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Thursday, November 22, 2018

So Confused


11 people get sick from eating Romaine lettuce.  All Romaine lettuce recalled.  Over 300 mass shootings in the US killing over 1,000 people and everybody keeps their guns, semi-automatic military grade weapons are still available, and we cannot make gun registration more stringent.

Trump has chanted “lock her up” regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business when it was not illegal to do so.  Now it is illegal and Trump says Ivanka Trump is not guilty of any wrong doing.

Trump criticizes the Navy Seals who took out Osama Bin Laden and allows the Saudis to kill an American citizen without consequence.  Trump assaults the intelligence and military community again.

Trump defends no consequence for Saudis due to the murder of an American citizen because we would lose millions in business deals.  Human life versus money? 

Trump blames the courts for not supporting his policies even though there is no evidence he understands the role of an independent judiciary and totally misses the point of the rulings. 

Trump blames California wildfires on poor management of forests and suggests if California raked leaves liked Finland does we would not have this problem.  Trump cut millions from the federal budget to fight wildfires.  Finland does not rake leaves.  Finland chants, “Make America Rake Again.”  What burned was not a forest but brush.  Who is listening to this man?

Trump removes the press credentials of a reporter who was pushing him to answer questions.  Court won’t allow it.  Once again Trump does not understand the role of the free press in a democracy.

All we heard for weeks leading up to the midterm elections was scary descriptions of the people in the caravan heading to the US from Central America.  There was never any proof of any of these claims.  Trump moves troops to the border to protect us from the caravan.  The Blue Wave hits on November 6 and all discussion of the caravan disappears, except the soldiers are still in place on our border and they are missing Thanksgiving with their families.  Unbelievable.

Trump refuses to honor the fallen from World War I because it might mess up his hair.

Trump claims he is a Nationalist, a belief system that lead to World War I and World War II.  This belief system springs from the white supremacy movement and is incredibly dangerous to our country.

50 of the nation's top political scientists state Trump is the worst President in American history.

Trauma surgeons in the ER attack the NRA stand that doctors should not comment on gun shootings.

And all of this occurred in the past two weeks.

It appears 30% of the American public continues to support a man who lacks knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of American government, of international trade, of the military, the intelligence community, of fiscal policy, of monetary policy, of freedom of the press, of the role of the judiciary, of the notion of core values driving decision-making, and most importantly the notion that no man or woman is above the law.

How can we remove the blinders from the remaining 30%?  What will it take?  Scares me to imagine because I fear those supporters will never abandon the despotic fool in our White House.  Our allies are meeting without us, drafting policy and alignments without us.  Our President cannot get an invite to internationally important weddings and funerals.  We have become the laughing stock of the world.  If God chose Trump he did so to demean, demoralize and destroy the great democratic experiment we call the United States.

I am so confused.  Are Trump supporters anti-American?