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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Trump Arrested-MAGAts are SAD

It's been three years to the day since I last posted - April 5, 2020. Crazy. 

Looking back on my last post, for perspective: 

  • 7 months PRIOR to the 2020 election. 
    • Trump was the clearly the Republican nominee, but Biden was just one month post the late February/early March comeback that gave him Democratic nomination
  • 3 weeks into the COVID Pandemic. 
    • the US essentially shut down the 3rd week of March 2020
    • The week of March 8, 2020 there were over 12,000 deaths due to COVID in the US
    • to date there have been over 1.1mm deaths due to COVID
  • 9 months prior to the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters trying to overturn the 2020 election.
  • Today, the twice impeached, disgraced, former President Trump was arrested on 34 felony tax fraud charges related to hush money payments to a porn star and a playmate to protect his presidential campaign.

This clown is still facing investigations:
  • in Georgia for trying to overturn the results in GA 
  • a federal investigation for his role in instigating the insurrection on January 6th, 2021
  • Special prosecutor investigation into classified documents at Mar-a-lago.
    • OrangeHitler is going to prison











I actually had a Trump supporter say to me the other day (after it was announced that Trump was being indicted) "It'll be interesting to see what happens to Hunter Biden after Joe is out of office."

My response was "If Hunter is ever arrested for anything, I'll be sure not to vote for him for President."



Sunday, April 5, 2020

A message to Donald Trump Supporters--End of 2019


Voting him in once is on him. Doing it a 2nd time is on you. You know he's guilty. You know he's corrupt. You know on his best days he's barely coherent and sane. You know the damage he's doing to this nation, our security, and image in the world. It’s OK to lie to yourself, but please don’t lie to me.

For the record, I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. I didn’t vote for Hillary. They were two horrible candidates. I’m a lifelong republican. Fiscal Conservative. Socially moderate. I believe in free trade, capitalism, legal immigration, elimination of automatic and semi-automatic weapons and some level of gun reform, background checks, a woman’s right to choose, etc. However, after Trump was elected, I really hoped he would actually “President” and the GOP would get some of the fiscal elements done.

I know people hoped he’d throw the whole system out and see what happened if they disrupted political norms and elected a “guy who says it like it is.” The system is so dysfunctional, I understand that impulse. But objectively, this is where we are now: President Bigly Dumbass has never been fit for office. It appears that he is mentally unhinged and has taken the dysfunction to a level nobody could have foreseen - and if we go another 4 years, I don’t know if the republic can recover in my lifetime.

He makes shit up. He thinks he can just buy other countries. He thinks he can bribe leaders from other countries. He thinks we can nuke hurricanes. He has affairs with porn stars after his wife just gave birth to his 5th child by his 3rd.wife (I think that’s how many wives he’s had?), then pays them off for silence. He makes up phone calls with world leaders to manipulate markets (That’s a felony by the way). He takes the word of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un over his own Secretaries of Defense and National Intelligence. He allows foreign sheiks to kill American journalists and justifies it because they buy our planes.

His supporters talk around it. They play word games. “Everyone is corrupt.” “They all do it.” “We want transparency.” “We want a process.” We can debate what that means. But this shitstain is pathological. “Awww, he’s just inexperienced.” “He didn’t mean it.” You laugh off the absurdity of the President of the United States threatening to nuke a thunderstorm to send it away or get angry at a country for not selling him another country but it’s not funny. He drew a made-up cone of uncertainty for a Hurricane? Who does that?

Think about this… He was fined $2mm for stealing from a “charity” that was supposed to support Veterans, and nobody cared. Hopefully it’s because they were focusing on the $391mm of OUR money he held up that was intended to protect an ally from an enemy until that ally promised to investigate a political challenger. That is clearly a violation of the constitution (foreign involvement in a domestic election). If Obama or Clinton had done that…? We impeached Clinton for lying under oath. On a sliding scale, that is way less of a ‘crime or misdemeanor’. But go back and look at all the emails you’ve sent out trashing either/both of them. Double standard much? It’s kind of sad. But you listen to the BS that Nunes and Jordan and Meadows and Graham and Gaetz and Gohmert spew - point to that and say “Yea—what they said!”

You’re following this clown into his made-up cone of bullshit and distraction and avoiding real issues like gun violence, immigration, health care, poverty and climate change, something this dipshit doesn’t even believe exists because apparently, he knows more as a (cough) ‘realtor’ than the entire scientific community. And have I mentioned he drew a made-up cone of uncertainty on a NWS map-with a sharpie? WTF? But you hang on his every word. Most of them are lies. 

The willingness of some normally intelligent friends and family to turn away from his relentless lies and craziness and self-humiliate has become a sad feature of the Age of Trump. I watch and listen to people justify the things he says with ‘what-about-ism’ by going back 3 years to crazy conspiracy theories and go along with his ramblings to a point where I just walk away. And you’re calling others stupid?

The Republicans say they’ve been trying to impeach him since the day he was elected. Are you sure about that? I’m not a Pelosi fan but she held off on ANY movement towards impeachment until information came forward re Trump’s call with Zelensky-which by the way - took place the day AFTER Mueller testified.  Apparently, Donald felt like swinging his mushroom-dick around, and even though his call was “PERFECT,” the “transcript” he wants us all to read (which isn’t actually a transcript) was immediately put on a secret server, because enough people were freaked out about it and went to WH counsel right after because they knew there was a problem.

“But the President has authority over foreign policy!” You’re right, but the President is also accountable for how he uses that authority. And when uses it to target Americans to entrench his own power, the Constitution says Congress should act. And why would he ask a FOREIGN Government to investigate a US citizen? Sondland and Vindman and Hill and the Impeachment Inquiry have proven that’s EXACTLY what he was doing. You clowns like to use the “slippery slope” argument when it comes to the 2A, Does that apply here? What if he turned his authority on me for exercising Free speech?

I can’t believe you’d still support this clown if gun violence, health care, chronic lying, infidelity, election and tax fraud, etc were DIRECTLY impacting you or your family. When people tell me they like his policies I ask them “which ones?” Very rarely can I get an answer that is based on facts.

But I love how the “evangelicals” live in a bubble where they are a Christian on some days, but allow a liar/tax cheat/racist/ misogynist to speak for them every day, and support torturous dictators, and family separation whenever it’s good for their wallet, and simply respond by saying “…but her emails”, or “my 401k”. Trump has cheated on all 3 wives, has had porn stars for mistresses and attends church about 2x year (usually on his way back from the golf course.) But you only see what you want to see. I saw this on Twitter recently and it sums up the Trump-supporting Evangelical base perfectly: “like most evangelicals, our president believes that marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman and another woman after that and then another woman after that with paid-off porn stars and playboy playmates and other participants, both willing and unwilling, mixed in.”  What. The. Actual. F^ck?  Read this article, then look in the mirror: https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/12/good-people-dont-defend-bad-man/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=johnpavlovitz

I love it when MAGAts point to his foreign affairs work like he’s a genius.  Let’s recap the first three years:
·       He got played by Kim Jong Un.  Nothing has changed in North Korea--but they’re three years closer to Nukes and have continued missile launches.
·       He’s MANAGING Russia – despite their meddling in our elections.
·       He NEEDS Saudi Arabia - despite murdering our journalist.
·       He was going to have the Taliban… (the FREAKIN’ TALIBAN!!!) come to Camp David during the Anniversary week of 9/11. Key word: TALIBAN - But had to cancel.
·       They’ll point to the recent killing of the ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi. 
o   Great, but his abrupt withdrawal from Syria and abandonment of the Kurds put that mission at risk.
o   Here’s another question… how many times before they got Baghdadi had ElDopey ever mentioned him?... Had YOU ever heard of him before that?

Since mid-August, there have been three mass shootings in Texas. How’s that open carry, “good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun” thing working out in Texas? You’ll point to the “White Settlement Church Shooting” (of course there’s a “White Settlement Church” in Texas – insert EyeRoll) but it was an ex-FBI agent with 24 years of service who brought the shooter down. The rest of the armed congregants (think about that term “armed congregants” … WTF) were bumbling around like Barney Fife.  And in the Odessa shooting, a 17-month-old baby was shot in the face. Help me understand how gun violence fits into the Republican pro-life agenda? Does your Pro-life agenda end after departing the birth canal? I guess that only applies until birth…

We aren’t on the precipice of catastrophe or at the doorstep of doom...we are sadly past it. Our annual deficit now exceed $1Trillion dollars. This “dotard” said he’d eliminate it. And now as he’s about to be impeached he’s talking about more tax cuts when the 2018 tax cuts aren’t even close to doing what he said they would. Those cuts were supposed to find their way to the worker, but 70% of the corporate tax cuts went to stock buy backs. And if you want to bitch about “them thar foreigners” what are you going to do about those that own US equities-(They own 35% of the US stock market….?) You want to limit them too? What’ll happen to your 401k without them?

This moron still hasn’t hit 3% GDP growth in a single quarter since he got elected and there are signs of slowing headed into 2020—"The ISM report is contracting and showing continued weakness to start the year based on weak product demand and hiring. Service sector readings in December… indicates potential for slowing. The labor market is still on solid footing … which is consistent with strong labor growth. Despite apparent strength, wage growth has been elusive and soft at 2.9% year over year in December.”  Trump loves the poorly educated so they don’t pay attention to these realities.

Our debt has grown faster than under any other previous President - ever. Our kids are going to be handicapped by that. For a long time. And now he’s going to steal $3.6billion from the FEMA and defense budget, to unilaterally allocate to build an unnecessary wall that, oh yea, he said Mexico would pay for.

If any of my kids brought home a person like Trump, or Junior, or Eric, or the type of people he has surrounded himself with (Pruitt, Epstein, Kushner to name a few) or were insulted by people like this, and were still hanging out with them 2-3 years later - as a parent- I’d lock them in their rooms and throw away the key! You’d let your daughter marry them?

We need leadership at all levels of government to tackle terrorism, global economies, dictators, and environmental changes unlike any humanity has seen in the last few thousand years. But we don’t have that. We have sycophants (Rubio, Cruz, Meadows, Jordan, Gaetz) and suck ups. We have a man more interested in who likes him & who doesn’t than in anybody’s welfare currently reading this. He legislates through Hannity and Dobbs and Fox News.

I know some people out there believe they must support this manbaby because he represents the “religious and moral values” they share. Seriously? What religious values are those? Please tell me you don’t really believe that… Lying, cheating, stealing, coveting, and deceiving are not moral attributes worthy of lauding. What religious values has he ever demonstrated?  What VALUES has he ever demonstrated? Racism? Torture? Hate? Bullying? Misogyny? The spouse cheating? Anyone with an IQ over 50 isn’t laughing with you, they’re laughing AT you.

Trump is a fraud. Always has been, always will be. Can’t tell the truth if it’s standing in front of him You know it. And if you don’t know it, I’m sad for you.

Why won’t he show us his taxes? You know why. He’s a cheat. He admitted to running a ‘charity’ (for VETERANS) that was a fraud. In case you missed it, that $2mm fine I mentioned, it was THAT phony charity. In any other Presidency that’d be a huge scandal.  In the Trump administration it’s ‘Wednesday afternoon’.

This isn’t about moral leadership. If you can sleep at night telling yourself that this President is a morally righteous, mentally sound, truthful man, again, I am sad for you. I am however, happy that I can’t fool my brain into believing a single syllable of that sentence. I’d still have hair. But I’m not living with my head in the sand.

“Trump Supporter” and “Critical Thinker” are mutually exclusive. They don’t exist in the same universe. Critical thinkers see what a child should be able to see...we are all in danger as long as this demagogue is in the Oval Office. Rex Tillerson was right.  Donald Trump is a f*cking moron. A racist white nationalist, who has just stopped even using dog whistles. Now he’s just saying it out loud.

Our allies are now our enemies. Our enemies are now inside our gates making a mockery of our system while Tiny Hands and his GOP enablers (Graham, Gaetz, Cornyn, Cruz, McConnell, Rubio, Turner, Jordan, etc) cheer them on. 2020 isn’t just a normal election year. We have already failed this test once. I look at the GOP and am embarrassed to say I USED to be a Republican. I look at the clowns that have been GOP reps on these committees and wonder “how bad were the candidates who didn’t get elected?” If we fail again...there is no do-over. And it’ll be on you and your white-hooded compadres.

He has allowed the worst of Americans to feel comfortable and slither out from under their rocks, get their hoods dry-cleaned, and feel free to be the ugly Americans the rest of the world thinks we are. Maybe you’re NOT a racist, but you elected one. It was clear when he came down the elevator, he barely tried to hide it during the campaign and it’s even more clear now.

What has happened in the last 3+ years is embarrassing.  And what he has exposed in some people is sad. Family, friends, co-workers, colleagues. I KNOW that in a country of 320mm people we can do better. Better than Trump. Better than Hillary. Better than the 35% of MAGAts digging in and excusing his stupidity and dishonest behavior.

If you’ve read this far, I’ll sum this up for you: This is a maggot, who couldn’t make money with CASINOS, sold out our democracy for foreign property, used a fake college to defraud students, ripped off a VETERANS charity, and paid off a porn star— but you’re not quite convinced he’d hold up aid for Ukraine over information on a credible, ethical political opponent to help him win an election?

Got it….