I hope everyone had a nice – and safe! – Christmas Holiday. I took a brief break from posting anything to just enjoy some time with my daughter and her mom who are currently staying with me. However, it’s back to the keyboard.
Unless someone has been living under a rock for the last four years or ignoring (or rationalizing) what has been going on there is no way that Trump’s current actions can come as a surprise. This was 100 percent predictable. There should be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that Trump cares only about Trump and whatever collateral damage he causes to the country, ordinary citizens, his Republican ‘allies’, or anyone else on his way out the door is just par for the course. And to put it bluntly, Trump just doesn’t give a shit!
There have already been 335,000 deaths in this country attributed to the COVID pandemic and models are predicting that number will continue to increase significantly. At the current rate, one American is dying every 10 minutes from COVID. You would think that a crisis of this magnitude would be enough to get the President’s attention. Trump doesn’t give a shit!
The President is refusing to sign the COVID relief bill which is part of the budget bill that was negotiated by his own administration. In addition, he is refusing to sign the Defense Authorization Bill. The consequences of these two childish actions will have significant real-life impacts on millions of Americans. Unemployment benefits will end. Stimulus checks will not go out. Protections against evictions will end. Military personnel will not get well-deserved pay raises. Small businesses won’t get the help they desperately need to try to stay afloat. And states will not get much needed financial aid to help with the COVID fight and vaccine distribution. Millions of Americans are paying the price for Trump’s temper tantrum. Trump doesn’t give a shit!
Trump’s refusal to sign the budget bill could effectively shut down the government starting tomorrow. Trump doesn’t give a shit!
Trump is lining up Republican House and Senate members to mount a challenge to the Electoral College vote ratification in Congress on January 6th. Since the House is controlled by the Democrats and Mike Pence, the President Pro Tem of the Senate, does not have the unilateral authority to override the results, this effort is doomed to failure. However, it will likely lead to a political circus the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times. The entire world will be watching this embarrassing spectacle which will surely further tarnish America’s reputation around the world. Trump doesn’t give a shit!
In addition to the havoc that he is creating by refusing to sign these pieces of legislation, he is turning the Office of the President into an arcade where corrupt cronies of the President can go to cash in their ‘loyalty chips’ for things like Presidential pardons. This is a huge abuse of the sweeping Presidential pardon power and undermines the integrity of the country and the office. Trump doesn’t give a shit!
The list of people that Trump has thrown under the bus when they no longer served his purpose or said or did something, he didn’t like is a long, long list. The ‘bus club’ started in the very beginning of his administration with Jeff Sessions, his former Attorney General, and is now being joined by Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, and Senate Whip, John Thune. Trump’s reputation for using, abusing and discarding people is legendary. Trump doesn’t give a shit!
The behavior that we are witnessing now should come as no surprise to anyone. It shouldn’t shock anyone. This is the exact same behavior that we have been witnessing for the last four years and that has been coddled and allowed to flourish under a Republican Party that has failed to hold the President to account for anything. Trump was Trump in the beginning. But by failing to hold him accountable, the Republican Congressional leadership has allowed ‘Franken-Trump’ to flourish. ‘Franken-Trump’ has now escaped and is wreaking havoc on the country and its citizens. McConnell and his Republican cronies are now faced with the dilemma of trying to control the monster they created.
At the end of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, the Creature states that his crimes have made him more miserable than his creator, Victor Frankenstein, ever was. The Creature is last seen drifting away on an ice raft never to be seen again. Unfortunately, ‘Franken-Trump’ the monster created by the Republican Party, is not remorseful at all for all of the chaos he has brought, the crimes he’s committed, the people he’s hurt, and the damage done to this country. Franken-Trump just doesn’t give a shit!
How can anyone admire and praise someone who constantly displays anger and hate in his words, expressions, and actions? As bad as Trump is, and he is probably the worst President we’ve ever had, I have lost total respect for Trump supporters. I have tried for four years to try to understand the reason they feel the way they do. I have finally come to the conclusion that there are many people in this country that “need” to hate someone to get satisfaction. Trump has been able to release this hatred since Adolph Hitler towards the Jews. I believed everyone had learn that lesson of history but it seems the human race will never rid themselves for their desire to hate. It is a definite flaw in the human race.