Roughly seven years before I was born, Richard Nixon resigned as a result of the Watergate probe. Whether or not that will occur again, if this POTUS will suffer a similar fate, remains to be seen.
There has been more turnover in this administration's FIRST YEAR than in any previous presidency. There have been resignations, there have been firings.
It is truly a base thing to fire someone TWO DAYS BEFORE they'd be entitled to full retirement, and then BRAG about it and try to flip it into something GOOD, and yourself into a hero. Nope, sorry, fail. That makes you an asshole, even if your previous actions had not already put you square into that territory.
Are you fucking kidding me? Like for real? It isn't a thing to BRAG about, that you "fired" a man who HONORABLY served his country as a law enforcement officer. And that the reasons for your doing so were HIGHLY political and smacked of impropriety. First Comey, now his second in command. And for reasons that smack of the same stink of Watergate.
I asked both parental units about any similarities to that national scandal. Mom didn't have a lot to say-- she was in her 20's at the time, a few years before she met my Dad. I know at 23 years old, I was pretty apathetic politically. I DID come of age just prior to the 2000 election, yet another where the will of the people and the electoral college (here's looking at you, Florida, and those @#$% hanging chads) deciding the election (no comment, except to say "and they wonder why the young are apathetic politically!). Dad has more to say, needless to say. And it's very informed, though he was rather tired after his train trip up to and back from Seattle to see my sister. Dragging two words out of him was more difficult than normal, ha ha. I have three decade long friends who claim they've never heard him say more than three words (which is probably a slight exaggeration, but whatevs).
I was a registered Democrat in Tulsa, OK. I tend to gravitate towards more liberal causes, but I am admittedly conservative in one area-- crime and punishment (as well as things related to both). I also did NOT vote for marijuana legalization in two states-- Washington and California. The latter because the wording of the proposition was a little too vague on how it would be implemented (which, in the state of California, is ASKING for chaos), and the former because it was (almost) too restrictive. Both ballot measures passed, and the West Coast is now the "green coast." Rolled eyes. You now have to wonder whether that skunky odor downwind from the pot shop is weed or an actual skunk. IT COULD BE EITHER.
Anywho, in Tulsa the local Democratic headquarters was in a small converted house off of 31st, in comparison to the RNC's rather lavish and large HQ in the city. No comment, except to say it's reflective of the political climate in Oklahoma. Outside of the "college towns", Norman (GO SOONERS!) and Stillwater (GO COWBOYS... your basketball team, at least, IS better than OU's! And @#$% Kansas, BTW), Oklahoma is a VERY red state. And even Norman and Stillwater are a deep reddish shade of "purple", a blending of conservative and liberal. I remember leaving DNC HQ in Tulsa after a day of phone banking for candidates in the fall of 2000... and immediately getting a flat tire. Still not convinced the RNC didn't put nails in the driveway, LOL.
My Dad, however, said there's a BIG difference between Nixon andHe Who Shall Not Be Named Trump. Namely, Nixon was "smart." Trump is an "arrogant prick" who "thinks he's smarter than everyone else but really isn't". The things Trump are doing are "just this side of the 'traitor line' and probably crossed it". And at the end, Trump really IS a crook, who has cheated his way through his business life, his personal life, and that how can we expect his political life would be any different?
So yeah... we have a man in the White House, who controls the "nuclear football" that can't even control his Tweets at 6 am to sound less like an impetuous toddler. The White House day care team has lost control of their "problem child" again.
May God help us all. We could get nuked at any moment because our POTUS pissed off the wrong asshole on Twitter and didn't use his words like an adult should. The fact that he uses childish nicknames for political opponents, even doubling down on it, tells me all I need to know. He uses people, then throws them away when they're no longer of any use to him.
But the tide is changing. A Democrat, Conor Lamb, just won a congressional race in a district (Pennsylvania's 18th) that Trump won by TWENTY POINTS. The "winner in chief" is now at least 0-3. Instead of being the rallying force that MOST Presidents have been (e.g., Clinton, Bush, Obama), Trump is the antithesis of that. Instead of HELPING a candidate, he actually seems to HARM their chances of taking office.
Yet to his ilk, he's a "winner". The absolute BEST we've had in the Oval Office. And so much better than that "last guy" in the presidency, Obama is a TRUE traitor, Obama wasn't even born in the United States, Hillary is a crook, deserves prison, was responsible solely for what happened in Benghazi to Ambassador Stephens, and all the other Trumpian bullshit. There's too much that spews forth from that man's mouth and pen to even address adequately.
Don't even get me started on his "Muslim immigration ban." That isn't what this country was founded on. The famous poem doesn't have an asterisk, "give us your tired, huddled masses*" *except if they're Muslim. He can call it what he wants, but it's religious discrimination, it's criminal discrimination, but it's also par for the course in Trumpland. And then to say crap about, "why can't we get some NORWEGIANS here instead of people from 'shithole countries'"-- um. I can't even begin to say all of the wrong in that. At the least, it's veiled racism. It's implying "white is right, and if it ain't white, it ain't right."
To put Libya on that list, but leave off other countries (coincidentally, ALL OF WHICH Trump has business interests in), well, what the FUCK already. Ever think that there might be people IN the "undesirable" countries who DO NOT agree with the terrorist elements in the country, whose lives may be in danger because of their not agreeing with them? Yeah, let's sacrifice them to the wolves. Let's let them suffer, even die, because of the sins of some. Guilt by association doesn't work. Sorry. Can't make it work. Besides, what happened to the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
The United States DIRECTLY contributed to the quagmire situation IN Libya, so to ignore and turn our back on Libya NOW seems, well, just wrong based on our status quo. If Iraq and Afghanistan are "worth saving", then why not Libya, which is MUCH smaller, population wise (less people in the WHOLE COUNTRY than in the state I reside) not "worth it." Sorry, that's horse shit however you look at it.
Um. Yeah, whatever. I often stand in AWE at the ignorance spewed by "news outlets" like Fox News and InfoWars. Mainly that what they say is going to be believed as gospel truth by an alarmingly large part of the population.
Again, MAY GOD HELP US ALL. All we can do is pray.
And here, well, is this song. The 80's and 90's had some of the best music, hands down.
There has been more turnover in this administration's FIRST YEAR than in any previous presidency. There have been resignations, there have been firings.
It is truly a base thing to fire someone TWO DAYS BEFORE they'd be entitled to full retirement, and then BRAG about it and try to flip it into something GOOD, and yourself into a hero. Nope, sorry, fail. That makes you an asshole, even if your previous actions had not already put you square into that territory.
Are you fucking kidding me? Like for real? It isn't a thing to BRAG about, that you "fired" a man who HONORABLY served his country as a law enforcement officer. And that the reasons for your doing so were HIGHLY political and smacked of impropriety. First Comey, now his second in command. And for reasons that smack of the same stink of Watergate.
I asked both parental units about any similarities to that national scandal. Mom didn't have a lot to say-- she was in her 20's at the time, a few years before she met my Dad. I know at 23 years old, I was pretty apathetic politically. I DID come of age just prior to the 2000 election, yet another where the will of the people and the electoral college (here's looking at you, Florida, and those @#$% hanging chads) deciding the election (no comment, except to say "and they wonder why the young are apathetic politically!). Dad has more to say, needless to say. And it's very informed, though he was rather tired after his train trip up to and back from Seattle to see my sister. Dragging two words out of him was more difficult than normal, ha ha. I have three decade long friends who claim they've never heard him say more than three words (which is probably a slight exaggeration, but whatevs).
I was a registered Democrat in Tulsa, OK. I tend to gravitate towards more liberal causes, but I am admittedly conservative in one area-- crime and punishment (as well as things related to both). I also did NOT vote for marijuana legalization in two states-- Washington and California. The latter because the wording of the proposition was a little too vague on how it would be implemented (which, in the state of California, is ASKING for chaos), and the former because it was (almost) too restrictive. Both ballot measures passed, and the West Coast is now the "green coast." Rolled eyes. You now have to wonder whether that skunky odor downwind from the pot shop is weed or an actual skunk. IT COULD BE EITHER.
Anywho, in Tulsa the local Democratic headquarters was in a small converted house off of 31st, in comparison to the RNC's rather lavish and large HQ in the city. No comment, except to say it's reflective of the political climate in Oklahoma. Outside of the "college towns", Norman (GO SOONERS!) and Stillwater (GO COWBOYS... your basketball team, at least, IS better than OU's! And @#$% Kansas, BTW), Oklahoma is a VERY red state. And even Norman and Stillwater are a deep reddish shade of "purple", a blending of conservative and liberal. I remember leaving DNC HQ in Tulsa after a day of phone banking for candidates in the fall of 2000... and immediately getting a flat tire. Still not convinced the RNC didn't put nails in the driveway, LOL.
My Dad, however, said there's a BIG difference between Nixon and
So yeah... we have a man in the White House, who controls the "nuclear football" that can't even control his Tweets at 6 am to sound less like an impetuous toddler. The White House day care team has lost control of their "problem child" again.
May God help us all. We could get nuked at any moment because our POTUS pissed off the wrong asshole on Twitter and didn't use his words like an adult should. The fact that he uses childish nicknames for political opponents, even doubling down on it, tells me all I need to know. He uses people, then throws them away when they're no longer of any use to him.
But the tide is changing. A Democrat, Conor Lamb, just won a congressional race in a district (Pennsylvania's 18th) that Trump won by TWENTY POINTS. The "winner in chief" is now at least 0-3. Instead of being the rallying force that MOST Presidents have been (e.g., Clinton, Bush, Obama), Trump is the antithesis of that. Instead of HELPING a candidate, he actually seems to HARM their chances of taking office.
Yet to his ilk, he's a "winner". The absolute BEST we've had in the Oval Office. And so much better than that "last guy" in the presidency, Obama is a TRUE traitor, Obama wasn't even born in the United States, Hillary is a crook, deserves prison, was responsible solely for what happened in Benghazi to Ambassador Stephens, and all the other Trumpian bullshit. There's too much that spews forth from that man's mouth and pen to even address adequately.
Don't even get me started on his "Muslim immigration ban." That isn't what this country was founded on. The famous poem doesn't have an asterisk, "give us your tired, huddled masses*" *except if they're Muslim. He can call it what he wants, but it's religious discrimination, it's criminal discrimination, but it's also par for the course in Trumpland. And then to say crap about, "why can't we get some NORWEGIANS here instead of people from 'shithole countries'"-- um. I can't even begin to say all of the wrong in that. At the least, it's veiled racism. It's implying "white is right, and if it ain't white, it ain't right."
To put Libya on that list, but leave off other countries (coincidentally, ALL OF WHICH Trump has business interests in), well, what the FUCK already. Ever think that there might be people IN the "undesirable" countries who DO NOT agree with the terrorist elements in the country, whose lives may be in danger because of their not agreeing with them? Yeah, let's sacrifice them to the wolves. Let's let them suffer, even die, because of the sins of some. Guilt by association doesn't work. Sorry. Can't make it work. Besides, what happened to the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
The United States DIRECTLY contributed to the quagmire situation IN Libya, so to ignore and turn our back on Libya NOW seems, well, just wrong based on our status quo. If Iraq and Afghanistan are "worth saving", then why not Libya, which is MUCH smaller, population wise (less people in the WHOLE COUNTRY than in the state I reside) not "worth it." Sorry, that's horse shit however you look at it.
Um. Yeah, whatever. I often stand in AWE at the ignorance spewed by "news outlets" like Fox News and InfoWars. Mainly that what they say is going to be believed as gospel truth by an alarmingly large part of the population.
Again, MAY GOD HELP US ALL. All we can do is pray.
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