The Deplorables

I want to apologize for the fact that while I was writing the last piece I had posted on the blog there was a horrific event taking place in Virginia. Literally, as I was writing the first rant about our so-called president in a very, very long time, there was a protest march staged by the most despicable human beings on the planet. This travesty was taking place at the exact time I was writing about the multitude of stupid acts that the racist in chief carries out daily and the reason that I had taken so long to write anything was because of the enormous volume of stupidity and disgraceful acts carried out by the least presidential president in history.

In case I haven’t articulated the irony well thus far allow me to put it more directly. I had taken a very long sabbatical from writing anything about the disaster in chief because I happen to have a full-time job. Because this guy is a walking tornado whipping up disastrous, shit-shows wherever he may wander with whatever he may tweet I found myself unable to keep up with hitting the bullet points of his mistakes. So, I took about 1,000 steps back and just stopped trying to be a person covering the highlights of the many lows of our new president. Now, for the irony of what took place.

After about four months of writing absolutely nothing about any of the plethora of mistakes he’d made I awoke last Saturday and began writing because of how he was handling the whole North Korea issue. My thoughts were that I’d better put something out there before his need to one-up and go tit for tat with a younger, Asian version of himself led us into World War III. I don’t know why I thought I’d have time to write a summation of catastrophic events carried out by the least qualified human being to take the oath of office as president before he’d outdo himself with despicable behavior. If I’d waited a couple hours to write and post “The Orangutan in Chief” I could have included the fact that America’s slimy underbelly of society had been organizing and spreading its diseased ideology while the majority of our country’s citizens had been making and embracing all the progress we were achieving as a society.

You see, while the majority of Americans are decent human beings who have seen, heard or read about all the atrocities committed by a certain, homophobic, Christian sect of white men against other races, women, people of different sexual orientations and those who belong to different religions – we thought we had brought about enough change and progress that we’d never have to see the KKK, Nazis, or white supremacists of all other names rear their ugly heads ever again. But, the fact is, when we came together as a nation and elected the first black president in 2008, it reignited the flames of hate and division that had never, truly, completely burned out. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that we shouldn’t have elected President Obama. Hell no! I voted for him twice and I would do it again today if I could. Truth be told, I wish I could do it again today.

No, I don’t regret voting for nor having President Obama elected as president in the very least. He is a great man and was a great president. What I am trying to say is that because the filth that is white supremacy hadn’t ever died out completely, rather, it had life breathed back into it with the election of the first black president during a time that our country had gone through the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Now, all of us who are sane, not ignorant and who have been paying attention with our eyes open wide along with our ears know that all of the extreme, income inequality has been brought to all of us by the same party (the GOP) that all these idiot, white supremacists vote for regularly. All of the disparity has been created by white men (and women) who run for and win elections as “republicans.”

Now, the fact that the liar in chief has done so many things prior to and during the election as well as after being sworn into office that are either racist or bigoted by their very appearance (at best) or are racists or bigoted literally (at worst) as well as the fact that he took office immediately after President Obama’s presidency ended created the perfect setting for all of this ugliness that had been festering to gain momentum. Then, when the asshole in chief had a chance to denounce this type of behavior and call it for what it was – domestic terrorism, he didn’t do so in the slightest. In fact, he went that extra little bit of obstinate (after doing whatever he was told to do to make things right two days too late by his chief of staff) and doubled down on his “wink and nod” to the most deplorable human beings on the planet. Remember all the shit that Hillary caught for calling his supporters out as the deplorables that they are inside and out? I hope the rest of this country’s voters can see now that she was right all along. Those who should truly be ashamed and forced to apologize to the people are those who condemned her for speaking the truth.

©August 17, 2017 – Tamara Imes-Nicholas 

The Orangutan in Chief

It’s been quite some time since I’ve chimed in about this country’s so-called president. The orangutan in a suit. I don’t like to say his name in print or aloud because it’s sort of like beckoning or conjuring some malevolent force that should and shall remain nameless. Nevertheless, he knows who he is and you all know who he is who shall remain nameless.

I feel as if everything I saw coming at the moment I knew he’d won the election has come into reality and at full steam right on schedule. This man never wanted to be president for any of the right reasons. He’s never done anything in his life for the right reason. I wish I could say that I don’t understand how he got elected when he was so obviously unqualified mentally and emotionally for the job of the most powerful man in the world. Frankly, the media (the real media) that he refers to, of course, as “fake news” has done a pretty fine job psychoanalyzing him as well as with reporting facts about him, his family, his administration and his campaign.

However, despite all the facts that are staring everyone who chooses to look with open and unbiased eyes, his base is unaffected by these things and continues to believe the most documented and proven liar to ever hold the highest office since Nixon. Frankly, he’s worse than Nixon because he lies for no reason whatsoever. He lies for the sake of lying and his narcissism is, literally, the worst case I’ve ever laid my eyes and ears upon. But that’s not even cause for concern anymore with the way things are unraveling at lightning speed. Yes, it is the underlying neuroses, but because we have been handed a president that was chosen by the minority of people in this country who are the epitome of what’s wrong with this country because they possess one or more of the following defects within themselves: uneducated, ignorant, prejudiced, and/or immune to facts… Because they chose the fate for the rest of this nation and, frankly, the world we are all in this shit show together.

What’s more, because the GOP continually puts party before country and have an unhealthy gang-like devotion to one another, we can’t hope for them to do the responsible thing of acting on behalf of and for the betterment of this nation and the rest of the world by taking steps to impeach this asshole. It’s like they’d rather go down with the ship taking the rest of us with them instead of doing the ethical thing of keeping their own integrity or, at least, honoring their own oaths to the constitution and the citizens they are supposed to be representing.

Sure, we see an occasional snippet from John McCain or Lindsey Graham where they speak sanely about something insane the toddler in chief does from time to time. But, I feel like, except for when John McCain gave the “thumbs down” vote on the last attempt to repeal and replace healthcare by the senate, that they only have these moments of sanity to keep their voters happy. What will really show true devotion to this country and all its citizens, by them and the rest of those in control of our legislative branch, can and will only be shown when they do the responsible thing and get the most dangerous and unstable person to ever hold our highest office out of the White House permanently.

I’m in complete agreement with Bill Maher when he said collusion was proven the moment that Don Jr. released his email about meeting with the Russians to get dirt on Hillary. But, because the GOP controls every branch within our federal government as well as two-thirds of all state governments, there’s only one of two ways “we the people” can expect to see the necessary changes come about. Both options do not offer the quick resolution needed because the two options are these: 1) The conclusion and findings of the independent counsel’s investigation, which everyone who knows anything about such endeavors agrees will take quite some time or 2) “we the people,” who have been trying to bring reality into the minds and lives of people who voted for the disaster in chief not because they had total love for him, but because they hated or couldn’t trust Hillary and saw him as the lesser of the two evils, continue our tireless work to rally the troops and come together in 2018 to remove the GOP from power.

See, unless the current legislators come to their senses and do the right thing; the obvious to everyone paying attention thing, we will be stuck with this train-wreck of a human being (let alone president) for way longer than is safe for the country or the world. Seriously, in six (very short) months he has managed to alienate our allies, start laying the groundwork for the United States to become a dictatorship by turning “his people” against real, factual news sources in exchange for his tweets (daily lies from the pathological liar and narcissist in chief) and (finally) get into a pissing match with North Korea. The last item on that list is and should be the biggest concern for anyone who doesn’t want to see what nuclear war looks like (not like there’ll be many left to tell the tale afterward).

I haven’t, even, touched on the multitude of other bullet points that give a clear and obvious outline as to why this man shouldn’t be president. Things like profiting from the presidency, the fact he has costed the American tax-payer more tax dollars than any other president before him by his weekly trips to his own golf courses and, after only six months of doing (literally) next to nothing in terms of governing, he’s taken his first vacation. I know most, if not all, of my liberal/progressive/Democratic peers remember all the shit he used to talk about our country’s last real president, Barrack Obama, regarding “golfing” and “vacations” and can quickly conclude what a gigantic hypocrite the nameless one has been.

But we aren’t the people who need to be aware of all the obvious and provable contradictions coming out of his mouth. No, it is all those who were so quick to believe Hillary was crooked or that Benghazi was her fault and so on. It is those people who need to pull their heads out of their asses and stop watching Fox News and getting their news from sources who provide “alternative facts” (fancy way that perfectly describes “lies”) and completely fake news. Yes, there are fake news sources. Unfortunately, for those of us who know the difference, the people who use that term do so incorrectly more often than not.

Still, I haven’t covered all the shit that has amassed over the course of six (short) months. To do so would, literally, take days of typing and would be so overwhelming for me to put together as well as for anyone reading to take in and digest. Which brings me to the reason it has been so long since I’ve bothered saying a thing about this shit-show of a presidency. It’s just too much. The only, real, objective I had with writing this (long overdue) rant was to point out the fact that it has been, just, too much. So, the real question I put to everyone in the GOP – who should be worried as to if they will keep their seat (since they don’t seem to care enough about the country and its people) – is just how much is it going to take to become too much for any or all of you who could, actually, do something about this mess right now?

You’d, all, best figure it out and do it soon because if you don’t do the right thing I can guarantee that those of us with real values, morals, and concern for this country and the rest of the world will make that decision for you in 2018. Your time is now. Do what’s right now or pay for what you didn’t do right later.

©August 12, 2017 – Tamara Imes-Nicholas