I
decided to do a separate post for each day, and then add it to my archive,
highlighting life in Trumpistan.
January 4, 2018 (Day 350): President Trump decides
he just can’t let a day go by without undercutting fundamental democratic
institutions. So he does what he does best. He studies policy.
A, ha, ha, ha, I amuse
myself.
Of course he doesn’t. He
tweets. Today his topic is rigged elections. Did you know his Commission on
Voter Fraud just disbanded? Well, it did. “Many mostly
Democrat States refused to hand over data from the 2016 Election to the
Commission On Voter Fraud,” Trump tweet whines. “They fought hard that the
Commission not see their records or methods because they know that many people
are voting illegally. System is rigged, must go to Voter I.D.”
You may not remember, but last summer a handful of
states, a mere 44, refused to provide all the
information Trumpenfuhrer demanded.
Ah…and the District of Columbia.
Fortunately, Alabama did recently comply with the Trump Administration
order, which in a way makes it even more depressing for the president to realize
accused child molester Roy Moore still couldn’t get elected with his specific blessing.
Even better than that, Kansas also complied. Kansas is
the great state where the head of the Commission on Voter Fraud, Kris Kobach, got
his start cleaning up all the rampant fraud in American elections. He worked
like a right-wing beaver, Kris Kobach of Kansas did. In a matter of only four
or five years he managed to secure nine whole convictions
for voter fraud, over the course of multiple elections, in a state with a
population of 1.8 million.
Clearly, a huge issue.
Trumpenfuhrer tweets
once and then he has to mull his course of action. What should he do next with
his valuable time as president?
He decides to flog his
favorite target. Minorities. No, I mean kneeling NFL players. (They just so happen
to be almost all African American.) Really, who could possibly imagine in their
wildest fantasies that Donald J. Trump is playing to the racist portion of his base?
In any case, he tweets
again, this time providing a link
to the picture below, from last September. His tweet reads, “So
beautiful....Show this picture to the NFL players who still kneel!”
Much respect to all who
have fallen in the fight for American freedom and to loved ones who pay such a high
price. Still, as a good patriotic American myself, and one who enlisted in the
United States Marines in 1968, when Trump’s sore feet hurt too much for him to
ever serve his country, there are plenty of reasons I can see why NFL players are
protesting. And here’s one of my own. If I were to kneel during the National Anthem,
would I be disrespecting the flag—or would I be standing up by kneeling down
for freedom. I’m a very big fan of the First Amendment right to protest.
Indeed, you know who I
think really disrespected our flag. I think it was Don Jr. and Jared, when they
met with those Russians in the summer of 2016, in order to get dirt on a
political opponent.
That’s the same meeting that
led even right-wing-crazy Steve Bannon to say the actions of those boys were “treasonous,”
possibly, and “unpatriotic” without a doubt.
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| Seems to me like Don Jr. and Jared have their flags all mixed up. |
As for minority players
kneeling, Mr. President, perhaps they’re protesting this kind of symbolism and
support for your positions, and your disinclination to condemn these sorts of
individuals:
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| Even racists have the right to protest, President Trump. But not all protesters are equal. |
Or it might be players are protesting against this kind of police abuse (and no, not all police are
abusive):
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| Walter Scott, unarmed and running away, get shot in the back. |
Again, all sympathy should
go out to that soldier’s poor wife and to the child who will never know its
father.
That doesn’t mean Walter
Scott’s family doesn’t also has a grave to visit and to weep over.
Finally, on Day 350 in
Trumpistan, lawyers for the president go to court to try to halt publication of
the new book, Fire and Fury.
Because that’s what we
do in Trumpistan.
We ban books.
So here’s a good rule of
thumb, I think, whether you’re conservative or liberal or a Whig or a Know
Nothing. If a government tries to curtail the right to protest, or the right of
free speech, or freedom of the press, beware. NFL players have every right to
protest. So do neo-Nazis. So do Tea Party types and “Never Trump” Resisters. If
Fox News is still on television during the Obama years, that’s a good thing;
and the same goes for CNN in Trumpistan.
That’s what the First
Amendment is all about—and there’s a reason the Founding Fathers listed it before
all others.
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