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In reply to the discussion: The Final Straw [View all]malthaussen
(17,193 posts)... I think a lot of people thought, after the election results were in, that it would be terrible, but couldn't imagine that there would be no break in the unrelenting, overt embarrassment and outrage by the current usurper of the White House. There have not been two consecutive days since his inauguration that he has not dug a deeper hole, just in his tweets. You're very accustomed to chronic pain, and this is similar: tiresome in the extreme.
Meanwhile, Congress has pretty well established that it is treasonous itself, and that the rape of the country and the destruction of the Federal government are their only concerns. Their actions speak far more eloquently than any of the drool that comes out of their own shitholes.
One ray of light might be seen in the interesting factoid I saw on FB earlier today: 31 GOP incumbents in Congress, far more than ever in the country's history, will not be standing for re-election when their terms are up in November. Whatever the causes of this mass recusal, it could indicate an opportunity to restore some kind of balance to the Federal government, if the Democratic party is capable of seizing it. (An eventuality about which I won't offer any predictions)
Except in the extreme case of rage-starting thermonuclear war (and I would like to say, that of all the jobs in the USA today, the one I would least like to hold is the command of STRATCOM), Mr Trump's ranting and raving are not so important as the conspiracy of the GOP to destroy the country they were elected to serve. The power of a President is limited, but when he serves as a rubber-stamp for the forces of corruption, his ability to put the seal on chaos is multiplied. That's on the domestic side, of course: as for foreign relations, fuggedaboudit, he has already trashed this country's rep with other nations for years to come.
One need not have been naive or even unrealistically optimistic to have hoped that the country could keep its head down, weather the storm, and regain its sanity before being burned to the ground. Resigning oneself to allowing Mr Trump to do his worst is, ultimately, just an indication of lack of a sufficiently apocalyptic imagination to anticipate just how bad that worst could be (and there's more to come, ya know). But hey, in any reasonable world, an imagination that fecund would have been deemed insanity, so it's hardly blameworthy if you couldn't get there before now.
-- Mal