The Political World
According to Bill
(A rant about former
President Trump written just after the 1st impeachment was announced)
Anyone who watches the national news regularly surely must
have come to the same conclusions as I have, and, by all accounts, most of our
foreign counterparts have; those who see the effects of our political
machinations on a global scale and are impartial observers of American
politics. Their common refrain is ‘Americans seem to have lost their minds.’
The reason for this view is that our nation now regularly does
things that are counter-productive for ourselves and for the rest of the world.
On the aggregate, it is safe to say that only the deranged can do something
that harms both themselves and others and then brag about it. This is the work
of a self-described ‘stable genius’ according to one high ranking leader, one
who seemed deranged even as he announced his intellectual capability to an
unbelieving world.
Foreigners imply that we began losing our national competency
in 2016 when the Republican Party decided to allow a neophyte to join the ranks
of a dozen or more political wanna-be’s who sought the Presidency of the United
States; they allowed a man who was completely unfit for any political
office, one who had no qualifications even to serve as dogcatcher, to become a
candidate for the highest office in the land. His candidacy was a joke as he relied
on juvenile name-calling to denigrate his competitors. He appealed to only the
lowest ranks of the Party, promising no new ideas beyond a disjointed effort to
dismantle the accomplishments of his predecessor. His campaign was based on
hate, lies and sentences with only small words uttered loudly with feigned
indignation. It was both sad and shameful to watch red-hatted supporters
completely succumb to his brand of skullduggery.
His Democratic competitor, a woman, won the hearts of the
electorate by a popular vote majority of several million votes. Yet the
Republican candidate limped into the Presidency courtesy of the outdated
electoral college that no one understands, a bag of dirty tricks (including the
illegal help of Russia), suppression of votes, Republican Gerrymandering, and a
dearth of uninformed voters who must have been fans of the reality TV show that
featured an unskilled actor who adopted a make-up ritual of orange face paint
and a yellow comb over pasted to a shiny skull.
Number 45 began his Administration by hiring crooks to
become the leaders of the massive bureaucracy in the US government. When the
dust settled, the government had become a look-alike assemblage of old white
men with beautiful secretaries who echoed only those things they believed that
the Trumpeter wanted to hear. His special brand of incompetence came into clear
focus quickly as he named one after another Secretaries of State, all of whom
whispered about his stupidity.
POTUS quickly aroused tensions around the world by insulting
our most cherished allies and then after promising a nuclear war, suddenly
changed course to treat despots like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un as old
friends or, in the case of Kim, as new lovers. Other missteps by Comrade Trump
were more serious. On a whim, our leader of the free world suddenly decided to
abandon our allies by removing our troops from a field of conflict, giving up
our bases to the Russians and leaving allies open to a massacre, that in fact
occurred.
While he was stumbling in Europe and the Middle East, he
secretly longed to spread his ideology across the American continent and follow
up on an idiotic promise that had been made, that of building a wall at our
southern border that would rival the Great Wall of China. When it became
painfully obvious that such an idea was an absurdity, he reverted to a 2nd
goal: that of preventing emigration at the Mexican-US border. For this, he
hired an especial set of officers, those who were totally lacking in humanity
and had no sensitivity to human suffering and grief. These were men and women
who were capable of stealing children from their parents to discourage
emigration. The stolen children were first jailed, then hidden, then lost track
of, before public pressure demanded that it be stopped. It was announced that
that policy has ended, but recent revelations indicate that it has not; that
children are continuing to be kidnapped by US border officials in the ongoing racist
effort that is a secret government program.
And now we have Corona Virus, the most potent killer the
world has ever imagined with Mr. Unqualified to lead us from our misery. We
were doomed from the outset as our Bunker Boy removed the federal office that
had been developed specifically to deal with pandemics. And then the worst
happened; # 45 decided that the battle against the corona virus provided him
with a wonderful opportunity to showcase his skills as a war time leader. He
decided to personally lead the US effort against the dreaded disease. One of
his first objectives was to secretly invalidate Obama Care by having his
lawyers prove to the Supreme Court that helping ordinary Americans with their
health care was bad governing. When that didn’t work, he initiated Plan B;
attacking the world’s infectious disease specialists and ending our support and
association with the World Health Organization. How’s that for helping combat
the pandemic?
The results of having Mr. Know-It-All leading efforts to
combat the Corona Virus were predictable – the United States now has the worst
record in the world in battling the virus as we have more dead, more sickness
and more suffering than any other nation. No one disputes these facts yet Mr.
Big Lie reports that we are the envy of the world in dealing with the virus. Sadly,
there are some who continue to believe his lies even as they see the suffering
of their fellow citizens on the nightly news.
I suspect that knowledgeable foreigners who repeat the
notion of Americans losing their minds do so with the knowledge that we have
had at least two opportunities to remove the cancer at the top of our
bureaucracy. The first was when his cabinet officers began to understand his incompetence
and whispered to one another about implementing the rules of the 25th
amendment to remove an unfit President. I understand they included Vice
President Pence in their number, and he agreed to the take-over of the top job
if there was unanimous support for the idea. The group wanted iron-clad
evidence and a plot was hatched for the 2nd in command at the Dept.
of Justice to wear a wire at a meeting to obtain the evidence wanted. Somehow
the plot was divulged to a news reporter before the plotters were ready and the
first opportunity to eliminate the orange-faced mobster was lost.
The second opportunity followed the impeachment of the
President and the resultant trial in the Senate where we learned that we had
elected the only Republican politicians in the world who were born without
backbones. These poor souls meekly followed the demands of the Republican party
leader and voted not guilty at a trial that was held without witnesses, thus
depriving our long-suffering citizenry of the chance to make a change at the
top.
The remedy to all this madness is the one thing that we can
do and have done over the 200 plus years of our experiment in democracy: Throw
the bums out at the next election. Only this time we have an additional special
concern, what if he decides not to go as he has hinted several times? I hope
that someone in government has a plan for that eventuality and has the
handcuffs ready to lead him toward the nearest jail for his numerous attempts
at robbing the American people and damaging the world order. It is the least we
can do to show that our nation can rouse itself in returning to sanity.
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