Are you kidding me???
Admittedly, I was disappointed that Kamala Harris didn’t win the presidential election in November. She had a long climb to make in just over 3 months’ time. And while she did a terrific job across the country about letting people know what she stood for and what her presidency would be about, a large percentage of the voting public was not moved to go and vote for her. Many said they “just didn’t know her” and that stopped them. (Heaven forbid they should do their own research and read her website which was very clear about all of this.)
The result was that a lot of potential voters stayed home,
thus electing the 45th POTUS as the 47th POTUS – the second
time in our history that a President served non-consecutive terms. As of 2 days
ago, Donald J. Trump was the President of the United States.
His first administration was something of a disaster and
ranked by many presidential scholars as the worst in history. (Having watched
them live for the last 60+ years, that’s saying something!) In any case, he
promised while campaigning that he would be a great unifier and would get
America out of it’s “perilous decline of the disastrous past 4 years.”
It’s important to note that the past 4 years have seen the
largest growth in our economy in history, the lowest unemployment rate of the
past 50 years, more new businesses started than in the past 50 years, more jobs
created than the past 50 years, and a constant reduction in the crime rate
during the last 4 years, too. Was there inflation? Yep and while it was painful for many Americans, it was also the lowest of any of the major countries of the world; in other words, it was handled effectively, more so than anywhere else in the world. (If you’re looking at that last paragraph, and
wondering where the decline is, your confusion is based in logic and reality. If
you disagree with any of it, feel free to do your own research. Each of those
statements is a fact.)
Shortly after being sworn in on January 20th,
2025, which was also MLK Day for the ultimate irony, Trump signed a huge pile
of Executive Orders. Some were pure fantasy (removing the citizenry birthright?
It’s in the Constitution, dude) and others were just mean (There are only 2
genders, according to the new POTUS, flying in the face of science, of course.)
and one was downright sinister. That’s the one that really pisses me off.
With the sweeping of Sharpie, TFG has pardoned or commuted
the sentence of every one of the January 6th insurrectionists; 1506
of them to be exact. Calling them patriots or proud Americans, he has basically
said that what they did on that fateful day was just fine!
While he had said he was going to do it while campaigning, I
am astonished at this outrageous act. There isn’t a single second of video that
shows that group as being anything other than riotous, treasonous, racist,
anti-American, anti-Democracy assholes. Their actions that day caused deaths,
disabilities, and shook the very pillars of our country. By taking this action,
TFG has made it clear that the only Americans he will honor and protect are the
ones that are totally loyal to him. If this doesn’t frighten you, you are
either not paying attention or are too MAGAfied to understand the
ramifications.
The GOP has long described itself as the party of law and
order. I have yet to hear a single member of the party stand up and say, “This
is wrong!”
Jesus Christ, people he’s just said that police don’t have
to uphold the law and people who break it in his name are welcome to do so!
Despite my not voting for him, I had decided that I would
support our new President as long as what he was doing was good for all
Americans. Based on these actions on the first day in office, he’s lost any
support from me for anything he does in record time.
No one will ever convince me that he is anything but an
ignorant, racist, narcissistic, bully. The only way to deal with a bully, in my
experience, is to punch them in the nose as many times as it takes for them to
get the message.
I hope it isn’t too late to save America.
