Week One in the Books

Sigh. Probably the most ‘interesting’ week in U.S history in quite some time as President Obama morphed into Fuhrer Trump. It was stunning. In fact describing it as chilling I don’t think is hyperbole.

I mean, what do you even attempt to say at this point and we’re only one week in? Okay…from 2000 thru 2008, George W Bush deported 2 million people back to Mexico, and as I hope Trump Trekkies remember–Bush is a Texan and has his own ranch in Crawford and you know was kinda the governor of Texas before he became president. Now—from 2009 thru 2016, Barack Obama deported 2.5 million people back to Mexico which gives him the No. 1 rank in that category as a U.S. president…ever. More to the point, illegal immigration from Mexico into the U.S. is at a forty year low.

More to the point, Mexico is the second leading importer of U.S goods and one of our staunchest allies and I would hope even the staunchest Trump Trekkie would look at a map and realize it might be somewhat important that the U.S. and Mexico have a symbiotic partnership of sorts. Quid pro quo per se.

Lawrence O’Donnell is loving all this in a sadistic sort of way. I won’t watch Rachael Maddow—she’s too shrill for me. But I have to say, I do enjoy watching O’Donnell because he’s presenting the case of the U.S Constitution vs. Donald Trump–and doing it like any good trial lawyer would. My father, the trial lawyer, would have been beside himself by now and broken at least one flat screen by hurling something at our Village Idiot President.

I might be putting quite a bit of Lawrence on here moving forward until the Unites States selects the ghost of Vince Bugliosi to special prosecute the impeachment of Donald Trump. Make no make mistake about this, where we’re headed as a nation currently will most likely make the Nixon ending seem tame in comparison. Not even close. There’s a reason we have a Constitution, and if you’re even remotely paying attention Donald Trump could care less. But of course who cares about all that when we have to get to the bottom of birtherism, voter fraud, and crowd size or even if Ted Cruz’s father really killed JFK.

In closing, for the 60 million or so who voted for this pathetic caricature of how far America has fallen, I have no empathy for you, none. You should have known better and were told so by both parties or just reasonable people in your everyday lives. But for the other 270 million Americans who didn’t vote for this clown at least we can take solace that at the very least we didn’t completely turn our backs and succumb to this endless stream of stupidity, vulgarity, and self flagulation. At least we have that even if it feels shallow right now, but you know what—that’s why people have to vote, educate themselves about civics, history, and the world. So if nothing else comes out of this, I hope Americans who didn’t vote come to realize what a precious commodity freedom truly is. Please get smarter and vote.

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