Day 789.
Yesterday was one to remember. During the last 24 hours or so, we have seen just how much our dear leader loves autocratic governments and hates our democracy. He let it be known exactly what he wishes our country to look like.
In one example, it was discovered that Ivanka Trump used private email for government business. You know, the same type of thing that trump claims Hillary Clinton should be “locked up” over. Now in honesty, I am not overly concerned about private emails as long as there is no classified material knowingly included in it.
But, just like the Clinton case, if anyone from the Intelligence agencies looks at the emails after the fact and determines that there was actually classified material included in Ivanka’s emails, then what will daddy say?
Ivanka claims she “didn’t know the rules” about private email use. Wasn’t she listening to her daddy all through the campaign? Didn’t she think that the big fuss over Clinton’s emails just might mean something? Or, is she trying to use the tired excuse of being a bubble headed blonde to excuse her poor behavior. I don’t believe in the bubble headed blonde theory, so I believe she simply ignored the rules because like her daddy she doesn’t think they apply to her.
Furthermore, once trump took office, it was reported that several members of his staff used private emails for government business. Those included people like Ivanka, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and even Reince Priebus. Rules and laws apparently just don’t have anything to do with their behavior.
The odd thing is later in the day the New York Times reported that dear daddy tried to get the DOJ to “prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey”. His then White House Attorney told him he couldn’t order such a prosecution. If he now goes ahead with that decision, is he going to include his own daughter for doing the same thing? Yeah, and they are throwing snowballs in hell right now.
We were also told that he is about to order the troops on the southern border to use “force” to protect the border patrol agents there. Just exactly what that means isn’t clear. If someone throws a rock are the troops supposed to shoot the rock thrower? As usual, there are no boundaries being set, just more bluster from a very stupid man.
How will trump explain a blood bath if our troops open fire on migrants? Is that what he wants? If you look at recent pictures from the border, that “beautiful barbed wire” as he called it makes our southern border look more of a prison than a national border. I am really beginning to believe that it isn’t there to keep anyone out, but rather to keep us in.
Then we have the most outrageous thing yet. Our dear leader has sold America’s ideals and morality to the highest bidder. The CIA handed in a report that categorically states that they believe with “high certainty” that the Crown Price of Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of Khashoggi in their embassy in Turkey.
But, in typical trump fashion, he rejected those findings and did virtually nothing to punish Saudi Arabia for this horrendous crime. Our dear leader just told the world that if you are willing to do any business with America, you can kill with impunity. People do not matter, only money.
But, he couldn’t let it stay there. No, he had to use Saudi Arabia’s propaganda to “justify” the killing. He said that the Crown Prince considered Khashoggi an “enemy”. Therefore, it was perfectly fine for him to be killed and butchered.
The man was a legal resident of this country. He has children who are U.S. Citizens. He worked for the Washington Post. His crime that made him such an “enemy” of the Crown Prince was his articles condemning Saudi Arabia’s horrific human rights abuses.
It goes even further than that. By his actions yesterday, our dear leader declared open season against any journalist in the world who says anything nasty about an autocratic dictator. And when you also consider the simple fact that our dear leader calls our free press “the enemy of the people” one has to wonder if any of our journalists are in danger from our own government. If I were Jim Acosta, I would stay out of any U.S. Embassy anywhere in the world.
Unfortunately, this is what our country has become. We have become abettors for dictators around the world to kill off anyone they consider an “enemy”. In Russia, Putin has journalists killed very often. He even orders the murder of his political opponent just a block from the Kremlin. And, he orders the murder of a defector in England using chemical weapons that also affected some English citizens. And, our dear leader does nothing.
The dictator in North Korea kills off his own family members who he considers a threat to his power. He butchered his uncle by having him blasted into oblivion using anti-aircraft guns. He ordered the killing of his half-brother in another country. And our dear leader not only did nothing, he met with the clown and gave him a world stage to pretend he is something big. And, our dear leader says he “loves” the murderer.
Just to make sure that we all know exactly where our dear leader stands, he got up this morning and “thanked” the Saudis for lower gas prices. You can kill a legal resident of America who works for an American company. Then you can butcher his body to easily remove it from your embassy, and our dear leader only cares about thanking them for lower gas prices.
Republicans love to keep repeating Reagan’s old saying about America being that “shining city on the hill the world wants to emulate”. Under their rule along with this president, we have seen that shining city fall into a sink hole and then buried with sewage sludge.
Several White House officials have been forced to resign under scrutiny of scandal. Including two Cabinet Members. Another Cabinet member has been referred to the Justice Department for investigation into fraud while in office. His first National Security Advisor has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. His campaign manager has been found guilty of several fraud charges. The assistant to that campaign manager has pleaded guilty to several fraud charges. His own personal lawyer has pleaded guilty to several fraud charges including two campaign finance law violations that he says were ordered by trump himself.
He refused to acknowledge that Russia did in fact meddle in our elections in 2016 and has done nothing to make sure that can’t happen again. He keeps calling on his political opponent to be “locked up” when members of his own family did the exact same thing as his opponent. He wants to “prosecute” the former FBI Director who is also a witness to any possible obstruction of justice charges against trump.
He constantly turns a blind eye to the murder of Russian journalists and political opponents of Putin. He turns a blind eye to the murder of political opponents of the dictator Kim Jung-Un in North Korea. And, he now turns a blind eye to the murder of a legal U.S. resident by the Saudi Arabia Crown Prince.
The depravity of this administration is unbelievable. We have never seen such depravity in our government in our over 200 years of existence. People keep asking where is the bottom of this pit we have been drug into. Apparently, there is no bottom.
The worst part in all of this is the very people who claim to be “god fearing good Christians” are all staying quiet about these issues. They are allowing this creep to keep letting money be the only thing that matters, even over human life.
His own party that has tried to maintain the crown of “patriots” and “national security” and “morality” heroes are also staying quiet and allowing this depravity to continue. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has signed on with the devil in the name of power. They no longer care about American ideals or American morality. They only care about power and money.
We have gone from a country that values freedom, human rights, morality and equality for all to a nation that says those things do not count as much as money. We have gone from being the leader of the free world to another tin-horn dictatorship loving country where the leaders don’t believe the law pertains to them.
And imagine, all of this in just two short years. Heaven help us in the coming two years.
And, the shirts keep marching along.
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