, I want the world to know, that I personally believe the appointment of an Independent Prosecutor is essential.
4.) The unrelenting attacks and insults against the media, by President Trump, are inexcusable and dangerous. A little contention is good, but what is going on is unprecedented. Since when does the top liar in the country have the right to accuse anyone of being “fake.” The fabricated accusations by Trump are disgusting and unnecessary. Trump’s assault against the fourth estate must stop. I’m not a great fan of George W, but let me tell you, I was so damned glad to hear him discuss this issue on the Today show yesterday, you would have thought he was a Democrat. I was nearly cheering. Fuck, yeah! “The press in an indispensable part of our democracy”. Go George, go. Thank you, 43.** As an aside, Mr. Bush, I had no idea you were such a talented artist. The several paintings I’ve seen recently are amazing. Beautiful work.
5.) “Who knew, health care was so complicated?” President Trump expressed Monday, February 27, 2017. OMG. Well, at least now, he admits, not everything can be solved with a tweet. We are number 42 on the world health care service effectiveness list. That’s a pathetic placement. “42”? That means 41 other countries in the world are doing it better than we are. Seriously, 41 other countries provide both better and cheaper health care for their citizens than we do here in the United States. Has anyone thought to go to the number 1 country, or number 2 country; and see how they do it? Boy, that’s where I’d start, if I really wanted the best for the American people. Let’s find out how to do it right. We can still learn.
6.) In 1973, Richard Nixon declared, “there can be no whitewash at the White House.”
After, protests and investigations, Nixon finally resigned, before impeachment. I wonder if President Trump will resign, or whether he will order military defense of his position. Don’t laugh. Just because it hasn’t happened, doesn’t mean it can’t, or won’t. Thank you Founding Fathers, for the Second Amendment.
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Dar
