@dveightinurface I read this article yesterday that basically argues the same thing, that this is actually a coup by corporations. Trump is populist enough and malleable enough to be the perfect puppet. He isn't writing any of these executive orders, they're all coming from Bannon and his corporate sponsors. I tend to agree with the article that it's a move out of desperation, a reaction to the social movements that are threatening their stronghold. Anyway: http://billmoyers.com/story...
I also agree that he's functionally illiterate, and very likely well down the road of dementia.
It blows my mind that we have to call this insane fascist fucker's vandalism out to fellow Americans who have forgotten what anything in our great nation means beyond their own honest needs and ill-informed biases.
I had a pretty zen week - just counting the lunatic orders being stacked up by presidential fiat to strip away freedoms from government agencies, immigrants, scientists and others - and figuring "Stupid bastard is digging his own grave. His own party knows he'll take them down with him if they give him much more rope, so it's only a matter of time."
But today - with the Exclusion of Helpless Syrian Refugees and Muslim Travelers Except from Countries of Origin for 9/11 Terrorists that Happen to Be Our Oil Partners Act ...
Oh no, wait, it was another executive order, as if all of us are just his little minions waiting to be Fired - I fucking lost it, and I am madder now than I have ever been at *anyone* in the government, including Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Gingrich and Mitch Fucking McConnell.
Donald Trump - in addition to being a racist, sexist, self-aggrandizing, thin-skinned asshole who couldn't run a taco truck into the ground if he had a subway-tunnel boring machine - is singlehandedly destroying the foundation of global trust and respect for the U.S. that has taken - even in the face of unjust wars like Vietnam and Iraq - more than 100 years, quintillions of dollars, and untold millions of American lives lost in righteous wars, to build.
And he's doing it like a child, smearing shit all over the walls because he figures if nobody stops him, it must be his right.
I will continue to resist and help anyone else who's resisting for as long as it takes to knock that vandal off his perch, and as long as it takes to help my countrymen see that the other geniuses they allowed to get into power don't have anyone's best interest but the banks and oil companies at heart, because, like you, I have BETTER THINGS TO DO.
GodDAMN it! He's got me ranting in run-on sentences now. I HATE RUN-ON SENTENCES.
Clearly I need to go have a drink or five and calm down.
Fucker.