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