80 (but by no means ALL) reasons to oust 45
This past Friday (October 16th) I took PTO from work and Ronald and I used it to early vote. It was mind blowing to see the line at the polling location closest to us, on the fourth day of early voting, that was ranking online as the shortest wait according to the real time trackers. It would be easy to imagine that the line looked like this because of the spacing required in a pandemic, but that is hardly the full story. The truth is that we’re watching a historic groundswell of voter turnout across the country already. Historically, high voter turnout means democrats get elected. (Even Republicans fully acknowledge that their only path to power is through voter suppression and low voter turnout, see #36 below.) In other words, everyone knows that the majority of American voters are further left of center than the two party system and a large portion of the people are showing up already. And, as predicted, they’re not showing up for Republicans.
This is encouraging, of course. But it also means NOTHING yet.
I was far too delusional and far too optimistic in 2016 and I got burned far too badly to act like we’ve got this thing locked up. The failures and flaws in the US’s “democracy” are too well codified…clearly it doesn’t matter if a “majority” of people vote for Joe Biden, as long as we’re being strangled by the undemocratic, antiquated, dangerous flaming garbage piled called the Electoral College, which posits that one vote in Wyoming should be nearly 400% more powerful than one in California.
So given this equity issue baked into the system, we really need a “blue wave” unlike any before….it needs to drown and crush the facism that is rampant and unchecked in the White House in a way that presents a new level of sobering reality for Republicans and shows that there is no dispute who won. We need to break their stolen and cheated power so deeply and fully that they’re left with nothing but figuring out how to change and improve. And in the process and immediately following, we need to also end up pushing the Democratic party further left that it finally crosses over from “center right” on the world wide spectrum. (It’s fully nonsensical to act like thinking that all citizens deserve healthcare, food, shelter, and a chance to live well is a “radical left” mentality, but here we are.)
All that aside, truth is that the change that I want to make to the US political spectrum so that it actually starts taking care of its people is not possible without the IMMEDIATE defeat of 45’s second term, first.
In that spirit, I have been reblogging concerns and issues with our current so-called Presidential Administration for many years on socials. Here is my meager attempt to source and chronicle some these issues and reasons (but by no means all) why any person with half a conscious and a brain should vote against 45* (and any other Republican, too, full stop.)
Let me heartily clarify first: I am not so foolish as to think that I am going to change anyone’s mind here who likes 45, or even thinks lukewarm things about him. Instead, it is my hope to mobilize the folks who hate him as much as I do and/or are so disenchanted with voting in the US that they’re thinking about staying home and/or voting for a third party candidate (which, sorry, is truly flushing your vote away in how the structures are designed. Again, we can and should address that later. But we can do NOTHING about the flaws of the first past the poll system right now.)
ANYWAY…here are 80 reasons. These are starting with more recent news and working backward through time (with a little hopping around as things occur to me too.)
At the time of writing this, 45 and the Senate are ramrodding a fundie judge appointee through in the 11th hour, just because they can, and despite the extreme hypocrisy of it all, from when Obama’s appointment of Merrick Garland was blocked. Their chosen nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, represents all of the worst of current Republican leadership and 45’s alliance with the radical Christian right (just like Voldem….I MEAN Mike Pence before her). 45 has to depend on these fundies, despite not being at all “Christian” in any action, policy, or view, himself and their support is a critical part of his base. (But let me emphasize, he worships money and himself, not Jesus, y’all). As a judicial appointee, Amy “life begins at the moment a mommy wishes for a baby” Coney Barrett would solidify a 6 out of 9 majority of members of the Federalist Society on the bench, a phrase which should send a chill down the spine of anyone who loves the constitution and human rights. She is a threat to reproductive justice, she is openly using terms that are anti LGBT dog whistles, and her judicial record is absolutely dripping with the anti-black racism we have come to expect from anyone associated with 45. “Here's a racial discrimination case that [Amy Coney] Barrett did decide, where she wrote that being called the n-word at work by your supervisor does not constitute a hostile or abusive work environment.” The case was from 2019, by the way. (Oct 2020)
45 and his friends are STILL trying to do everything they can to destroy Obamacare, in the process, too. When confirmed, which WILL take place soon, Amy Coney Barrett and SCOTUS are likely entirely to overturn the Affordable Care Act shortly after the election which, while deeply flawed, has presented SO MANY Americans with better situations than before (including my personal anecdotes.) If you’ve enjoyed such protections, such as not being declined for coverage due to pre-existing conditions, then you will not be well served by this……………..to say the very least. (Oct 2020) Plus, there’s the fact that he is stacking the court with people who he believes will rule that he is the winner of the election, if there is any doubt about the outcome. Let me restate: WE CANNOT LET ANY DOUBT BE PRESENT IN THE ELECTON RESULTS.
Then there’s the pandemic. Just ALL of COVID-19 in the US. And of course, for 45’s own personal role, after mocking, diminishing, not giving a fuck about, and being personally responsible for SO MANY US DEATHS, 45, got COVID, spread it around a bunch, and then got the best of US healthcare for his own treatment, all while not paying any taxes toward that system, and, as I mentioned above, all while trying to take away the ACA, and…and this is a really important and: continuing to deny American families in need more pandemic relief funding and totally deprioritizing that for MONTHS now. (Oct 2020)
We can’t just leave COVID to one point because his handling of it has been that bad. No really, this dude has contributed directly to countless COVID cases because he just can’t stop holding his vanity pep rallies in pandemic. (Oct 2020)
Paying for health care for poor Americans? Impossible! Paying income taxes? Never! Passing coronavirus relief funding for poor families starving and becoming unhoused? Laughable! But last I checked, you and I have paid $141M for the supreme leader wannabe to golf. (Oct 2020)
Fair and free elections? He questions them at every turn in an effort to suppress votes and seed chaos and misinformation as he is wont to do…but the real villain who is making our elections unfree and unfair is him all along. As one example, Trump cronie Greg “Just Drive Around” Abbott tried to pull some SUPER shady voter suppression shit here in Texas, fearing that things might not go his way if he didn’t try this. (Courts struck down his efforts, thank goodness.) (Oct 2020)
Hey AMERIKUH!!!!! crowd…let’s not forget that 45 blatantly hates veterans. He made some rude comments about them recently (Oct 2020), but I would be remiss if I didn’t specifically note how this is normal for him. In 2017 he told a pregnant military widow that her husband “knew what he signed up for” back then. All this from a proud draft dodger.
Let’s take a brief look over at the Republican controlled Senate who has been skipping along in lock step with the supreme leader wannabe. Trump’s chief slime ball in charge of the Senate, Moscow Mitch, refused to participate in a debate moderated by a woman. No really, in the year of our lord 2020, that’s the kind of super American view of equality that Moscow Mitch has been bringing to the table. (Sept 2020)
So now that we’re about two weeks into the past chronologically and already nearly 10 really solid points in, let’s not forget that so-called debate. During Trump’s disastrous debate performance (in which he was actively spreading COVID at the time) he declined to denounce White Supremacy and instead called a known White Supremacist group into waiting for violence. As mentioned, 45 at this point seems proudly boastful of his looooooooooooong track record of venomous racism and general bigotry. (Sept 2020)
Dude is a billionaire and doesn’t and hasn’t paid taxes. Here’s just a cluster of sub-facts under that umbrella: “Trump paid $750 in taxes & spent $141,000,000 of our tax dollars on golfing.” “2016 taxes: Trump paid $750.00 Undocumented workers paid $27,000,000,000.00” and the whole presidency, 45 has made money hand over fist off of government corruption. (Sept 2020)
For some reason people keep asking him about this as if it’s remotely acceptable discourse, but because they do, we know full well that 45 has no plans for a peaceful transfer of power, which is not only unprecedented, but also simply not up for debate, and is horrifying. Still, we can’t let him bully and threaten us into not standing up against him at the ballot box. (Sept 2020)
Have I mentioned his racism enough yet? (HA, the evidence will just keep coming.) Like how he’s waging a war on federal diversity programs and he tried to sign an executive order to bury and deny the US’s 400 year history of slavery. (Sept 2020)
THEN he even threatened an executive order to codify his fascist dictatorial power. (Sept 2020)
And just to underscore how no one is safe from this raging bigot’s hatred, he’s attempting to totally kill disability and retirement benefits through SSI. (Sept 2020)
Let’s take a moment to reflect with a retrospective look across many years, because it bears mentioning that Republicans, as a whole, are so ridiculously corrupt, it’s staggering that we don’t talk about it more. Trump is one part of that and perhaps the most visible and blatant, but he is among a party that allows and supports his corruption, because it is how they do business, as a rule. (Sept 2020)
This next one chilled me to my core. It was revealed by a whistle blower that ICE is performing forced sterilizations and non-consensual hysterectomies on immigrant detainees. This news is some true next level fascist, dystopian horror, and should have caused a full feminist uprising…but by this point, the news landscape was such a shit show, this didn’t get ANYWHERE near the attention and outrage it deserves. (Sept 2020)
The supreme leader wannabe lies nonstop, in ways that hurt the American people with incalculable magnitude. It’s common place for news commentators to pepper their coverage these days with statements disclaiming how his every sentence is not true. (Let’s not forget, that this crusty comb over, is why we have the phrase “alternative facts.”) But in one of the more staggering examples: 45 knew how bad Coronavirus was in February and hid it from the US public, resulting in so many lives lost and the continued ravaging of the virus across the rest of the year, which will continue until Q3 of 2021, recently predicted by scientists. (Sept 2020)
It’s really, really important that we all fully digest how much the Republican establishment rolls over and lets this monster run rampant. One of the best pieces of evidence? The spineless Republican powers that be have adopted a platform that amounts to nothing more than “all hail Dictator Trump.” (Sept 2020) And as an important tool in his fascist toolkit, we are in a place these days where 45 has a state sponsored propaganda machine in Fox News.
Although he has since reversed his position, 45’s first reaction to California’s fires this summer was to deny federal aid because he is not popular in the state. He is really full “mask off” fascist. (August 2020)
Ya know who else propping him up besides Fox News and the spineless Republican establishment? A whole lot of racist police and police unions who want unchecked power to terrorize black and brown people. In fact, US law enforcement was found to have violated BLM protestors’ basic human rights and repeatedly used excessive force. (August 2020)
Given the depths of how shitty 45 is, this summer, even some of the slimiest Republican insiders were turning against him, and telling ALL THE DIRT of the bullshit and corruption inside this party and steaming pile of crap. They layers of corruption and slime run far deeper than is perhaps even possible to comprehend. (August 2020)
Let’s not forget how well connected 45 is to Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit and when he spent some interview time to wish well Epstein’s head human trafficker, Ghislaine Maxwell. For those of you keeping track of this kind of thing, he’s more than happy to align himself with abusers, rapists, racists, and the violent at every turn. It’s because he is those things and those are his people. (Aug 2020) Are those your things and are those your people?
If so, then you can find your White Supremacy gear in his merch shop. With a long track record of staunch support from the KKK and such, this summer 45’s reelection merch store blatantly sold stuff to appeal to Nazis, using Nazi imagery and thinly veiled dog whistles. (July 2020)
45’s narcissism and delusions are so strong, he’s a legit threat to…………………….everything. For example, despite having no authority to do so (except for his head cannon of him as our fascist dictator supreme) 45 casually floated an idea to delay the election. (July 2020)
Despite the LONG history of the census counting ALL RESIDENTS regardless of immigration status, the Dumpster Fire and Chief tried to order the Census not to count undocumented immigrants for awarding congressional seats. Of course, because we are working backward through time, we will continue to see numerous examples of how xenophobic he is, despite having an immigrant wife and his own lineage’s near immigration history. (July 2020)
Have I mentioned lately how this man has NO relationship to the truth? 45’s campaign tried to use a video clip from Ukraine in 2014 as if it was current and from the US to conjure up more fear and division. (July 2020) Also, his campaign has been all “LOOK AT BIDEN’S AMERICA” about BLM protests, when, like, this is obviously “Trump’s America.”
Because, of course, never far behind his lies is his tenacious anti-black racism. Trump tried to blame Black Lives Matter protests for the coronavirus surge. Data doesn’t support his claim. (July 2020)
And that anti-black racism is always coupled with his chummy relationship with police violence, so I’ll keep weaving these reasons back and forth together. All summer, 45 issued repeated threats of inappropriate use of federal power into Democratic run cities dealing with civil unrest, from the continued murder of black people at the hands of law enforcement. (July 2020)
Who’s up next for his scatter shot bigotry? Trans people, of course, another group that receive disproportionate energy from his “the cruelty is the point” philosophy. This past summer, 45’s administration released transphobic guidelines for homeless shelters. (July 2020)
It’s laughable to think that anyone could still believe that this troglodyte has helped the economy at all (unless you’re, like Eln Musk or Jff Bezos who are personally profiting off of the pandemic, and well, then there’s nothing I can do for what a tool you are…………..) BUT if you are somehow some chucklehead who has landed on this page, has read this far, and still thinks that 45 has done something positive for the economy, just remember, his fumbling of the pandemic erased that all, ya empty headed turkey. Momentary economic gains mean nothing if you are so ill suited to lead a nation through a true crisis that everything falls into a smoldering pile of shit in a matter of months. (July 2020)
Let’s never stray too far from checking in on the Salacious Crumb to his Jabba…what else was Moscow Mitch up to this summer to help out his buddy? Well this unholy alliance reached the milestone of codifying TWO HUNDRED conservative fundie cronies in lifetime federal judgeships appointments. All the hell that we have before us for years! (June 2020)
In yet another staggering moment of “wow this guy really is the arch villain in a dystopian novel, except this is real life” 45 used violent force to clear out an area of DC and then posed with a Bible in front of a church against the pastor’s will, during the height of BLM protests following George Floyd’s murder. (June 2020)
Meanwhile, Salacious Crumb-McConnell was slimeballing it around the Senate ever so happy to just generally present the biggest threat to US democratic norms and systems in recent memory, if not ever. And he BRAGGED about killing democracy while he was at it. (May 2020-Dec 2019)
Lest I get too far back in time that I forget to pause on this fact: Jabba dismantled the Obama era pandemic response team that could have helped us through this mess. (May 2020)
The trend of lies and deceit? It has permeated deep and has a chilling effect on so much. Jabba’s on-again, off-again buddy, Florida governor Ron “monkey this up” DeSantis’s administration tried to pressure their chief data scientist into altering COVID data, so she quit. (May 2020).
Just a quick note here that early in the COVID-19 pandemic, 45 and his Republican buddies admitted to wanting to limit the American public’s access to voting. The wannabe supreme leader said: “The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said this week of Democratic voting proposals. “They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Is that a promise, Jabba?? (April 2020)
The tax cuts that the wannabe supreme leader brags about? They fully only helped the rich……………………………….duh. (March 2020)
At the start of the 2020 election cycle, which feels like 50 years ago but as actually this same year, it was clear that 45 was happy to continue using “brazen” ways to campaign. Meaning “pushing lies and distortions and conspiracy theories into the bloodstream at an unprecedented rate.” (Feb 2020) This is also where I want to just interject a reminder about all that nasty Cambridge Analytical shit that involved Facebook and stealing the election in 2016. Here’s a documentary to watch if all the NYTimes pay walled sources are getting to you.
Let’s not forget, the Commander and Dumpster fire was impeached. I’m not sourcing that. Just reminding everyone. (Jan 2020)
There’s probably a more recent and better source for this claim, but 45 has profited off of the presidency in so many ways and he doesn’t give two fucks about what our constitution says about that or the fact that he doesn’t even pay taxes. (Jan 2020)
Remember when the biggest concern in 2020 was who close to the brink of war we got with Iran? Although the pandemic consumed our lives since, I don’t think that we should for one moment think that the effects of Jabba’s bumbling, incompetent foreign “diplomacy” won’t be felt still for years to come, in ways we cannot begin to predict. (Jan 2020)
Oh hey, Moscow Mitch is still at it…talking openly about how the Senate impeachment hearing was a sham…sure sounds like someone you want in charge of the more powerful arm of the legislative branch, right? Totally cares about the constitution and his responsibilities to the people it protects, right? (Dec 2019)
Meanwhile, The Evil Clown President: D. Pennywise, pardoned some r e a l l y bad guys who were war criminals and committed atrocious acts. (Dec 2020)
Remember how D. Pennywise tried to deny California relief aid for the fires? I thought you should know that Republican policies have filtered countless dollars toward private costal properties built unsustainably by millionaires. We’re forever told that there is no money for things like food, shelter, healthcare, and education for all………………but if one of 45’s buddies needs the feds to repair his oceanfront views with public dollars, whelp suddenly……….(Oct 2019)
He can’t let too much time pass without a blatant, embarrassing public lie. There was that clearly altered with a sharpie map that the wannabe supreme leader held up on the news to try to look less wrong than he was about a hurricane. (Sept 2019) This is a lazy edition for a super critical topic, but it’s really important that I fit in a moment to pause on just how bad D. Pennywise is for the environment, in general. Like. Really bad. His denial of science in this regard, is simply one extension of his overall anti-intellectual spin.
45 frenemy, the Zodiac Killer himself, and proud Canadian, Ted “Never forget: I liked a porn tweet on 9/11” Cruz tried to declare antifa terrorists (while having ACTUAL terrorists proudly among the supporters he and 45 loooooove.) (July 2019)
Gerrymandering and voter suppression stay Republicans favorite tools. Here’s some “…….smoking gun evidence. Here you had the Republican Party’s lead redistricting expert, the guy who drew gerrymandered maps in states all across the country, saying that the purpose of the citizenship question was to try to draw districts to help Republicans and whites.” Ya know, more Republican efforts to kill democracy and suppress voters, especially voters of color. (July 2019.)
Here’s more of that track record of unspeakable hatred of immigrants popping up. In 2019, oversight committees revealed the depths of the horrors of treatment of immigrants at the borders, including children in cages and continued family separation (July 2019.) Seeing as how Jabba also really, really hates Native Americans and has done so much to harm them too, it makes you wonder who exactly is, in his view, “American.” (Hint: we all know, it’s white people.)
This is closely connected to #35 up there about how the tax laws only benefit the rich: 45 and all of his billionaire buddies have created a system where they don’t pay shit in taxes. SO MANY of our societal ills could be addressed (housing, food, healthcare, and education for all) if we just dismantled the corporate welfare systems that are absorbing it all the money). So the next time that you’re arguing with your Republican uncle and he asks “who’s going to pay for all these social programs?!” just remind him that we’ve got more than enough money for this if we actually taxed big business and billionaires. I mean, he already knows that’s the truth and doesn’t care, I know, but don’t let him forget that you know too. (July 2019).
In an ongoing effort to make sure that this administration stays as fascist as possible, this occurred: “A Utah judge made critical comments of Donald Trump. Now he's suspended six months without pay. “ (May 2020)
Now we’re well back in time over a year ago…let’s check in on what’s been going on for reproductive rights during this time under the D. Pennywise regime? Well they’re trying everything they can to chip away at them, of course! (May 2019)
Hoping to contribute all the evil to the world that she can too, 45’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, piped up saying “Can I serve you full on Cruella Deville vibes?” by slashing special education funding and putting the Special Olympics in peril. (March 2019)
I’m trying to think of a way to summarize everything under the umbrella of “allowed Russian interference with our election” and “had his people scream ‘it found no collusion’ super, super loudly before the full report came out to obfuscate that he definitely did collude but Mueller just failed to fucking say that in plain language in the report. If you want to get a real good walk through of how that happened and what the Mueller report really says, then you really should listen to this linked Fresh Air interview. (March 2019)
Early 2019 also brought “The Trump Administration Quietly Changed the Definition of Domestic Violence and We Have No Idea What For” but I have a guess….perhaps it’s to protect abusers since Trump himself is a well known, proud one? (Jan 2019)
Remember the “crisis at our borders” that was declared only for 45 to try to continue to abuse his powers….while he golfed during said crisis (and throughout 95% of the rest of his presidency, if my very scientific measures are accurate). The only actual REAL crisis was how ICE was treating people, btw, which he was directly responsible for, as president and such. (Jan, Feb 2019)
56 reasons deep and we’re only into late 2018? I will probably have to cover more ground per reason to round out this list. So now that we’re traveling back to 2018, let me lump a lot under “how fucking often the federal government shutdown.” I know it’s hard to remember shit in our collective conscious for long in this day and age, but old boy just kept bringing the feds to a grinding halt and it was not pretty, and it was often about his meltdowns about his precious wall. (Which was a colossal failure, btw, and the fundraising for it was a scam that lined people like Steve Bannon’s personal pockets). (2018-2019)
This is another one I’m not sourcing but just will rattle off from my memory…in October of 2018, 45 SCOTUS appointee and known sexual assaulter Brett “Devil’s Triangle” Kavanaugh was confirmed for the bench by the Republican Senate majority, despite the clear truth that he did unspeakably horrible things to Christine Blasey Ford, who told her story with more grace and fortitude than I have words for. But as is par for the course with Jabba, women aren’t listened to or cared about one bit.
SPEAKING OF…all throughout his reign of terror, D. Pennywise continues the far radical right’s relentless attacks on Planned Parenthood….an entity that serves so many low income people across the country with their only access to reproductive healthcare or contraception of any kind. In 2018 we had “The Trump administration forcing Planned Parenthood grantees out of the Title X program — the nation’s only federal program dedicated to providing affordable birth control and other reproductive health care to people with low incomes.” (Aug 2018) [While I’m on this topic, let’s not forget that Voldem….I MEAN Mike Pence has so much blood on his hands from his unwavering hatred and attacks against Planned Parenthood. This Hooser will NEVER. FORGET. THAT.]
Jabba’s “the cruelty is the point” mentality remains…as family separation policy continued two years after Trump administration claims it ended. (June 2018)
Just before that, the US public begins to understand the depths of the problems with ICE when it is discovered how children are being kept in cages. (June 2018).
Meanwhile Mrs. Evil Clown President wore that fucking “I don’t really care, do you?” jacket as a big middle finger to those who do care about kids in cages…while claiming it wasn’t about that. Insert: Sure, Jan gif. (June 2018)
Ensuring that his anti-blackness stays front and center, remember the “shithole” countries comment about Haiti and African nations? It feels like that was 58 years ago, but it in fact only happened in 2018. (June 2018, Jan 2018)
And now we’re even further back into the past four years, but you know what’s the same? Salacious Crumb-McConnell’s repeated efforts to gleefully destroy democracy, never intending to hold 45 accountable for what’s in the Muller report and allowing rich Republican interests to continue to control everything. (Feb 2018)
Meanwhile, in the wake of yet another horrifying school shooting, and young activists from Parkland Florida speaking out, the supreme leader wannabe did absolutely nothing, but Tweet out callous nonsense. (Feb 2018)
In one of the more transparent acts of “I really only care about the rich” January of 2018, brought “Alex Azar, former president of the U.S. arm of Eli Lilly & Co., was confirmed Wednesday as the secretary of health and human services.” You read right! A former big pharma lobbyist and executive! Leading HHS!
Continuing 45’s “the cruelty is the point” stance, aka his ONLY cohesive policy strategy that I can ascertain, the Dumpster Fire & Chief tried hard as hell to decimate DACA and block all benefits for dreamers. (Jan 2018)
In December of 2017, I was up in arms about the tax bill that 45 was rolling out for a bunch of reasons. Here are the predictions that I wrote about back then: It will make the rich richer. (Proven true, see #37 above). It favors big business w/ corp tax cuts, but that won’t lead to more employment as Republicans claim. It discourages homeownership for the middle class which is another tactic to ensure the rich (landlords) keep getting richer. It makes student loan debt more difficult. It could make graduate studies only accessible to already very wealthy students. It repeals state/local tax deductions and effectively penalizes people who live in states where there are higher taxes (and therefore states that tend to have more social safety nets and progressive voters.) It’s predicted it will have a chilling effect on nonprofits and charity (which will mean a reduction in services that low income folks routinely depend on.) It is a giant threat to the health of middle/low income people. It will increase political corruption and the likelihood of election buying. A provision to repeal the long standing Johnson Amendment could “… dramatically increase untraceable political spending and lead to the creation of ‘sham churches’ to take advantage of the new avenue for political spending, which — unlike donations to candidates, ‘super PACs’ and party committees — would allow donors to deduct contributions.”
Ok, at this point in the list, I’m just getting tired, aren’t you? So gonna rattle off some simple facts and less commentary for a bit: 45 nearly tweeted us into war with North Korea in 2017.
CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity. (Dec 2017)
There was that ban on trans people in the military. (July 2017)
Trump signs order making it easier for men to sexually harass women at work and get away with it. (April 2017)
After repeatedly lying about it, 45 eventually admits that Proud Bigot Leader Steve Bannon wrote his inauguration speech. (April 2017)
The Muslim travel ban…the racist, xenophobic, islamophobic travel ban (when the real biggest terrorist threat comes from people most likely to support Jabba.) (Jan 2017)
I want to make just a general point here about how the entire administration has been full of complete ineptitude in their appointed roles. And all the firing? No one could survive long, beyond the biggest sycophants. And from the start, people made no sense in their roles or only make sense if you are full on evil and against the common good. DeVos for Education?? Rick Perry for Energy?? Pruitt for EPA??
We’re now into the time before he was president…a simpler time when D. Pennywise had no real power. Simpler for that reason, yes, but certainly no less creepy. Like, remember all the lude and lascivious stuff he’s said about his daughter, Ivanka? (Who, by the way, is a very bad person in her own right…but I shudder to think at what all she has experienced if this is the kind of stuff her dad is willing to say about her flippantly in public. What’s it been like behind closed doors?) And Ivanka is nowhere near the only woman to have these experiences…….
Of course, he openly admitted to sexual assault. And this flashpoint moment doesn’t even touch his other numerous accusers. (Oct 2016)
He grotesquely mocked someone with disabilities at a rally. (Aug 2016).
45 picked Voldem….I MEAN Mike Pence as his running mate. I know I had a passing reference or two to Pence above, but the simple fact is that this man deserves his own spot on the list and a segue into the master post of why he is the worst….and that post only contains information from 2015 and before. There’s so much more to add to it since, like the simple fact that he was the head of the coronavirus task force, for starters. Including the fly-attracting, homophobic, misogynistic Christian fundie Voldem….I MEAN Mike Pence on the ticket was a really important strategy for his rise to power, as you see…
From the very start, the coalition that Salacious Crumb and Jabba hot glue gunned together with bitterness, greed, hate, and an insatiable thirst for money, was a strategic move born of pure evil. Moscow Mitch and 45’s handlers strategically partnered to create this unholy alliance between powerful billionaire Republican forces who hold the purse strings, rabid Evangelicals who only vote with gusto specifically to limit LGBT rights and abortion access, and poor White Supremacist populists who have the numbers they need in the exact states they needed (and were the most susceptible to radicalization and online manipulation vis-a-vis aforementioned Cambridge Analytical/Facebook + their sorely lacking media literacy and critical thinking skills) to get us to where we are today and to forever damage American democracy. For the puppet masters behind the scenes pulling these strings, I will give them one credit: they understand the flaws, vulnerabilities, and inadequacies in the American political system and how to exploit these structures better than anyone, and they’ve done every possible thing they could over the past 12 years at least (since Obama’s election) to distort and rig the systems in their favor, to the maximum extent possible. And if you are AT ALL thinking, “the whole thing is fucked, I might as well stay at home because I don’t like Joe Biden.” Then CONGRATS! You are doing exactly what Salacious and Jabba and every other corrupt Republican and billionaire want you to do. They’re counting on you feeling powerless so that you stay powerless. They’re counting on us all not understanding how things work so that are forever stuck at their mercy and unable to make the real change this country desperately needs. They’re counting on the systems they’ve put their thumb on to tip the scales panning out in their favor again and again so that they can continue unchecked, and maintain the concentration of power in very few, white, rich hands. And to “stay the course” they’re counting on you responding in exactly a defeatist way, which is why I’ve written these 79 points, so now I’ll wrap it up with good old point number 80 as to why your happy ass needs to show up at the polls and vote against the fascist Dumpster Fire and Chief getting a second term so that we can ATTEMPT to survive this moment and then work on dismantling allllllllllll that systemic injustice next.
LISTEN TO ME: evilness is baked into the very fabric of this man’s being. No really. I finished reading Mary Trump’s “Too Much and Never Enough” this week and DAMN if you want to get a deep dive on the history of corruption, worship of money, abuse, and rampant racism in the essence of that family since the dawn of time, that was the literal breeding ground of the worst American politician to reach the White House, ever, give it a gander. But it reminds me that we MUST conclude our list with a repeat that this man has always been bad, a failure, and a dangerous racist, with this backwards look through time with an overview of his racist housing practices prior to politics, and how he took out those ads against the long since exonerated “Central Park 5” unapologetically to this day.
So. There you have it. My compilation of 80, yet now where near ALL, of the reasons to show up for Election 2020 and do the literal only thing that our current system has left at this stage for us to do to shut down the descent into total fascism: cast that harm reduction vote for Joe Biden.