I Don’t
Hate Donald. I Do Find Him Repulsive.
LAST WEEK, a distant relative, whom I have never met, told me on Facebook that I should be “ashamed” to vote for Kamala. He said it was obvious that I “hated” Donald Trump with all my being.
As far as I know, the gentleman is a decent fellow, perhaps even a patriot, and as good an American as I am.
So let me explain why I would
never vote for Donald Dumpling, as I sometimes like to call him. I don’t have
TDS, or “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” I’ve
also been told I do.
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The blogger at Parris Island - March 1969. |
What I do have is an abiding love for this nation’s core values, even those often unfulfilled. I taught American history for decades, and had students memorize the key 84-word section in the Declaration of Independence. I tried my best to make sure they knew what those words meant. (You can read up on the Declaration on my less controversial teacher’s blog.)
“All men are created equal,” I
think still rings true to this very minute, hour, and day. Only sub in the word
“humans” for “men,” and we are good to go.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government.”
A second message that I tried to impress was that hate is a blinding emotion. When demagogues employ hate, and when dehumanizing language is wielded to create irrational fear, the path to violence and bloodshed is thrown wide.
You see, I don’t “hate” Trump. I
simply find him to be a repulsive human being. I wouldn’t want a man like him
for a next door neighbor, or to marry one of my daughters. I wouldn’t trust the
same kind of person to do work on my car engine or renovate my kitchen. I definitely
not care to be sitting in the same
locker room listening to a Donald-like individual, bragging about grabbing
women by the pussy and how he could “get away with it.” I have women I care
about deeply in my life – and I wouldn’t want some entitled creep to start
groping them uninvited.
Donald is a master at stoking hatred and fear.
I saw one of those stupid memes on Facebook recently, one that said if you saw a Harris/Walz sign in your neighbor’s yard, check on them, because they must be having a mental breakdown.
I will admit I hate
stupid memes. So why am I not voting for the former president? I am happy to explain.
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1. I would argue (correctly, I believe) that Mr. Trump launched himself into politics, by focusing on fear mongering. For five years (2011-2016) he devoted himself to scaring Americans into believing that Barack Obama was an illegitimate president – that he was not even born in this country.
To hammer home that fear, he needed fans to believe that Obama was an “invader,” a Muslim! Trump never failed to refer to him as “Barack Hussein Obama.”
Always emphasizing that middle name. Always trying to light up those hate and fear centers in people’s brains.
He did it again, in the GOP primaries earlier this year, making sure he mentioned Nikki Haley’s more foreign-sounding birth name – and then mispronouncing it, hoping for subtle racist laughs. Not her real first name, “Nimarata,” or “Nikki,” a middle name she has always used, but “Nimbra.” He even used a variation of his “birther” lie, implying that she could not be a U.S. citizen because her parents weren’t citizens when she was born in this country in 1972. Donald knew he could count on fear of the “other,” to score political points with those prone to racist thinking. So, shameless as I believe he is, he fueled the fear of Haley, and her “kind.”
A brown person.
2. In fact, the repulsion I feel for Trump first began to grow in 2015, when, set on running for office, he glided down the golden escalator in Trump Tower and picked another target. He attacked Mexican immigrants, referring to them as “drug dealers,” “criminals,” and “rapists.”
3. I can remember, too, when Republicans had spines, and principles one could respect. Sen. Lindsey Graham correctly called Trump in those days, “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”
4. I remember when Trump insulted the looks of Heidi Cruz, the wife of Sen. Ted Cruz, and how Ted called him a “sniveling coward.” I think Ted should have punched him out. Instead, Cruz now grovels when Donald calls.
5. Nine years have passed since Donald descended that infernal escalator, and he hasn’t improved. He’s gotten meaner. He’s perfected hateful screeds. Now it’s Haitians he wants us to fear. Those people. “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets,” Trump barked during his debate with Harris. It’s not an appeal to logic. It’s an appeal to worst instincts.
“My gawd, Maude,” he wants
supporters to say, “Hide Rover, those dark-skin folk are coming to pick his
bones!”
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I tried to teach students that Terrence was right. |
6. Naturally, I was horrified this past weekend when a “comedian” at the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden made the following ”joke.” “Did you know there’s literally an island of garbage floating in the middle of the ocean right now? Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
7. You couldn’t fail to notice that plenty of people in the audience laughed and cheered.
8. I suspect neither the comedian nor many of the MAGA folks in attendance understood that Puerto Rico is a part of the United States.
9. I also fear to think that most of the MAGA men and women have forgotten that after the island was pulverized by Hurricane Maria in September 2017, Trump attacked the mayor of San Juan after she criticized the federal government’s response in sending aid. Donald didn’t promise to speed up help – which would be the normal response of any good president. He labeled her “totally incompetent” and said she and other island leaders were “not able to get their workers” to do the job.
10. All the Puerto Ricans wanted was “more handouts,” he added. You know: Those “lazy” dark-skinned folk.
11. Here’s another reason I don’t like the man. I’m a Marine veteran. At a time when he was implying that all the people in Puerto Ricans were worthless, there were 330,000 veterans from the island.
12. Another 35,000 Puerto Ricans were serving in the U.S. military. So I hope they think twice about voting for Trump.
13. Here it seems like an opportune moment to touch on the former president’s feigned patriotism. As I often point out, no member of his direct family line has ever served in uniform for this country. Not Friedrich, the first Trump to arrive in 1885. Not Fred, Donald’s father. Definitely not Donald.
14. Also not choosing to serve, his children: Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, and Tiffany. Maybe Barron will buck family tradition.
15. Maybe Donald’s grandchildren?
I doubt it.
16. Just a few days ago, Gen. John Kelly, who served longer than any other White House chief of staff under Trump, made it clear. He had heard Donald call veterans, especially those who died in action, “suckers” and “losers.”
17. A campaign spokesman for Trump responded and said the general had “beclowned himself.” As far as I can tell, most in MAGA Land kept right on believing Donald, who said he never said it. But it was hard to forget the day Donald told an audience that Sen. John McCain wasn’t a war hero. He was a “loser.” Donald said he liked “people who don’t get captured.”
18. Which, I guess, makes every member of the Trump family a bona fide hero, because they’ll never to have to worry about getting captured, hanging with billionaire buddies at those private country clubs.
Hey, Elon Musk wants a tax cut!
19. In terms of hating and fearing, I don’t hate or fear immigrants, myself. I respect my Irish roots on my mother’s side. But I do know that Mr. Trump has made a habit of hiring immigrants, and never quibbling about documents. We can include undocumented construction workers, and those willing to clean rooms and groom putting greens on golf courses at his clubs.
20. We should remember that Donald has hired more than a thousand foreigners, who applied to come here on special worker’s visas. Why? Because he knew he could pay them less than American job seekers.
21. We can also include the undocumented Polish laborers he tried to stiff on pay in the 1980s. They had done most of the work to tear down an existing building, and make way for Trump Tower New York.
22. Even “better,” if workers were undocumented – like the Poles – it made it near impossible for them to complain if Donald didn’t pay overtime, and Trump could avoid paying for health insurance.
Cha-ching, Donald!
23. I’m pro-worker, both native born and immigrant. But I watched when Trump told a rally crowd recently that he hated paying overtime and always tried to make sure employees didn’t get it.
24. I also listened with disgust when the former president and his weird billionaire pal Elon laughed it up about firing workers who dared go on strike to fight for higher wages and better benefits.
“He tried to lift my dress.”
25. I’ve always been amazed, how, during his first run for office, Donald was accused by 16 or 22 women, depending on how you counted, of groping and in numerous ways abusing them sexually.
TDS? I don’t have a “syndrome.” I can’t fathom how the MAGA folks figure they can believe him – but not the 16 or 22 accusers.
26. And now we need to add another. Stacey Williams, a former Sports
Illustrated swimsuit model, stepped forward a few days ago, and described
an incident where Donald got her in a clench and ran his hands all up and down
her body.
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27. And another: Yesterday, Beatrice Keul,
a Swiss beauty queen described how, in 1993, Donald lured her to his penthouse.
“When I entered, he jumped on me. I just had time to turn. I was
not prepared. I tried to do what I could to get rid of him.”
“He kissed me on the lips and on the neck. He
tried to lift my dress. He was grabbing and touching my body everywhere he
could,” Keul says.
You don’t have to “hate” Donald to know you’d be furious if your wife or daughters were victimized the same way as Beatrice.
28. Hell, I don’t have the best marriage history, myself – except with my current wife of 38 years. But I know Donald cheated on all three wives. Even the women he married know he can’t be trusted.
I suspect the former First Lady knows more than she lets on, but this much is mere supposition. Still, it did seem odd when, this past August, she posted on social media about her love for New York City, which she called “my home.”
29. As for why she might still occasionally show support for Donald, I’ll be honest. If you paid me $237,500 to give a speech to a Republican gathering – as Melania was last April – even I’d be tempted.
30. In addition to my own family background, I don’t fear immigrants because I taught history. I don’t fear Melania, whose father was a member of the Communist Party, because she wasn’t. I just wish the MAGA faithful who have Irish, Italian, Polish, Greek, and many other ancestries, would understand that their ancestors, when disembarking on these shores, were feared and despised, in turn.
31. The Irish, my mother’s people, were said to be “too Catholic.” They weren’t eating the pets, of course, but they were eating fish on Friday. Many “good Americans” were sure they’d never be loyal Americans, but loyal, first, to the pope in Rome.
32. As for Italians, they were “too criminal.”
33. The Polish were “too stupid.”
34. The Greeks were “not white enough.”
35. The Russians were “too Jewish.”
36. The Chinese? The Japanese? We
banned immigrants from Asia almost completely, until laws changed in 1965, by
which time I was already in high school. Those folks were “too yellow.” As in
“The Yellow Peril.” (Look it up.)
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The Irish Brigade: Battle of the Antietam. September 1862. Fighting for an adopted country. |
37. Another group I do not fear, would be the Muslims. I think in terms of individuals, not hobgoblin human stereotypes. I was appalled when Trump, in his first term, pushed a Muslim travel ban.
Yes, of course, it makes perfect sense to fear the terrorists.
38. But the first travel ban applied to Iraqis and Afghans who fought on our side, against ISIS and the other terrorists.
39. The people who smashed ISIS, were the Kurds, both in Iraq and Syria, and they suffered thousands of killed and wounded, and spared our fighting forces. If you don’t remember how Trump screwed them, I do.
F**k the Kurds, he said, just keep the oil.
Fear the pronouns!
40. During this election cycle we have heard Trump warn that since he left office terrorists have been pouring across our southern border.
These terrorists must be the ineptest folks in history because I don’t remember a single mass casualty Muslim terrorist attack in this country since Biden took over. I might be missing one, but I can’t recall any.
41. While you’re looking, I do know there was a mass casualty attack in Lewiston, Maine in 2022; but the attacker was a native born U.S. Army veteran.
42. The deadliest terror attack in this country, since 9/11, is the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017, that left 58 dead. That was the work of a bettor bitter over losses he had sustained in the casinos.
Typical white guy with military-grade weaponry.
43. Speaking of which: Home-grown crazy people would include the shooter who only nicked Trump’s ear (fortunately) at a rally in July, the guy lurking in the weeds, hoping to shoot the former president as he was golfing in Florida, and the third guy who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s California home and critically injured her husband with a hammer.
44. Trump actually made a number of jokes about the attack on Pelosi’s husband. I can only add that to my list of reasons why I would never vote for a man who thought the fractured skull of an 82-year-old was a subject fit for humor.
45. I’m sorry for you, too, if you love Donald, and fail to see the problem.
46. I was also disgusted when Trump allies insisted the attacker was gay, and so was Mr. Pelosi, and that the violence was the result of a gay encounter gone awry. Again, I’m sorry, but too many Trump fans will believe anything.
47. See for example all the QAnon manure that has been spread, as in “Biden is a robot,” or “Biden actually stepped down as president” in December 2021, and he’s been played by a body double.
I think if Democrats could pull
that trick, they’d have chosen someone who could have done better in the last
Biden-Trump debate.
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They will believe anything. |
48. How about the all-out effort by Trump and the other Republicans to spread visceral fear of transgender athletes playing girls’ sports, and hatred of transgender individuals generally. How many campaign commercials on this topic have they paid for??? Watching TV, it seems like a million.
49. I’m a former teacher. I’m more worried about the ongoing plague of school shootings than I am about a person’s pronouns.
My granddaughter, a sixth grader, recently told me she was scared because they had a program at her school about what to do in case of an active school shooter. I figure the transgender kids were scared too.
50. Here’s another reason I won’t vote for Trump – or most Republicans. They oppose universal background checks for gun buyers.
Neo-Nazis have been clear: Trump is their kind of guy.
51. As I’ve said, I don’t like haters, and I’m not one. So I was horrified when a Mississippi Republican said those who support transgender rights should be executed. “I think they need to be lined up against [a] wall before a firing squad to be sent to an early judgment.”
52. We can also include the Texas pastor who said gays should be executed.
53. Which reminds me of L. Lin Wood, a Georgia lawyer, who talked about executing Vice President Pence after he refused to help Donald steal the electoral votes of the State of Georgia.
54. Which, if you are keeping track, brings us back to Donald, who says Gen. Mark Milley should stand trial for treason: A crime punishable by hanging.
55. As for that pastor in Texas, he definitely sounded like Hitler, who ordered gay people rounded up and sent to the gas chambers. Jews wore yellow stars. Gays in Nazi camps wore pink triangles.
56. I’m not afraid of gay people, myself, because my favorite cousin Bill was gay, and a combat veteran in Vietnam. Bill didn’t have imaginary bone spurs.
57. Neither did my older brother, born the same year as Donald, who spent a good chunk of 1972 tramping the jungle.
(I did volunteer twice
to go to Vietnam; but I was never sent.)
58. Unlike Donald, I respect all who serve this nation honorably. By one estimate 15,500 transgender individuals are currently doing duty in the U.S. military. I’m skeptical about that number, but even if that estimate is off by a factor of ten, I would thank the 1,550 persons for their service.
59. Come to think of it, I fear none of the groups Donald has taught his fans to fear and even despise. I thought he disqualified himself from holding office when he referred to political opponents as “vermin.”
60. His repeated use of the
word “scum” to attack those with whom he has disagreed also puts him squarely
in the camp of demagogues.
61. Since I taught history, I’ve read Hitler’s Mein Kampf and know Hitler was a master at using dehumanizing language to make followers fear and hate and not blink when the gasmen swung into action.
Hardly a day has gone by, since Donald came down the escalator, that he has failed to dehumanize others
62. Hitler talked endlessly about Jews and others “poisoning” the blood of the Aryan people.
63. When Donald talks about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country,” I hear Third Reich echoes.
64. Trump has also said, a thousand times, that immigrants are invading this country (I guess that includes those he has hired).
65. Maybe we should focus more on the white guy who went to El Paso in August 2019, and gunned down 23 innocent individuals. He didn’t sneak across a border. He drove south to El Paso – and said he was going to help stop the invasion of this country, sounding an awful lot like Donald.
66. I also pay attention to the fact that neo-Nazis of the American variety really do approve of Donald and his language. In November 2016, you could watch Richard Spencer hail Trump’s victory.
Complete with stiff-arm Nazi salutes.
67. You could listen to the stirring words of Rocky Suhayda, leader of the American Nazi Party, who promised followers, that if Donald won in 2016, “OK, it’s going to be a real opportunity for people like white nationalists, acting intelligently to build upon that.”
68. You could look up Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, a former member of that same party, who ran for Congress as a Republican, and said he stood “shoulder to shoulder philosophically” with Donald.
69. You could consider Juan Pablo Andrade, executive advisor for the National Diversity Coalition for Trump – obviously, a stunning hypocrisy. He got canned after a video surfaced, showing him shouting, “The only thing the Nazis didn’t get right is they didn’t keep f**king going!”
70. Don’t forget John Fitzgerald, a second congressional candidate endorsed by the GOP, also a Holocaust denier.
Indeed, by the company one keeps we may judge a person’s character; and we know Fitzgerald showed up on John Friend’s radio program. Friend is a neo-Nazi who has said that the “Jews Did 9/11,” and claimed Adolf Hitler was “the greatest thing that’s happened to Western civilization.”
71. In fact, the Proud Boys, who came to D.C. on January 6, 2021, ready to riot to save a second term for Donald, are much motivated by white nationalism.
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Proud Boys and friends flashing the "White Power" sign. |
72. I believe informed voters should know that one of Trump’s most sycophantic advisors, Stephen Miller, a true hater, is fond of pushing others to read the ultra-racist book, Camp of the Saints, and for peddling the terrifying “White Replacement” theory. “Terrifying,” that is, to white people already inclined to be fearful of non-white people.
73. I don’t hate Donald. I just remember. I remember when President Trump published a barrage of tweets about four Democratic members of Congress, all women of color. He called on them to “go back where they came from,” which was not only racist, but stupid, since three were born in this country. That would include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, born in Puerto Rico.
Yep. Part of this country.
74. I particularly enjoyed
learning that the family of Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), one of the four women,
had been in this country far longer than Trump’s. Of course, her ancestors
arrived on slave ships.
75. I also remember reading about Blake Neff, former producer of Tucker Carlson’s then hugely successful nightly show on Fox. It was eventually revealed that Neff had made all kinds of misogynistic and racist comments online. For example, he posted, “Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down.”
He also jumped onto a thread with the title, “Mary Poppins getting raped by a pack of wild n*****s at the park; kids watching.” He also commented on a thread titled, “DIKES get wrong CUM at CUMBANK. N*****R pops out.”
There were no asterisks in the originals.
76. It was also hard to ignore when the founder of Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi publication, sniffed out the subtle meanings behind many of Tuck’s opinions. Tucker Carlson Tonight, he told his neo-Nazi buddies, is “basically Daily Stormer: The Show.” Carlson, he added, is “literally our greatest ally” on air.
77.
Trump and Carlson, of course, will be campaigning together, in Arizona today,
fittingly on Halloween. I think Tucker should show up at the rally dressed in hood
and sheets.
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Nazis marched in Charlottesville in 2017. |
78. We also know that Trump has had to make excuses after Nick Fuentes came to Mar-a-Lago to dine and socialize. Nick once compared the gas chambers and ovens of Nazi Germany to Cookie Monster baking cookies.
79. I don’t hate others. Still, if you can stomach the likes of Nick Fuentes, I would argue you’re no good American.
The same applies to Stephen Miller.
80. We also know Trump has endorsed Mark Robinson for governor in North Carolina – although he’s now pretending that he didn’t. Robinson, who is African American, allegedly said that if slavery were brought back, he would own a few slaves. “I would certainly buy a few,” he posted online.
He also called himself a “black Nazi.”
Cheaper bacon vs. the U.S. Constitution.
As much as the hatred Trump enjoys peddling repulse me, I vehemently refuse to support a man who places himself above the Constitution. I am not, to put a point on it, willing to sell the freedom of future generations in return for cheaper gas and lower prices on bacon, starting in January.
Assuming Donald wins the election and saves the American breakfast.
Now, if you are upset about inflation, during President Biden’s four years in office, that I can understand.
I myself am a huge fan of bacon,
and I tried to have a few crisp strips of greasy pork for breakfast every day I
spent this past summer, bicycling from Bar Harbor, Maine, to Kalispell,
Montana.
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Cleaning up after a night of camping, somewhere in Montana. |
81. Now to be serious. Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, says then-President Trump endangered his life, the life of his family members, and the lives of police officers and others by calling out the mob on January 6, 2021.
Pence calls him unfit for office.
82. One police officer died the day after the riot, from a heart attack. Four more would later commit suicide. One rioter was shot and killed during the pointless mayhem. Another was trampled to death by the mob. At least four rioters who were charged have also committed suicide.
That’s eleven lives wasted, if you were counting.
83. A total of 140 police officers were injured during that attack on democracy, including several who suffered career-ending damage.
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Injuries suffered by one officer on January 6. |
84. I’m also appalled by statements made by jerks like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – naturally, an avid Trump supporter. Referring to the January 6 attack on D.C, she later assured an audience, “If Steve Bannon and I organized that [attack], we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”
So funny: a member of Congress, fantasizing about Americans killing other Americans, including police.
85. The former president recently called January 6, a “day of love,” which I’m sorry, is truly nutty.
86. Trump has also said he will “absolutely” pardon the attackers as soon as he takes office, if he wins.
87. I’m certainly not the only one who thinks Donald Trump is dangerous. The day before the riot, the ten living secretaries of defense penned an open letter, calling then-President Trump “a threat to the Constitution.”
That included Gen. James Mattis, and Mark Esper, Trump’s first two secretaries of defense, who came to know him, as he truly is, behind doors.
88. Mr. Esper has also warned us that Donald suggested using the U.S. military to break up a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Washington D.C., by having troops start shooting protesters.
89. Peaceful protesters, Trump fans! Are you not getting this?
90. I also know that in the wake of the January 6 riot, Trump’s third secretary of defense, Christopher Miller, said that the president’s words before the attack, and the violence that ensued, were “cause and effect.”
91. Is there anyone else who might fear a Trump return to office? His second National Security Advisor, Gen. H.R. McMaster, says Trump lost the 2020 election, but his ego would not allow him to face it. Instead, he abandoned “his oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution,’ a president’s highest obligation.”
(From: At
War with Ourselves, by H.R. McMaster, p. 333.)
92. His third National Security Advisor, John Bolton, says Trump put self interest ahead of U.S. national security when he held up critical military aid to Ukraine in 2019. He will not be voting for Trump, either.
93. Trump’s first National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael T. Flynn, still loves Donald, which is just another problem. Flynn was fired for lying about meeting with Russians back in 2016, and pleaded guilty to a felony.
94. Following the 2020 election,
he whispered sweet nothings in the president’s ear, urging him to send the military into states Donald lost, and
seize voting machines.
95. This plan was the very essence of authoritarianism.
96. Trump later granted Flynn a pardon.
97. Trump superfan and MyPillow guy Mike Lindell also wanted Donald to deploy troops to negate the voting.
98. Lindell said he had proof that the election was stolen – and would pay anyone who could prove him wrong $5 million. A forensic expert quickly showed that most of Mike’s proof was computer gibberish, just random 0’s and 1’s.
99. Mike refused to pay the bet but a judge has ruled he has too.
No court has found proof the election was stolen.
100. Is there really any proof that the 2020 election was stolen? I could give you a hundred examples here of why there isn’t; but I’ll just pick my favorites. For starters, Team Trump paid $3 million for a partial recount of votes in Wisconsin. Biden gained a few dozen, which is definitely funny.
101. Long after the voting ended, Team Trump was still trying to prove significant voter fraud had occurred. They paid $6 million dollars for a recount of votes in Arizona. Biden gained 360. That was comical.
102. In the weeks after Biden was declared victor, Trump spent his days howling about how he was cheated out of 6,000 votes in Antrim County, Michigan. He said that proved the voting machines had to be rigged.
103. His own attorney general, Bill Barr, told him on three occasions, before resigning in disgust, that his claims of significant fraud were “bullshit.”
104. Barr later repeated his story under oath. Unable to accept defeat, Barr added, Trump became “detached from reality.”
105. He’s still detached, still insisting Democrats cheated. Far more worrisome, tens of millions of the MAGA faithful believe him.
106. Yet we know, if we try to stay informed, that on December 17, 2020, Republican officials in Antrim completed a hand recount of votes and Trump posted a measly gain of 12.
107. If you are a math-challenged MAGA, and you are following along, twelve is definitely less than 6,000.
So put away your guns, that’s no cause for civil war or revolution.
108. Trump also claimed that two Georgia poll workers, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shaye Moss, cheated and counted 18,000 votes three times.
109. Trump’s top lawyers, in particular Rudy Giuliani, spread that tall tale across the right-wing mediascape.
As a result, Freeman and Moss were inundated with death threats. One person left a message for Mrs. Freeman (the women are black), saying he wanted to see her lynched, and had dreams about hearing her neck snap.
110. The F.B.I. examined claims of vote stealing in Georgia – found none – and cleared mother and daughter.
111. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation likewise cleared the women.
112. The Republican governor of the state, Brian Kemp, said the election was not rigged or stolen.
113. The Georgia Board of Elections next cleared Freeman and Moss of wrongdoing.
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Moss, foreground, and Freeman in red, testified under oath. Neither woman felt a need to plead the Fifth. |
114. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State, conducted two recounts, one hand, one machine, and found no evidence of rigging, or cheating, or even jaywalking. Trump did gain 1,779 votes – when five million ballots were counted.
115. Unfortunately, if you believe in the oft-told story of evil, America-hating Democrats rigging elections, in the real world the biggest blunder by far came in deep red Floyd County – where most voters love Donald, and where elections are monitored by officials who also love the Orange Dumpling. They forgot to upload all their precincts, and came within a third recount of costing Donald 800 votes.
116. Remember Al Gore? He lost Florida in the 2000 election, by 537 votes, and the loss of that state cost him victory, and a chance to be president. He could only dream of having had a statewide recount.
117. The U.S. Supreme Court voted against it, 5-4, ruling that there was not enough time to conduct a recount.
118. All five “no” votes were
Republican-appointed justices. That included Justice Clarence Thomas. Clarence’s
wife, Ginni, is now a stubborn, misinformed, pro-Trump election denier herself.
119. As for Clarence, I don’t like him much either, because we now know he has taken several million dollars in gifts from fat cat Republican billionaires. See, for example: His free $267,000 recreational vehicle.
120. I can definitely say, no one has ever given me a free $267,000 RV. But I wouldn’t trust people who would give me one, if I were a judge, because I would assume they were expecting legal favors.
121. Senator Gore did not call on supporters to march on Washington and attack the Capitol. Had he, that would have been an existential threat to our democracy, and I would list him among the worst American politicians in history.
122. Fun fact: Did you know Donald first called on people to “march on Washington” after the 2012 election? Now you do, and you can thank me.
At the time, Donald was mad because he thought Obama was going to lose the popular vote, but still win in the Electoral College. Mr. Trump screamed that this was a “disgrace,” yowled, that “the loser one.” Yeah, he had the wrong word there.
He said such voting results would make America the “laughing stock” of the world. He got that word wrong, two. ← (Blogger joke.)
It’s “laughingstock.”
123. Guess who did lose the popular vote and still win the presidency. Nope, not Obama. In 2012, he went on to win the popular vote by three million. It was Donald in 2016. He did not call his win a disgrace.
124. Polls clearly showed he had no chance to win the popular vote in 2020, and he didn’t, but he came close to gaining a second term, thanks to the way Electoral College voting is conducted.
Lies and defamation losses piled up.
125. As for real attempts to steal elections, Donald Dumpling did call Secretary of State Raffensperger on January 2, 2021, and did ask him to “find” the 11,780 votes he needed to “win” Georgia.
You can listen to the call yourself, because it was recorded, and if you cared about honest elections, you would.
But if you’re MAGA I don’ think
you will.
LISTEN ABOVE.
126. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani kept lying about Freeman and Moss stealing votes. He said they counted 18,000 votes eight times (Trump had said three), meaning the poor women stole 144,000 votes.
Eventually they sued him for defamation.
127. Rudy promptly refused to provide documents a judge demanded, regarding the defamation suit. A disgusted jury awarded the two women $148.2 million.
128. Freeman and Moss also won a
defamation suit against One American News and
were awarded $2.3 million.
129. In a similar fashion, E. Jean Carroll, one of the women who accused Mr. Trump of sexual abuse during the 2016 campaign, finally sued him for defamation, after he repeatedly slammed her as a liar and said he never touched her and didn’t even know her. A jury heard the evidence and voted, 9-0 (it was a civil case) in Carroll’s favor.
130. They believed her story, that he digitally penetrated her in a dressing room in a department store, back in 1996. She was awarded $5 million in damages. Ms. Carroll’s story was backed up by two women who testified (under oath) that she had called them soon after the incident occurred, and they had talked about what she could do.
131. Not a single juror believed Donald was innocent – and he was paying for a whole law firm’s worth of high-priced lawyers.
132. Trump lost his sh*t, and blasted Carroll as an even bigger liar. A second defamation trial resulted. A second jury sided with Carroll, 9-0. This time they awarded her $83.3 million.
133. In two separate civil lawsuits, 0 jurors believed Donald.
134.
The MAGA faithful heard the news (sanitized on Fox News) and decided 18 regular
Americans could not be trusted to render justice; but Donald could be trusted
to lead the nation.
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Alina Habba: I think Trump hired one lawyer because she was hot. |
Fox News makes viewers measurably dumber.
135. Meanwhile, Team Trump lawyers, and Donald himself, insisted Dominion Voting Machines were rigged (as in Antrim County – where we know a recount showed they weren’t). Fox News ran wild with the fable and sold the nightly bedtime story, to millions of terrified viewers.
In this case, watching Fox made people measurably dumber.
Fortunately, before I form an opinion, I look for corroborating evidence. So, I can report that Dominion sued Fox for defamation, and lawyers got their hand on piles and piles of internal Fox News communications.
136. Behind the scenes, it was shown that even Tucker Carlson understood that tall tales of massive voter rigging were “absurd,” or as one Fox executive described claims by Trump lawyer Sidney Powell of massive rigging, “MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS.”
137. Even Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, had to admit stars like Carlson, and Sean Hannity “endorsed” lies.
138. Fox realized its brand would be badly damaged if the lawsuit went to trial and evidence spilled out into public view, and decided to settle for $787.5 million, and keep the evidence buried.
139. That’s right: $787.5 million!
140. In terms of “Stolen Election” lies told by multiple members of Team Trump, including by The Dumpling, it would take time to pry the truth out of many of them – protected by a phalanx of pricey attorneys, as they were. Take for example, the three members of what was supposedly an “elite task force,” a force that was going to prove Donald got screwed out of a second term. Lawyer Jenna Ellis, one third of that misfit crew, would later have her license to practice law suspended in Colorado, after admitting to ten specific lies she told about the 2020 election being rigged.
141. Donald Dumpling still tells lies about it daily. His count of fabrications must be up around a billion. NO COURT has ever ruled in his favor – in any case over the last four years – upholding any claim that significant voter fraud altered the outcome of the last presidential contest.
142. As for Ellis, she would also plead guilty to a felony, for her part in the effort to steal electoral votes in Georgia (and other states) for Donald.
143. Ms. Powell, a second third of the “elite task force,” got indicted in Georgia, herself, and pleaded guilty to six misdemeanors, including one for conspiracy. She had to pay $8,700 in fines and restitution, and found herself facing six years on probation. During that time she must avoid further lying.
144. Another Team Trump lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, also got indicted in Georgia, and also pleaded guilty to a felony.
145. “Cheese” has been indicted in three different states where the plot to steal electoral votes was percolating.
146. He agreed to cooperate with investigators in Michigan – but promptly got caught lying again.
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Chesebro in his mugshot. |
147. The third member of the task force was Rudy Giuliani, and he, too, has been indicted in multiple states.
148. Rudy has tried to declare bankruptcy, but the judge denied his filing, saying he was only trying to evade paying Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss.
149. Now the judge has ordered him to hand over the keys to his multi-million dollar ten-room co-op apartment in New York, and turn over his car, a diamond ring, 26 luxury watches, all kinds of sports memorabilia, and a claim to $2,000,000 he says Trump failed to pay for his work (basically telling as many lies as he could in any ordinary 24- hour period) on the 2020 campaign.
150. Ha, ha. Trump stiffed his own lawyer!
Donald and his pals plead the Fifth.
151. Speaking of court battles, Donald once famously insisted that only “the mob” pleaded the Fifth Amendment (the one where you don’t have to incriminate yourself), and why would you do that if you were innocent? He was castigating Hillary Clinton at the time, for some alleged criminal endeavor.
152. Faced with a fraud trial in New York, earlier this year, the former president sat for a deposition – and took the Fifth 440 times.
That’s a lot, MAGA faithful.
153. Not as “a lot,” as Eric. Donald’s son pleaded the Fifth 500 times.
154. That tied Eric with Allen H. Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, the entity at the center of the trial.
155. This blogger tries to ensure he’s dealing only in proven facts. And it is a fact: Mr. Weisselberg went to jail for five months for cheating on his taxes. The typical MAGA individual is an honest American, in my experience. But I doubt the Trump fans I know personally have ever hidden $1.4 million from the IRS.
156. Allen did. Then he went to jail a second time – for committing perjury during Trump’s criminal trial.
157. It isn’t easy to commit perjury if you are pleading the Fifth five hundred times, but Mr. Weisselberg managed. My favorite lie from that trial would be this: It was claimed for purposes of a bank loan, that Trump’s penthouse in Trump Tower was 30,000 square feet, and so worth $327 million as collateral.
An actual measurement showed the
penthouse was 11,000 square feet, and the other 19,000 was only a theory.
If only someone hand thought to use a tape measure.
158. It is certainly fun to point out that in the State of New York, a defendant who pleads the Fifth can be assumed to be hiding the truth, and can therefore be considered guilty, in all civil cases.
159. Regardless, a jury of ordinary Americans hears the evidence – deliberates when lawyers are done – and not one juror believes Donald is innocent. There are 34 felony charges. They find him guilty of 34 felonies.
Once again, the MAGA faithful decide that the jury must have been rigged, with space aliens, or robots, that the judge was a Trump hater, and the prosecutors were rats, and the MAGAs missed the hard reality.
Trump’s high-price legal team couldn’t win over a single juror on any of the 34 charges. You could argue that the former president might as well have hired crash-test dummies to craft his defense.
160. For fun, you can even watch Donald take the Fifth, in a deposition filmed before the trial.
“Only the mob,” he once said.
WATCH POOR DONALD.
161. We would be remiss if we failed to mention past frauds, including when Donald and his children were banned from doing further “charity work” in New York. That decision came after it was proved that they illegally diverted $2,000,000 in charity funds to support his first run for president.
162. In similar fraudster fashion, Trump University was forced to refund $25 million to students for scamming them with bogus class offerings.
Lots of lying, lots of felons, lots of pardons.
163. As far as the “Stolen Election,” we should remind everyone that three days before the contest in 2020, Trump advisor Steve Bannon told a group of mostly Chinese and Chinese Americans that Trump was just going to say he won, no matter what, and then grab the voting machines, and say, “Suck it.”
164. Again, I revere the U.S. Constitution. If you care about free and fair elections you, like me, can listen to Bannon, because his talk was recorded.
165. Seriously, MAGA friends and neighbors, and even distant relatives, you really should listen. Bannon doesn’t say Trump is going to win.
He’s just going to say he did.
166. By that time, Mr. Bannon had been indicted, along with three pals, after it was shown they had devised a scheme to bilk the MAGA dreamers. Hey! Donate a few million and we will privately build a wall on the Mexican border! No wall was ever built and Bannon’s three partners went to prison.
Not Steve. He was granted a pardon.
167. If it seems like there are a lot of shady characters in this story, we can add Guo Wengui, Bannon’s Chinese buddy, living in exile in this country. Guo got arrested and charged in a plot to commit wire, securities, and bank fraud.
Steve’s kind of people, and Steve is Donald’s kind of people.
168. We also know that Roger Stone, another Trump ally, was working on a “Stop the Steal” plan even before the 2020 election was called in Biden’s favor.
169. He was working on the same “Stop the Steal” plan in 2016. He just didn’t need it.
170. Stone is perhaps best remembered for racking up multiple felonies during the Russia investigation, including one for witness intimidation. My favorite felony was when he said he “forgot” meeting with a Russian – and forgot the Russian was offering dirt on Hillary Clinton – and really, really forgot that the Russian wanted $2,000,000.
I mean who would ever remember such a minor detail, as in: “WTF! This Russian just asked for two million dollars!”
171. Trump pardoned Stone, too, which if you do not find suspicious you had best check your plus, because you are clinically dead.
There was a whole lot of lying during the Russia investigation.
172. Do you love the U.S. Constitution, and the rule of law, and all kinds of checks and balances, and maybe, do you think Vladimir Putin is a creepy murderer? I do. So I won’t be voting for Donald.
See: Invasion of Ukraine, Putin’s murders of political opponents, attempted murder of and death of Alexi Navalny.
173. It is a proven fact that three members of the 2016 Trump campaign met with Russians in Trump Tower in June 2016. Those three: Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and campaign manager Paul Manafort.
174. It is a proven fact that after that meeting was revealed by The New York Times, thirteen months after it took place, that Don Sr. and Don Jr. claimed the topic of discussion was loving American families adopting Russian children.
That was some truly bold lying.
175. Unfortunately – for Donald Dumpling and his equally deceitful son – the Times had emails. Those showed that the meeting had been all about Russians handing over dirt on Hillary Clinton. In other words, the Russians were doing whatever they could to interfere in the 2016 election.
176. In the summer of 2018,
then-President Trump punted and hoped his loyal fans would forget all the lying
(which they did) and said Don Jr. had every right to meet with representatives
of a foreign foe, and let them help shape an election. Now Donald Dumpling
acknowledged the meeting, and tacitly admitted the lying, but offered a lame
new defense. “This was a meeting to
get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics
– and it went nowhere.”
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Junior lied on television. |
So, if I may parse his meaning it would appear he was saying: It was cool if the Russians tried to change who became president, but it didn’t work – and so we covered up the fact we even met with Russians for over a year.
And then, when The New York Times dug out the facts, we just started lying about Russian kids being adopted.
177. As already mentioned, this blogger is a huge fan of the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, and most of all the First Amendment.
He believes what someone once said, “When politicians fear the free press, democracy is safe. When the free press fears politicians, democracy is endangered.”
178. So he loves it when the free press, in this case, The New York Times, exposes the lies of powerful individuals.
179. He would think any good American would understand the importance of an unfettered free press – as, for example, when Fox News does stories about that gold brick crook, Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat.
180. Yet we know Donald is not a champion of the free press, quite the contrary. Just this month, he said ABC News should lose its broadcast license because he was still whining about how that channel “rigged” the debate with Kamala Harris. Which, incongruously, he also insisted he won.
181. Then he attacked the free press again, claiming CBS edited an interview with Vice President Harris.
CBS should also lose its license.
182. Nor should any of us overlook Trump’s non-stop attacks on the free press, generally, with the president repeatedly tweeting or saying, the press, “They are truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.”
183. That’s more Hitler talk, right there – and this blogger is not voting for Donald – and if you love the rule of law, you shouldn’t either.
We want Menendez to be caught, and jailed, if found guilty. We don’t want U.S. senators selling foreign influence in return for gold bricks.
And, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we don’t want presidents playing footsie with our sworn enemies in Russia.
183. And we’re still not done. In regards to Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, we know Paul Manafort met repeatedly with Russians, lied repeatedly, got nailed repeatedly for committing felonies, and…
…still got a pardon.
184. Later, Manafort got nailed separately, for $3.15 million for failing to pay taxes on money concealed in secret offshore bank accounts – which even to a faithful MAGA might sound suspicious.
185. Then you had the Russian lawyer, who attended the secret Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, later getting indicted on separate criminal obstruction of justice charges – but fleeing to Russia.
186. Not to mention Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s business partner, who also absconded to Russia, one step ahead of the cuffs. There’s still a reward offer of $250,000 for information leading to his arrest.
187. Nor should we overlook this salient fact: Trump is the first American president to ever feel the need to claim he absolutely had a right to pardon himself.
188. If you don’t understand how ridiculous that is, and dangerous, you are clearly too dense to try to vote.
The plot to steal the 2020 election for Donald.
189. If you still aren’t bothered, don’t forget that Bannon and other top Trump allies refused to testify about events leading up to January 6, 2021, attack on Washington. When a congressional panel sent Steve a subpoena, he refused to appear.
190. He fought it out for more than two years – because delay works best if you might be guilty, and you have enough loot to pay your lawyers – but Steve-o finally went to jail for four months.
191. Bannon’s attorneys eventually sued his lard ass after he failed to pay fees to the tune of $480,487.87.
192. Peter Navarro, Trump’s White House Economic Advisor, also refused to comply with a subpoena. He went to jail for five months.
193. General Michale T. “Send in the Tanks” Flynn did comply with a subpoena, in regard to the January 6 attack, and the investigation in Congress. He promptly took the Fifth to every question.
That included refusing to say whether or not he believed in “the peaceful transfer of power” – bedrock in any functioning democracy.
194. You couldn’t make this all up if you were filming a horror movie. In the Georgia election fraud case (which Trump lawyers have managed to stall in the courts), Jenna Ellis took the Fifth 308 times.
195. She was a piker compared to Ray Stallings Smith III, who worked hard to overturn voting results in that state. He hit the 400-mark while invoking the right not to incriminate his lawyer self.
196. Pleading the Fifth has been the “go to” choice of all Team Trump players, if forced to appear before grand juries – or petit juries – or investigative panels. Dr. John Eastman, the alleged architect of the plot to steal electoral votes in seven states, took the Fifth 146 times when questioned in Congress.
197. Eastman has since been disbarred in California – for lying about the election.
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| Eastman, left, and Giuliani, right fired up the January 6 crowd with lies. |
198. Giuliani took the Fifth, endlessly, when prodded by investigators and has since been disbarred in New York – for lying.
199. Rudy has also been disbarred in Washington D.C. – for – dare we say it: Lying.
200. The ordinary Trump fan will insist that all the judges in all these cases, and all the members of grand juries, and regular juries are Trump haters. Of course, Trump lovers believe anything. Case in point, the QAnon dopes who believed Donald was going to be “reinstated” on January 20, 2021, and he, not Biden, would be magically inaugurated.
That would have made it hard for Amanda Gorman to deliver her uplifting poem. But whatever!
LISTEN TO HER POEM.
201. We know that pathetic dream died hard. The delusional Mr. Mike Lindell now switched, and predicted Trump would take office on March 4, 2021, March 4 being the original date set by the U.S. Constitution, for presidents to be inaugurated.
That didn’t happen.
202. Nothing daunted – because Mike was and remains a true believer – he insisted the Orange Dumpling would still return. He said Trump would take office again on August 13.
2021. Nope, didn’t happen.
203. Okay, then on Thanksgiving.
204. Nope, nope, and nope, you poor dope.
205. Donald himself spent a good chunk of the Biden presidency saying Joe should be booted from the White House, and he, Donald, should be declared “the rightful winner.” If you love Trump more than Twinkies, we will remind you that there’s no provision in the Constitution for such a measure.
206. Eventually, Donald went over the rainbow, and said the Constitution could be “terminated,” if necessary, to ensure he was reseated in the Oval Office. Yes, Trump fans: TERMINATED.
207. If Joe Biden ever said that, or Kamala Harris, Laura Ingraham’s head would have exploded during her nightly hour of Fox News lies. There would be a mass die-off of MAGA men and women, from heart attacks.
Across this land, there would be a sound of self-identified “great Americans” loading their AR-15s.
As for Trump saying he could “terminate” all rules and regulations, including the Constitution? No problem.
208. How about Donald saying, if elected, he would be “a dictator on day one?” Also fine and dandy if you asked his red-capped supporters.
209. Worse yet, Donald suggested he would deploy the U.S. military against his own people if he regained took power. Sure, the dolts all nodded.
In an interview on Fox News, Donald Wannabee Dictator was asked about plans to secure the border. A fair question. But his mind turned to his enemies in this country. “I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within,” he replied. “We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics,” he continued. “And I think they’re the big – and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen.”
What could be handled? What can’t we let happen? Citizens voting against Trump or his anointed supporters in Congress? Americans protesting against anything a second-term Trump might try to do? Or those “enemies of the people,” the free press, pestering thin-skinned Donald with tough questions?
210. There’s the nub of our national dilemma – and the question is, do enough Americans clearly see it?
211. Even Sen. Ted Cruz, long
since neutered, had enough sense left to condemn the former president’s call to
terminate the founding document of U.S. government. Then Teddy lost his nerve
once more, and said Americans should just get over it, and “focus on what matters.”
I’m sorry, my MAGA friends. I’m
not getting over the guy who suggested undoing the work of the 55 Founding
Fathers.
A final matter of voting.
I could go on forever, but let’s end with a non-racist, non-criminals-working for Trump, not-terminating-the-Constitution kind of reason I would never vote for him – also not involving any of my supposed “hatred.”
Like Donald, I’m too old to be president; but I am not an ill-informed nitwit, as, I believe evidence proves him to be.
212. For example, there was the time he cluelessly said during a Fourth of July speech that George Washington captured the airports at Yorktown in 1781. I could only gasp at his feeble grasp of American history.
213. Even now he says he doesn’t believe George owned slaves – even though you can ask Siri, and she will show you a copy of our first president’s will – in which he orders the freeing of his 123 slaves.
214. And I’ll just throw this out there: Trump recently compared the jailed January 6 rioters, who took part in the attack on Congress, to Japanese Americans locked up after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
215. Which would make sense if you were a dork, and never read a book in your life – since there were 110,000 Japanese Americans interned in special camps, and exactly zero internees were there because they flew planes on December 7, and dropped bombs on the USS Arizona and other warships.
216. Also, tens of thousands of those prisoners were children.
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The dangerous "other." Japanese American children, 1942. |
217. In fact, let’s return to the whole concept of dangerous dehumanization, and the power of fear and hate to justify in the weakest minds the mistreatment of any “others” they don’t like. As a teacher, I would always quote Gov. Chase Clark of Idaho, who said in 1942, he didn’t want any of the internees brought into his state. “The Japs live like rats, breed like rats and act like rats,” he said.
I then liked to tell the story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-Japanese American unit, made up of men who wanted to show their true loyalties, a unit which went on to become one of the most decorated outfits of World War II.
It’s also fun to note – since we know Trumps always manage to dodge service – that some of the men were right out of their prison camps!
Which is hard to imagine.
Finally, one last explanation why I can’t cotton Donald. After four years in office, and four more to figure it out, he still has a kindergartner’s grasp regarding the threat of climate change. When asked during this past summer’s debate with Mr. Biden, what he would do to address the looming problem, he replied, “I want absolutely immaculate clean water and absolutely clean air.”
218. Only a fool or an illiterate would think that the cleanliness of air or water had anything to do with rising global temperatures. No one ever went outside on a broiling summer day, and said, “Man it’s 102°. The air must be dirty!”
219. Then again, he’s the same fool who claimed that windmill noise caused cancer.
220. NASA scientists, of course, are not fools or nitwits. They have warned that the Earth is warming, and humankind is responsible.
Evidence, they say, “is unequivocal.”
221. Scientists have also long known that warmer ocean waters, as a result of climate change, would supercharge hurricanes, sort of like when you “hit the accelerator” on a car. Hurricanes are currently rated categories 1-5. Hurricane Helene, cautions one expert, may require forecasters to consider adding a “Category 6,” to describe ever increasing, and ever more devastating wind velocities.
222. Scientists have also explained how warmer air can carry more moisture, which means when it does rain, we are going to experience more torrential downpours. That’s what happened with massive flooding in North Carolina, in the aftermath of Helene.
223. The experts also warn that the last eleven years – matching the eleven years my granddaughter has enjoyed on this planet – have been the hottest in recorded history. Worse, they fear that these past eleven may be the coolest our children and grandchildren will ever experience again.
LISTEN TO A STORY ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA.
224. And if you’d like a cherry on top of your ice cream sundae, which of course has melted, Project 2025, the plan for a second Trump term – a plan he now claims he knows nothing about – intends to force all federal agencies to scrub mention of climate change and its dangers.
So it’s not going to be hatred which drives my vote. It’s not “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” I don’t suffer from mental illness, either, as one stupid meme implies. It’s going to be love of other humans, even those different from me in race, creed, color or gender identification, that wins my vote.
It’s going to be love of the Constitution.
It’s going to come down to what I believe are the interests of all future generations. I’m going to be dead before I have to worry about climate change catastrophe. My descendants won’t be so lucky.
I have long found Trump’s words and actions abhorrent, and if you have any doubt, I hope you will join me in voting for someone else.
Write in your own name, or some cartoon character, if you must.
As of
October 31, chances are at least 50-50, Trump can win.
