Dear America,
While I took solace from the fact that the election was over in spite of the outcome, it didn't last long. Trump has already trumpeted his psychotic intentions and in effect, initiated his pursuit of those disturbing aspirations. Immigration, Greenland and the Panama Canal, renewing the tax cuts for the rich despite the already ever-increasing deficits created by them the first time around, persecution of those (including members of congress who held hearings about his attempt to thwart the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021) who dared to say anything derogatory about him or act to reign him in in his deluded grandiosity...all of it evincing our prospects for another four years tiptoeing along the precipice of the abyss of political catastrophe that his second administration surely portends. It's impossible to just sit and ignore the ominous future for the duration of his administration while he supplicates Putin like he did in that news conference in which he insisted that he could see no reason why Putin would have interfered to effect Trump's first election while practically licking Putin's cheek like a lap dog. And given the hegemony of the Republican Party in the other two branches of our government, which lets Trump suborn them publicly while they kowtow and grovel in fear, our hope of averting the decline Trump's tenure threatens becomes more remote. And now he wants to pass one massive "omnibus" bill implementing his perverse intentions all at once...and his skulking sycophantic accomplices march in synchrony with him toward our collective ruination.
Add to all that his inclination to throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves and his mindless support of Israel no matter how imperialistic and genocidal its policies and Netanyahu's overt Chauvinism get. By electing him, you have positioned us, America, in concert with the nefariousness of authoritarians all over the world and in jeopardy of the same loss of individual liberty that autocrats have inflicted with the acquiescence that dogmatic populists have endorsed and voted for there and here as well. You're thinking this is all alarmism, aren't you, and I have to admit that I hope you're right. I hope it's just alarmist pessimism and Trump will become a creature of selfless reason somehow...miraculously; From your lips to God's ear. However, he was not chastened by his loss in 2020 by 7 million votes, nor did he desist in his contrived insistence that the election was rigged...without evidence mind you. And he continues to insist that every charge leveled against him is a "witch hunt," not only demonstrating that he doesn't know what a witch hunt is but he doesn't understand that if you call every accusation such you inure even your followers to your feigns of innocence. No one believes that Donald Trump is virtuous and innocent of all that with which he has been charged. He stole those top secret documents and there are pictures of them laying around in his ballroom to prove it. We all saw the insurrection of January 6 on the news and that includes the violence that Trump supporters committed with the collateral damage they caused. So his and Tucker Carlson's insistence that they were just tourists is demonstrated to be an almost comically delusional fabrication. And to top it all off, a jury found him liable to the tune of more than $80 million for molesting a woman in a department store dressing room and a judge and another jury found him liable for slandering her for bringing that case against him. Add to that the 34 felony counts of which yet another jury found him guilty and you can't help but conclude that as far as the law is concerned, the only thing Trump can win for is losing. After all, it can't be the case that all juries are trying to burn him at the stake, can it. But you voted for him anyway.
So as far as relaxing for the next four years is concerned, that is out of the question. Events over the past four years alone...even if you ignore his previous acts that precipitated his reputation for being something less than laudable...demonstrate that Donald Trump is a miscreant and a liar not to be trusted. But still, 76 million of you voted for him and put us all in this current jeopardy. As I have said before, on election day, the American people get what they deserve, but I firmly believe that I, and the 73 million who voted for Harris, don't.
Your friend,
Mike
While I took solace from the fact that the election was over in spite of the outcome, it didn't last long. Trump has already trumpeted his psychotic intentions and in effect, initiated his pursuit of those disturbing aspirations. Immigration, Greenland and the Panama Canal, renewing the tax cuts for the rich despite the already ever-increasing deficits created by them the first time around, persecution of those (including members of congress who held hearings about his attempt to thwart the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021) who dared to say anything derogatory about him or act to reign him in in his deluded grandiosity...all of it evincing our prospects for another four years tiptoeing along the precipice of the abyss of political catastrophe that his second administration surely portends. It's impossible to just sit and ignore the ominous future for the duration of his administration while he supplicates Putin like he did in that news conference in which he insisted that he could see no reason why Putin would have interfered to effect Trump's first election while practically licking Putin's cheek like a lap dog. And given the hegemony of the Republican Party in the other two branches of our government, which lets Trump suborn them publicly while they kowtow and grovel in fear, our hope of averting the decline Trump's tenure threatens becomes more remote. And now he wants to pass one massive "omnibus" bill implementing his perverse intentions all at once...and his skulking sycophantic accomplices march in synchrony with him toward our collective ruination.
Add to all that his inclination to throw Ukraine to the Russian wolves and his mindless support of Israel no matter how imperialistic and genocidal its policies and Netanyahu's overt Chauvinism get. By electing him, you have positioned us, America, in concert with the nefariousness of authoritarians all over the world and in jeopardy of the same loss of individual liberty that autocrats have inflicted with the acquiescence that dogmatic populists have endorsed and voted for there and here as well. You're thinking this is all alarmism, aren't you, and I have to admit that I hope you're right. I hope it's just alarmist pessimism and Trump will become a creature of selfless reason somehow...miraculously; From your lips to God's ear. However, he was not chastened by his loss in 2020 by 7 million votes, nor did he desist in his contrived insistence that the election was rigged...without evidence mind you. And he continues to insist that every charge leveled against him is a "witch hunt," not only demonstrating that he doesn't know what a witch hunt is but he doesn't understand that if you call every accusation such you inure even your followers to your feigns of innocence. No one believes that Donald Trump is virtuous and innocent of all that with which he has been charged. He stole those top secret documents and there are pictures of them laying around in his ballroom to prove it. We all saw the insurrection of January 6 on the news and that includes the violence that Trump supporters committed with the collateral damage they caused. So his and Tucker Carlson's insistence that they were just tourists is demonstrated to be an almost comically delusional fabrication. And to top it all off, a jury found him liable to the tune of more than $80 million for molesting a woman in a department store dressing room and a judge and another jury found him liable for slandering her for bringing that case against him. Add to that the 34 felony counts of which yet another jury found him guilty and you can't help but conclude that as far as the law is concerned, the only thing Trump can win for is losing. After all, it can't be the case that all juries are trying to burn him at the stake, can it. But you voted for him anyway.
So as far as relaxing for the next four years is concerned, that is out of the question. Events over the past four years alone...even if you ignore his previous acts that precipitated his reputation for being something less than laudable...demonstrate that Donald Trump is a miscreant and a liar not to be trusted. But still, 76 million of you voted for him and put us all in this current jeopardy. As I have said before, on election day, the American people get what they deserve, but I firmly believe that I, and the 73 million who voted for Harris, don't.
Your friend,
Mike
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