“This White House can be depended
upon only to stir the shit, no matter how much it stinks”.
From
“The Quotations of Chairman Joe”
Keith
Olbermann, in a recent pronouncement in a podcast for “Gentleman’s Quarterly” that he calls “The Resistance”, described Donald J. tRUMP as “Scum”. Indeed, he is.
The
elevation of scum to the highest corridors of power, indeed, into the very
inner sanctuary of the oval office, did not happen overnight. We did not happen upon these crossroads by
accident.
It is
now a decade since I first began writing, albeit furtively and sporadically
(for life makes many demands upon the leisure time of the working man), these
columns. I began this journal with the
opening headline, a parody of Earnest Hemingway, entitled “The Scum Also
Rises”. Indeed, unfortunately, it does.
So,
began my chronicle of the decline and fall of the American Empire. I have
attempted in recent columns to demonstrate that the mendacity that is the
conservative movement has, after more than half a century, metastasized into a
full-blown and virulent cancer now taking the form of our very own Caesar
Disgustus.
Disgustus
is beyond being a mere national embarrassment; he is beyond being a mere
national humiliation. He is, a national shame, a national disgrace.
As
pointed out by Olbermann and many, many, others, the month of August reached a
new low in this administration’s determined effort to plumb the depths of
political depravity. August, a month
given to vacationing in which Congress out of session and the country otherwise
distracted, is normally a slow news month.
The networks find themselves giving increasing air time to ‘fluff’ news
stories about vacation spots and celebrities.
The most serious stories tend to revolve around the hurricane season and
the weather. Not this year.
To
prevent the administration from moving the Keebler Elf –one Jefferson Beauregard
Sessions—from the Justice Department to Homeland Security and appointing a new
Attorney General, the Senate, in a rare exercise of wisdom, remained
technically in session. But no matter,
for this White House can be depended upon to stir the shit, no matter how much
it stinks.
As so,
we find Disgustus coming to the aid and comfort of Neo-Nazis, crypto-fascists
and White Nationalists contending with a straight face that there were ‘good
people in that crowd’ at Charlottesville, Virginia, a mob chanting “the Jews
will not replace us” and the Nazi slogan “Blood and Soil”. We found him pardoning Joe Arpaio, the
Sheriff of Phoenix who in his own words ran concentration camps holding illegal
immigrants in which abuse, shame and torture were routine. Found guilty of violating two court orders to
cease and desist, Disgustus, during national emergency, was nevertheless found
taking time to the real agenda at hand, which is to placate and appease his
knuckle-dragging bigoted political base of support by granting a full and
complete pardon. Here Disgustus
demonstrated not only his support of fascist police-state tactics, his
not-so-latent bigotry, but his complete contempt for the rule of law.
But,
alas, our Disgustus is easily distracted. As hurricane Harvey did its worst
along the Gulf Coast, Disgustus was attending to more urgent matters. Dumping in some places over 50 inches of
rain, producing in the process the greatest rainfall ever recorded on the North
American continent and putting the country’s fourth largest city (Houston)
under water, Disgustus would nevertheless be found tweeting about a newly
released book by the now former sheriff of Milwaukee Wisconsin (another
troglodyte), and heading to the great state of Missouri to tout the real agenda
of this administration—you guessed it—tax cuts for the already rich, openly
campaigning against Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in the process. When
Disgustus could finally find within himself the call to action he could not
find within himself the need to meet a single flood victim nor stand beneath a
single rain shower. Instead he was found
boasting of the federal government’s response, praising the states’ Rescumlican
governor, expressing awe about the strength of the storm but finding no words
of comfort and solace for those where were battered by it.
This man
is so myopic, so self-absorbed, so emotionally crippled, so ego-centric and
self-serving that he cannot find within himself the words or compassion that
this country identifies as the mark of a true president. Donald J. tRUMP is worthless in a national
emergency.
And now
we have hurricane Irma, a category 5 monster bearing down on the leeward
Islands and heading for Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and
then, perhaps the Southeast United States.
As the country braces for another hit, Clarabelle the Clown trains his
seltzer bottle upon the so-called “Dreamers”, young adults brought here
illegally by their parents; here by no fault of their own, brought here at an
average age of six years of age and now living and trying to function in the
only country they’ve ever known.
Disgustus
says he wants a solution to the immigration problem and about that he is quite
right. This issue has been on the back
burner for far too long and gridlock has prevented action for nearly two
decades. But instead of moving to deport
the parents who brought them he, like the playground coward that his is, moves
against the children. Instead of working
toward comprehensive reform that will not tear apart families and spread fear
and hardship upon the second largest ethnic group in the country, Disgustus,
like a true coward, wages war on the youngest and most vulnerable among them.
There is
a pattern here: defense of bigots and
white nationalists, pardoning a bigoted sheriff in the middle of a hurricane,
pimping for another bigoted sheriff’s book while the storm rages, working to
end the Obama-era “DACA” program and threatening to deport over 800,000 duly
vetted and registered undocumented young people—many currently serving in our
military—speaking before a gathering of police officers and giving them
permission to return to brutal tactics, empowering—through Arpiao’s Pardon,
police profiling and other tactics—discriminatory practices reminiscent of Jim
Crow and what emerges is a profile of the most racially bigoted man to occupy
the oval office since at least Woodrow Wilson.
Donald
J. tRUMP is a hateful bigot and a swine.
It is no mere coincidence that his first encounter with government—a
lawsuit involving racial discrimination at Trump properties—has forever shaped
the way he sees government and governance.
When he calls America “Back” to its greatness what he is calling for is
a return to Jim Crow. He has surrounded
himself with people like the Mercer’s who long to see the civil rights laws
repealed. And now we find him, in the
teeth of every form of hurricane, political and otherwise, holding steadfast to
the mast of White Supremacy in his campaign to ‘Make America White Again”, by
making America hate again.
Impeach and Imprison.
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