Oh Dems! Hurry Up!

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So now we are getting communiques from Rush Limbaugh about what the status of our government is!  What next---pronouncements by our ‘Dear Leader’ about the uselessness of the Congress and how we should all just trust him to make all our decisions for us?

Our ‘Dear Leader’ has now decided unilaterally that we should pull out of Syria—disregarding his advisors’ counsel.  Exit SecDef James Mattis-- perhaps the last ‘adult in the room’.  Now we hear that Trump is considering pulling all our troops out of Afghanistan. 

Apparently, Erdogan of Turkey spoke to Trump on the phone and said, “We’re gonna go into Syria and wipe out those nasty Kurds who happen to be your allies.”  What did Trump say?  “Sure thing, Recip, we will get out of your way and you can come in here and kill them all!”  Instead, we should have said, “You come in here and you will have to fight through us to get to them!”  But no, Trump our brave leader simply cut and ran.  To hell with our allies—they’re foreigners from shithole countries!  Who cares?  “Oh, and by the way, Vladimir, here’s a gift of the Middle East!” (I am sure Israel is trying to figure all of this out!)

Who is now informing and consulting with the President about military decisions, foreign policy decisions, budgetary decisions, etc?  After Mattis’ exit--no one!  Well, that’s not exactly true.  Our President is getting all his advice from the large-brained thinkers at Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Laura Ingraham, etc.  God Help Us!  Forget anyone who has years of experience in government. 

We are circling the drain, folks.  And where are the Republicans?--  Standing mutely by as Trump decides, all by himself, to shut down the government because the Congress won’t give him his stupid wall that he promised would be paid for by Mexico—ah well—just another ‘promise kept’—right?  It means nothing that our best minds on immigration think that there are so many other ways to amplify our border security with intelligent solutions.

What is so interesting to me is that after a midterm election where there was a clear repudiation of the Trump administration and policies, the man is simply ignoring the message.  Any normal president would have done some introspective thinking to see what he could do to bring along the majority of the country to understand and accept his ideas and policies.  Not 'Dear Leader'!  He is doubling and tripling down on his actions and vitriol against all the parts of the government and the people he has been hating. 

Like a 4 year old, he is going to hammer us, whine and scream at us, doing more of the same whether we like it or not.

So, now, elected Republicans—what is your next move?  Do you lie down like worms and bury your pointed little faces in the mud (a-la Paul Ryan?), or do you actually take responsibility for your constitutionally mandated jobs and bring the craven bully in the White House to heel---finally!  My guess is that you won’t do anything, and hopefully you all will die a long, agonizing political death over the next two years before we can boot you out!

I think the worst possible upcoming event could be the impending Mueller report in February.  What if the ultimate verdict of his investigation is that all this Russian intervention conspiracy and collusion behavior is the result of simple incompetence by Trump and his campaign—and not any deliberate conspiracy?  Then the Freedom Caucus crazies (I marvel at the irony of that moniker!) will claim victory and our country just might not be redeemable since whatever trace of psuedo-patriotism and intelligence remaining in the Trump base, will be washed away in a maelstrom of unstoppable uninformed executive decisions until the next election-------if we ever have one!

This is looking more and more like a dictatorship in the making.  Our republic is supposed to be a collaborative country that has separation of powers and truly represents all the people of the nation who adhere to the ‘Rule of Law’.  Is that what is happening here?  I think not.  What we have is an unhinged Machiavellian liar trying to take control of the three branches of our government; being cheered on by one third of the country( ‘deplorable, low information voters’) who are blind to his criminal misdeeds. Along with their extreme right-wing nutjob representatives in Congress, they all scream their delight with every chaotic decision he makes.

Congratulation Republicans!-- for initiating the advent of the 1^st American Reich!  

November 2020 seems quite distant right now.  Somehow we must survive until then.