I’m back, and in a different context. I’ll explain later. Right now I’m compelled to vent, rant and blow smoke about the moron that just got booted out of the “Highest Office In The Land”, and how this infantile buffoon is handling the ass-whooping he so richly deserved, Donald J. Trump.
As of this writing he’s done… nothing. Yes, he’s filed lawsuits contesting the results. But the actual work is being handled by his lackeys and lickspittles. I envision them getting orders and giving progress reports outside a White House bathroom, hissing against the jamb and slipping briefs under the door.
He’s also started hosing out the Pentagon, sacking folks who’ve done nothing but serve the country and replacing them with more lackeys and lickspittles. I hope it’s not because he’ll be relying them later for the coup.
The only public appearance he’s made was to a Veteran’s Day Memorial, and during the entire occasion he kept his mouth shut. Most would find that refreshing but, in lieu of his current employment situation, I believe it’s cause for concern. His appearance at this event is the only thing he’s done that can be considered Presidential. After it was concluded, I imagine he was whisked back to the White House, back to his bathroom and his Twitter account.
Other than that? Nothing. His “acceptance” rant doesn’t count, because the election wasn’t over– to my horror I actually thought he was going to win at that time. Since then it’s been a lackey or a lickspittle that’s fouled the airwaves. Even Fox News cuts ’em off. Nothing, other than his tweets, which now come with a free warning.
An inert Trump is nothing new. As I’ve been made to understand by the Fake News Mainstream Media, the president’s daily intelligence report is not mandatory daily reading for Mr. Trump. This has been standard practice since the Donald robbed Hillary of her birthright. It’s presented to him and, as I’ve heard, he delegates it without a peek. If it contained something that demanded his interest, he’d give it some attention. A staff member reported a couple of days ago that Trump hasn’t bothered with it at all since the first week of October.
When it comes to legislation, it appeared to be primarily undoing everything done by the previous administration. He did give the middle class a tax break in which we found out we traded mortgage interest and student loan interest to “double” our personal deduction, which expires in 2025. You won’t be getting your mortgage and student loan deductions back, though. Sorry. Wall Street got a break, too, and didn’t have to give up a thing. It lasts for eternity and one day. He promised to replace “Obamacare” as well, and replace it with a plan that’s so good he’s too excited about it to give us a little peek.
His foreign relations didn’t take much time or effort on his part, either. He got every friend we had in the world pissed off in a little less than a year, learned how to keep a straight face no matter how close he stood to Putin, and allowed himself to get punked on numerous occasions by a third generation despot.
When COVID arrived, he handled the best way he knew how. He ignored it. He supported this action by ignoring the advice and direction of people who understand such things as well. Even getting it didn’t inject him with any humility. He got about a quarter millions dollars worth of meds so he could tell us, “It’s no big deal. You get it, and get over it.” Who will ever forget that shot of him, standing on the balcony and peeling that mask off. Mussolini would have been proud.
In spite of all this fine work, he lost. So now he leaves the grunt work to his lackey’s and lickspittles. He ignores the contract he made with “the People” and lets the work of running the country go untended. He purges the Pentagon, essentially via Twitter, and sulks. “Thank God he’s gone!” you might expect the nation to cry out.
Not so fast.
You’d think such an unpleasant fellow would have been crushed by a landslide. Not so. He only lost the popular vote by about five million. Seems like a lot– well, it is— but like all things in life, it’s relative. You don’t need the entire country to adore you to hold on to power, it only takes about half of them.
So, while he sulks and expresses his rage with a telephone keyboard, directs his lackeys and lickspittles to obfuscate and hinder to the best of their abilities, there are a LOT of folks out there insisting “this thing ain’t over.”
Stand down, but stand by.