I have never in all my 77-plus years seen anyone as despicable as Donald Trump.
And I know writing this will generate the usual comments from the Trump devotees who can see no wrong in anything their champion does. Whether it’s RIDICULING a physically handicapped reporter or bragging about groping women, it’s okay because he’s “gon’ make Amurica grate agin.”
A decent person would never do that. If I had made fun of a less fortunate person while growing up, my grandfather would have slapped me three ways from Sunday. And he would’ve been justified. If you can defend mocking a physically handicapped person, you can rationalize defending just about anything – and it makes you less of a human being.
I have a news flash for you: Trump is no more interested in “making America great again” than he is in understanding his daily intelligence briefings. He is interested in one thing and one thing only: siphoning off millions of dollars for Donald J. Trump.
And he’s doing that right now in spades and his followers are too blind to see it. Those 20-30 emails per day he is sending out daily in the names of himself and his family members and political allies, ostensibly to raise funds to fight the legal battle for the presidency (that he, incidentally, has already lost) are actually to benefit DJT, affectionately known here as President Tweet Thang.
Since the election (which again, he LOST), he has already raised a figure north of $200 million, of which his special PAC gets 60 percent or more. And get this: there are no restrictions on how he can spend that money. It will go to pay him a nice seven-figure salary as well as paying his deadbeat kids.
This is money in large part from people who can ill-afford to lay out cash for some pseudo-televangelist-like huckster who has no more concern for working American than he has for those children he’s locked in cages.
Yesterday, at his rally in Georgia, he boasted that he has worked harder in the past three weeks than ever before in his life. That’s probably true, but has he been working for Americans or to overcome the pandemic? Hell, no.
- He’s been working to overturn a constitutionally legal election that he lost by more than 7 million votes.
- He’s been working to give his kids, political allies (and possibly himself) preemptive pardons, raising the obvious question of why do they need pardons if they’ve done nothing illegal?
- He’s been busy attempting to speed up federal executions so he those he hasn’t killed by ignoring the coronavirus threat he can pick up via firing squad.
- He’s been busy attempting to strip environmental protections for air, water and wildlife to the benefit of corporate donors.
- And when he wasn’t doing all that, he was playing golf at his own resorts, forcing US taxpayers to pick up the tab for millions of dollars for housing and feeding (water at Mar a Lago: $5 a glass) Secret Service details, hangers-on and family members. Meanwhile, First Lady Melania (“Let them eat cake”) Antoinette blithefully announced a new White House tennis pavilion – in the midst of a pandemic and an economic recession. That should ease the pain of losing your job, your health insurance and perhaps your home.
It’s not like he didn’t have the opportunity to do more. Earlier this year, PFIZER offered to sell the US another 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine in addition to the 100 million initially ordered, but Trump passed on the offer. That could cause delays in distribution in this country. The 100 million doses first ordered are sufficient for only 50 million Americans and now the US is going to have to wait until Pfizer has supplied other countries before it gets additional doses.
How bone-headed is that to not order as many doses as possible to stem the pandemic in this country?
Donald Trump has the blood of more than 282,000 Americans who have died of Covid on his hands. Make no mistake about that. Likewise all those patriotic members of Congress like Sens. Tom Cotton, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Marco Rubio and yes, John N. Kennedy, and Reps. Clay Higgins, Steve Scalise, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and all the others who have sold their souls and sacrificed their principles at the altar of reelection and campaign contributions while forsaking America.
Yes, I am calling their patriotism into question and if they don’t like it, tough. If they stand by such a person, and look the other way when he says and does the things he has, I don’t consider them patriots.
Don’t believe me when I say to Trump’s frenzied fanatics that your patriotic priorities are misplaced? Well, try chewing on this a while:
For all those people whose misguided sense of patriotism has them thinking he’s so damned good for the country (certain of my family members included), I would offer this little civics test:
- How many amendments are there to the US Constitution?
- How many amendments are there in the Bill of Rights?
- We all know what the First and Second Amendments provide, but what does the Fourth Amendment provide?
- Which amendment did Trump violate when he walked across the street for that photo-op of him holding a Bible upside down in front of that church?
- How many Cabinet positions are there?
- Is the Vice President a member of the Cabinet?
- How many members of Congress (both houses combined) are there?
- How many members are there in the House of Representatives?
- How many senators?
- How many US Representatives does Louisiana have?
- Name four of them.
- How many Senators does Louisiana have?
- Name them.
- How long are the terms of representatives?
- How long are the terms of senators?
- How many justices are there on the US Supreme Court?
- How long are the terms of federal judges?
- Does the President have the line-item veto?
- How many combined members (House and Senate) does the Louisiana Legislature have?
- How many representatives?
- How many senators?
- How many justices sit on the Louisiana Supreme Court?
- How long are the terms of Louisiana Supreme Court justices?
- Name the capitals of at least 20 states.
- Name at least 25 presidents.
If you are unable to get at least 15 of these 25 questions correct, you need to (a) go back to school, (b) cease debating politics altogether, (c) quit watching/listening to Fox News, OAN, Info Wars, and/or QAnon, (d) turn in your membership card to whatever militia you belong to, (e) all of the above.
Louisiana Voice 
Man… your email inbox sounds like a dumpster fire, lol.
Tom…it is my fear that Trumpers simply do not believe in Civics, especially if you have to read and take tests on it. They obviously do not believe in the entirety of our Constitution. So, where does this leave us? With a goodly portion of Americans (unfortunately White Americans) who are so emotionally and mentally ignorant that they follow the weakest old White man in the universe and send him in their dimes and dollars and never realize that they have been taken complete advantage of….just as long as they can wear the cult MAGA cap and chant stupid slogans fed to them by his TV Reality crew. What was that song about “what a wonderful world”….not until Trump and is “ism” are long gone from America! End of Rant!
Trumpsters should also be asked what the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says. It’s every bit as archaic as the Second Amendment.
Most Trump supporters admire what he does (and what they choose to believe he does) and wish they could be more like him.
They would answer your quiz the same as the punchline to the best joke I ever heard EWE tell: “Well, I (we) don’t know and I (we) don’t care.” The statement to which they were responding in the EWE joke was: “The two biggest problems facing Louisiana are ignorance and apathy.” And, those are still the 2 biggest problems facing Louisiana and the U. S. A.
Fortunately, 1/2 credit in civics is again (since 2016-17) required in Louisiana high schools and students are supposed to learn enough to pass the U. S. Citizenship test, so that’s good. Of course, if they remain apathetic, whatever they may have learned may be quickly lost to the sands of time.
Perfectly stated. Sadly, when it comes to the Trumpsters, it will fall on deaf ears. Still, thank you!
I can answer 23 of the 24 questions without a reference and I disagree with the supposition of the remaining “question”. I also note that the article itself and some of the comments seem like middle school taunting and perhaps a little bigoted. The left hand pinko commies rapidly start name calling birther, trumper, denier, racist, and so on rather than discuss an issue. Inflation will rob the dollar of 30 percent of its buying power with 18 months, remember.
Let me see if I understand. You would accuse someone of “middle school taunting” when your hero seems to hold franchise rights to such tactics AND you use terms like “left-handed pinko commies” in making such accusations? Wow. Just wow. AND you accuse me of refusing to discuss issues when Trump can only name-call, lie and boast while refusing to discuss issues and walking away when confronted with tough questions. I believe some would call your comment a double standard. Just sayin’.
…don’t forget golfing, Tom. He’s been playing a “bigly” amount of golf amid the conspiracy tweets.
…And by the way, there were 25 questions, not 24.
“The left hand pinko commies rapidly start name calling…”
…to which you respond with middle school name calling and trumpian predictions. SMDH
Absolutely love it Tom!
From Paul Waldman in today’s Washington Post:
“According to the most recent FEC report, Trump has spent $8.8 million on legal efforts to overturn the election but has used that effort to raise more than $200 million, sending hundreds of email pitches to donors begging them to contribute to his quest to save the election from being stolen by dastardly Democrats.
Much of that money will go to a leadership PAC that Trump can use for all kinds of other purposes, including steps that would help him mount a 2024 campaign. He could also easily funnel the money into his own pocket, by having the PAC spend it at his properties.
As long as those millions of suckers keep sending in their contributions and tuning in to their favorite shows, the people perpetrating the con will keep winding them up to greater heights of outrage. But what happens when President-elect Joe Biden actually takes office? Will they finally realize they got scammed? That their leaders knew all along that Trump lost but kept milking them for money anyway?
Don’t bet on it. The GOP base’s eagerness to fall for every new iteration of this con is limitless, and nobody knows that better than the party’s leaders.”
Tom, where did the “like” button disappear to? I always try to like a post a writer has done.
Try this:
https://louisianavoice.com/2020/12/08/a-civics-test-for-trumpites-if-you-cant-pass-you-should-turn-in-your-militia-membership-cards-and-cease-debating-politics/#comments
Still not seeing it however I recently updated Firefox and something may have occurred during that update.
loved it, keep it going, and my my my facebook friends are disappearing but seems the Baptists are regrouping and sending money to the “chosen one”,sure you get the same ones which are so funny except my friends and relatives (some of them) believe it. thanks ron thompson
Amen, Ron. All 50 states have now certified the election, yet the sitting president, at a Hanukkah party last night, proclaimed that he won “by a landslide.” How can anybody see this as anything but crazy? I don’t know, but I, too, have acquaintances and relatives who believe it and either don’t see or don’t care that he is tearing the fabric of this country apart. Not even the most talented fiction writer could have predicted a cult worshipping the President of the United States and believing everything he says and stands for? The implications are ominous. As my good friend, V. J. Bella, often says, “I’m glad I’m on my way out and not on my way in.”
This is the best article I have ever read about Trump. THE BEST!!!