I thought I wanted a conversation about how the other side of the magnet was feeling about the cabinet choices and news before the inauguration.
She said " They get two years. They screw it up it starts heading in the other pendulum direction. Only two years to go." (I'm fading out due to the fact what has already been said is already tooo much, but so far, she was not fazed)
I said "A lot of people can get hurt in 2 years, and more than 1 republic has been dismantled in less time than that, this is not politics as usual"
She said "lots of screw ups led to this. We will be stronger when we get through it. Learning curve is huge right now. This is what happens when the politicians don't stay in the middle. Extreme shifts are hated by both sides and create huge swings."
I said "we'll see"
I wanted to say" what screw ups? What learning curve are you talking about? Are you talking about Obama? He was so moderate it annoyed me at times." And I really wanted to say "Is trump not extreme? Is he in the middle? Are you really sitting there feeling like he is going to fix your world? Make everything better?"
But I said "we'll see". And hopefully, we will still all be fine in 2 years. If he turns into a great President, I'll eat my every fear-ridden, hateful, disgusted thought.
If not, I'm going to rub this in her face like a evil little 14 year old with a new social media account.
So, in support of not everyone being crazy, we have much protesting going on, protesting hate groups, protesting trump, protesting immigration policies, protesting our backing out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Protesting our getting out of the Iran Nuclear agreement, protesting Tariffs and getting out of NAFTA and Protesting our separating children from their parents at the border, There are groups protesting just about everything.
By November of 2017, the ACLU had filed over 100 lawsuits related to civil rights violations by his administration.
By August of 2017 his administration had been sued 139 times over immigration, loosening environmental protections, trying to return protected land to the use of corporations, etc, etc.
We've had violent deaths in protests at Georgia Tech and Charlottesville.
We've had bombs in the mail sent to Trumps enemies.
We've had shootings at churches due to racial and religious hatred.
We've had a constant diatribe against immigrants and if he has his way, I smell an ACLU moment coming, he is going to take away the citizenship of those children born here of noncitizen parents--no more anchor babies. I can't help but wonder how many of our families started out here just like that. Will it be retroactive? Will Don Trump Jr and Ivanka lose their citizenship?
We've had our Allies question our future as a free nation.
We've had the most authoritarian leaders of the least democratic countries in the world held up to us as great men by our own president.
We've had to deal with a steady stream of lying recorded on every kind of media there is, with the entire White House staff pretending its not happening and with the Majority of the GOP pretending that "its just the way he communicates".
Fact checkers Analysis: Trump made 6,420 false or misleading claims over 649 days.
LYING IS NOT COMMUNICATING. IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF COMMUNICATING.
Republicans that are moderate, that are honest, that are not loyal to Trump are actively campaigned against by someone that the President gives his seal of approval.
All democrats are demonized.
And through it all, all the Cabinet turn-over, the White House Staff drama, the live coverage of Trump rallies when he is no longer campaigning, the Court decrying the unconstitutionality of his presidential decrees--through it all, the endlessly childish, mocking, lying tweets.
There is an ever growing list of people Trump has fired, requested to resign, removed security clearance and it appears that the one thing that is too much for this president is---DISLOYALTY!
When you are doing what is right---you don't need loyalty, people respond well to honesty, righteousness, and highly ethical behavior. If you do what is right, people will follow.
Despots and Dictators and Supreme Leaders need loyalty.
When did this become the president's little fiefdom. When did everyone start having to agree with the president, lie for the president, cover for the president.
The president is the top job in this country. But make no mistake, it's a job, and that job description requires not only following the laws of the land but also putting the country first.
Instead we have a narcissist that thinks that he is so important that if he were not president, everyone would just dry up and blow away.
While he has helped those rich donors that helped him get where he is--and that "tax Cut" ONLY actually helped the very rich, he has not helped the average people-90% of the population of this country. He did promise the middle class a 10% tax cut before the midterms, but it was while congress was not in session and there was nothing in writing.
Unemployment is at a 49 year low, but the new jobs are temporary, part-time, minimum wage.
The focus on stopping people from entering from south of us has created a shortage of construction workers in several cities and farmers are worried about getting their fruits and vegetables in next harvest..
The percentage of people that can not qualify to buy a home has gone up,
Canada, England, and Europe thinks we might be losing our minds or at least our democracy. They are definitely not considering us the place to turn for an ally, so that means we can not count on their help if we actually need it.
As for the president, if he gets more than one bite of the apple, I'll be shocked, not because people should be smart enough not to do that twice. But because, I'm sure he has refilled his personal coffers multiple times these last 2 years and still has two years to go so then--back to business as usual. Yes, he has billions, but he is not the richest man on the planet, and I'm sure that feels like losing to him.
The Trump Hotels and resorts are all the rage with corporate leaders, diplomats and visiting dignitaries seeking favor with this president.
His whole family is benefiting from his presidential connections.
But.
But,but,but.
Some of us are trying very hard to keep sight of reality. This surreal new world is hard to watch.
Hate, bigotry, prejudice, greed, business above kindness, none of that can ever fit with my view of this country as a decent nation. I know of many people that are having a hard time with the crazy tweets, the USA as bad guy, fearmongering---against immigrants, against poor people, against LGBTQ, against muslims. Hearing a person that called white supremists "good people" and now calls himself a "nationalist" is not reassuring to those of us whose families are not white, and not rich. Our friends and coworkers that are immigrants are scared sh--less.
It has not been business as usual.
Trump is all the news is about.
No one can rein in his crazy.
The idea that this country might not have a tricentennial celebration had never seemed possible. That it might become, not a democracy, not a republic, but rather a oligarchy or plutocracy seemed the stuff of nightmares not reality.
The idea that I might live long enough to see the life expectancy go down, the infant mortality go up, the poverty go up, the inability to get a decent public education go up is no longer a distant fear, its a reality now.
And climate change is happening, and we have placed the economy over ecology. We are going to pander to the rich instead of finding a way to NOT destroy the habitability of the planet for our great-grandchildren.
We need leaders that are not all about themselves and their accumulations of wealth and power.
We need voting citizens that can think about a better future instead of just wanting to go back to how it was for them, White them, working them, not having to interact with or compete with people of color--them, back before most of them were even born.
I knew it was never perfect in this country, that there was a lot of work to do, but had no idea how many of the people around me were actually hating and fearing their neighbors and hating having to compete not just with people that look like them but also people that don't.
“The President’s party routinely loses House seats in the midterms. That has been the case in all but three midterm elections since 1900. They lost them this time also. But they gained in the Senate.
And the day after the election, The US Attorney General was fired, otherwise known as forced to resign due to his having recused himself from the Russia/election tampering thing, which was the legally appropriate thing to do.
The president is calling journalist's childish names, refusing to say anything bad about Saudi Arabia because they are buying our guns and tweeting.
Twelve people were shot in a country music event in California.
Back to the new, improved USA.
I'm pretty disgusted.
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2018
The changing CABINET:
White House Staff drama:
American Civil Liberty Union Sues Trump Administration over 110 times in 2 years:
Lies caught on tape:
Tweets
Indictments
list of trips in 2018
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