The events that have taken place over the past two months have driven a wedge through the mantle of the country’s facade, exposing a wound large enough for the bubbling magma from the core of our country’s psyche to overflow and scorch everything with which it comes in contact. Emotional responses have been swift, and in turn developed subsequent emotions, which developed subsequent emotions, which developed subsequent emotions, which developed subsequent emotions…an M.C Escher of rage and sadness and glee and conceit all enmeshed in fluid synchronicity. It’d be beautiful if it weren’t so ugly.
Dizzying is its effect. The speed and volume with which information and emotion simultaneously bombard with all it’s gut-wrenching, hand-wringing gloating and griping has a significant effect in the way it is all processed. Significant in that one just gives up. I did. It was all too much for me to digest. There was too much surface and corresponding noise, that all attempts to wade through any segment was met with confusion and apathy. I needed to take a step back, process this very new landscape of media and politics, and devise a new approach to informing myself.
It’s easy to want to limit your exposure to the disarray. Why put on the hazmat suit when it’s easier to avoid the contamination altogether? It makes the denial of our current state so much easier excuse. Claim #NotMyPresident and depart the field. And outright denial is where a lot of people were immediately afterward. And it was outright denial that was incorrectly associated with the protestors the day after the inauguration as the vocal right exclaimed, “If you’re an American, he’s you’re president! You lost! Get over it!”
And they are correct in that statement. And that is why it’s time to jump straight forward to acceptance and acknowledge that Donald J. Trump is not #NotMyPresident. He is our president. He may not stand for anything you believe in. He may be the complete opposite of what a model human being should be. He may be the most foul, self-centered, blindly self-important piece of shit that has ever breathed American air, but he’s still the legally elected leader of the United States of America. So let’s wholly welcome Mr. Trump for everything that he truly and honestly is— #MyPresident.
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#MyPresident is the globally recognized caricature of American greed and conspicuous consumption. No other American is as effortlessly associated with the shallowness of their auto-defined self worth and outright materialism than the current president of the United States of America.
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#MyPresident is a coward. #MyPresident outwardly mimicked the physical impairments of a disabled person, then when confronted on such mockery, backed down with gutlessness because he doesn’t have the sack to admit it and say, “Yeah, I was making fun of him. He talked shit about me, so I exaggerated his physical deficiency to comparatively display myself as a more able and competent individual.” Instead he outwardly denied it like the fucking coward he is because he’s incapable of standing behind his actions. In some locker rooms, that would make him a pussy. Probably not acceptable, but he talks the talk
Also, #MyPresident dodged the draft 5 times (once for “bone spurs”) and has the cowardly nerve to boast his peak physical condition.
Because he is a coward.
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Speaking of cowards, let’s talk about the patriotism of #MyPresident. Whether you agree or not, paying taxes is one of the most patriotic things a citizen can take part in. It’s a valid principle of government. To prove it, here’s a quick civics lesson: When one pays taxes, they are doing so because they entrust their government to use those taxes to provide them with the necessary security from state and economic downfall, and the opportunity to attain individual success and security. Therefore, any and all success one may attain is not a product of their own efforts, but a byproduct of the system/government that afforded them the opportunity to do so. Thus, the more one attains, the higher the obligation to the government that provided them the means for their successes. And if they don’t trust their government to secure them the means to do so, they’re free to GTFO.
One would think that someone worth “billions” who claims to love their country so much would be more than willing to give their fair share to the country that provided them the economic landscape to become so successful.
And not say, I don’t know, short themselves almost a billion (with a “B”) dollars through a scrupulous and calculated maneuver in an effort to avoid paying federal taxes for almost 20 years. Here’s a fun fact: For every soldier that came back from Iraq and Afghanistan that was physically or mentally maimed, #MyPresident contributed $0 dollars of his self-purported vast wealth to their well-being. That’s $0 contributed by #MyPresident to the prostheses of those who lost limbs. That’s $0 contributed by #MyPresident to the therapy for those struggling with the post-war demons that terrorize the psyche of too many soldiers. That’s $0 contributed by #MyPresident to the back-logged bureaucracy of the VA that helped slow it down to such a halt, it just became easier for some of those veterans to put a 9mm in their mouth than to wait for the treatment they needed. But, in the words of #MyPresident, “I have a write-off. A lot of it is depreciation, which is a wonderful charge…I love depreciation.”
If you love your freedom, #PayYourFuckingTaxes.
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#MyPresident is better at telling people he’s a great businessman than he is at being an actual businessman.
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#MyPresident lies. Blatantly and regularly.
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#MyPresident is petty and petulant
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#MyPresident is routinely incapable of speaking in complete sentences.
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#MyPresident has direct social media affiliations with white supremacists. And makes very little effort to publicly distance himself from the same group that almost wholeheartedly embraces his presidency.
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#MyPresident willfully ignores the solemn importance of NATO and it’s significance in maintaining stability in Europe. As a businessman, #MyPresident should easily understand this, but refuses to openly acknowledge the obvious financial benefits for the Western world when Europe remains stable. Probably because #MyPresident looks to gain more from a Russian-influenced destabilization of Eastern Europe.
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The list has been written so many times, writing it again really doesn’t make a difference. But these are not polarizing issues. The points above are not divisively political. These are issues a very strong majority of voting Americans should all be able to agree upon. So as the hyper patriotic encourage those offended to set aside their differences and accept Donald Trump as their president, it’s important to never forget who our president has always been, who he has always cared about, and use his much documented past as a well-worn template for who he will be. A man doesn’t live a life of 70 years as selfish, and shallow, and low-cultured, and vulgar, and vainglorious, and thankless as our current president, and suddenly become the type of American the office of our presidency deserves and demands.
Stammering Fog People 