Tag: Trump

There is NO Silver Lining

The United States of America comes to an end on Friday. It might take a few years for the process of destruction to complete, but as of Friday our nation is no more.

There is no upside to this. There’s no silver lining. I don’t care which side of the ideological aisle you live on, there is nothing good about this. We’re done.

Having said that, if there was a silver lining, it would be Alec Baldwin’s appearances on Saturday Night Live. He had better clear his schedule for the next four years and make sure he can appear each and every week without exception. Here’s a link to last night’s cold open.

The President Elect Has Never Read the Constitution

I’m trying to calm my ass down, really. I’m trying to focus on other things and not be as 24/7 furious as I was in the months leading up to, and the days following, the election. It’s not working though.

He actually said that American citizens who carry out an act that the supreme court has ruled is protected by the constitution should have their citizenship stripped away from them. He actually said that. The president elect of the United States of America has clearly never read the constitution of the United States of America. It’s just too absurd to even fathom.

I guess the reason he was so upset by that Gold Star father who offered to loan him a copy was because he literally had never read it. Is it even a stretch at this point to imagine that he can’t read? I mean, listen to the things he’s said. Look at the people he’s appointing to his staff. Is there anything left that’s out of the realm of possibility at this point?

I really thought that the firing squads wouldn’t happen until after he was defeated in the 2020 election and refused to step down. The level of stupidity I see now makes me think that he probably won’t wait that long. Damn the constitution, full fascism ahead. Right Donald?

Where Do We Go?

Every four years we like to tell the same joke.  If candidate X becomes president we are moving out of the country.  We have never said it seriously before, but if Trump should magically find himself on top next November…

Toronto is both beautiful and close, but it will most likely be over run by US refugees trying to flee the fascist regime of the Donald.  London is my top choice in Europe, but there are other attractive English speaking destinations too.  What about a quiet rural country village in Ireland or Wales.  Think about it, if we don’t have a lot of neighbors then we won’t have to be ripped on as often for being from a country that was idiotic enough to elect Trump to an office.  That’s a pretty big plus for me.

Trump Fans

I never had any interest in using any of the wordpress.com themes that don’t show the full text on the main page.  I thought they were stupid.  Un-Bloggerish, if you will.  Then I used one for Lizardfish because the background image looked awesome.  Now I’m softening.  I put this theme on last week and so far I haven’t started hating it yet.

It has changed something for me though.  Now I want every post to have an image.  There’s a function called a featured image, which is used here, but I have to add the image to my wordpress.com storage.  That’s going to get old quick.

Anyway, I wasn’t going to write about themes…

I saw something on Facebook today that made me laugh.  Someone shared a canned search that finds all of your Facebook friends who are fans of Donald Trump’s official Facebook page.  It’s a nice way to blanket stereotype people as Trump-esque neo-fascists.  In much the same way as the Donald, in the most blatantly un-American move I’ve personally ever seen a candidate make, has blanket stereotyped all Muslims as terrorists.  Gee… my buddy’s five year old son doesn’t seem like a terrorist, but if the Donald says so it must be true!

The search returned three people.  One of them is already muted due to insufferably offensive conservatism.  The other two have given me no reason to take action as of yet.  It’s possible that they liked the page before the campaign.  I mean maybe they are just fans of his old TV show. Note:  That is an example of not painting all people who have a thing in common with the same stereotypical brush.  That’s how it works.  Get it? I so disapprove of fascists, but reading a fascists Facebook page does not make you a fascist.

So what’s the relevance of the featured image at the top of the page?  It’s a picture of Trump Tower in New York.  At least I think it is, it’s an old picture.