The Donald J. Trump Death Cult And It's Aftermath...

(I wrote the following blog entry exactly one week ago, as I walked my dog along empty streets framed with boarded up storefronts, the rare passerby (most wearing a mask and social-distancing, nervously). I had finished it before I'd made it back home...

Every single person/entity that voted for the utterly incompetent and unqualified Donald Trump for President in 2016...

Every single person/entity who donated to Trump’s 2016 campaign...

Every single person/entity who supported Trump in any way/shape/form...

Every single member of the U.S. Representatives and every single U.S. Senator who ever turned a blind eye/acted as if they possessed deaf ears/refused to fulfill their Oath of Office ("Protect and Defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies - foreign and domestic") and/or voted to install incompetent and/or unqualified people as agency heads or as federal judges and/or voted for that $2 trillion tax break for millionaires, billionaires, and big corporations and/or voted to give away billions of dollars in "small business loans" to wealthy corporations and/or refused to vote to impeach Trump and/or refused to remove the justifiably impeached Trump from office...

Each and every single one of YOU has contributed to and/or played a part in making this ongoing, completely-avoidable, national public health and economic disaster possible.

Each and every single one of YOU has enabled and encouraged the malignantly-narcissistic, sociopathic, fantasist that is Donald J. Trump to continue to occupy the most powerful position in the country and in the entire world... even though this full-grown man continues to whine and complain about and attack those who criticize his unconscionable inaction/callous indifference/endless self-praising... as he continues take actions that only benefit his wealthy donors, big corporations, himself and his family... as he plays golf and holds campaign rallies while this far-from-"invisible" enemy continues to spread out - unabated and unmitigated - across the United States... despite the fact that Donald Trump empowered the Defense Production Act to force COVID-19-riddled meat-packing facilities to keep producing meat products... while our heroic, and  essential front-line medical and other workers continue to fulfill their job duties despite experiencing a continuing lack of desperately needed and, yet, inexcusably rare PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), which Donald J. Trump could empower the DPA to manufacture in the U.S. - right now ... YOU have all had a hand in creating the circumstances that allowed these once-avoidable and, now, excruciatingly painful (in loss of human lives) and massively damaging (economically) events to take their shocking toll on all of US.

There are, now, well over 1.5 million cases of COVID-19 and counting in the United States of America.  There are, now, at least 98,000+ and counting COVID-19-related dead Americans in the United States of America.

A mourner at a funeral home in NY took this photo of room overflowing w/ bodies.

And, ICYMI ~ ALL of this very real, human loss and pain and all of the long-term economic suffering that has/is resulted/resulting because YOU have allowed Donald Trump to continue to corruptly-occupy the Office of the President of these United States of America... ALL of the unnecessary and utterly avoidable death and destruction wrought by Donald J. Trump's abysmal response to a viral threat that the entire world saw coming in January and February... the responsiblity for all of it falls on - not only him, but - ALL of YOU, too (regardless of whether or not you accept that responsibility - it's still YOURS).

Absolute Unconscionable Presidential Irresponsibility

   
President Harry S. Truman: "The Buck Stops Here."

"President" Donald J. Trump: "I Don't Take Responsibility At All"... for the criminally-negligent federal response to the global COVID-19 pandemic that continues to savage America and which has already killed over 73,000 (and counting) of our fellow Americans.

Wait a minute (Cue record back-scratch)!

Is he not "The President"?  Is he not the President who wields - according to him - Absolute Power?

Wait!  "If he’s not ultimately responsible, who is?"

"Who runs the country?"*

*Answer:  Donald J. Trump is ultimately responsible.  Regardless of his cherry-picked denials.  He's the "Chief Executive" of these United States.  He's running the country.  

And, the terrifying thing is:  He's running our country just like one of his businesses.  Exactly like one of the various businesses he destroyed / ran right into the ground / ran into bankruptcy... and then, he just walked away.

Danger!  Danger Will Robinson!

This is an Emergency!

The Big Bad Wolf is in the Hen House and He's Slaughtering all of the Hens!

     
Please check out this article:

Presidential Irresponsibility In Spades

Thank You!

Obama's Speech/Iraq War End - GOP Says Bush Owed Thanks

President Obama spoke from The Oval Office on Tuesday - marking the end of combat operations in Iraq.

There was one thing which - although it remained unmentioned - still managed to be the unavoidable and enormous elephant in the Oval Office...

In his address to the nation, President Obama did refer to former President Bush's role as the "decider" who had initiated the Iraq War, yet he concluded his speech without ever calling attention to the actions of the Bush Administration - including the seemingly endless string of blatant lies and and fact-free fear-mongering - used by that Administration to - at first - justify the invasion of Iraq and then, to justify maintaining a huge military presence and occupying the country. (The Bush Administration - especially Dick Cheney and GWB himself - proved on more than a few occasions that they had absolutely no qualms about standing before the national and world press and spinning further fabricated fish-tales as needed after the previous one was exposed.)

When Obama referred to his predecessor, he did so only briefly and without including the little tidbit about him being the same man who deserves to be, ultimately, the one person held responsible for every one of the 4400 dead Americans and countless civilian casualties which were a direct result of Bush's decision to go to war.

President Bush is ultimately responsible, as well, for the countless billions of American dollars which were poured into the Iraq war and/or lost to members of the corrupt leadership there... Billions of dollars which would have better served Americans and American interests if invested in education, job creation, infrastructure, etc. here at home.

In keeping his remarks about Bush brief, President Obama continued to prove his previously-stated interest of looking ahead, not behind.

So, even though he could have taken advantage of these issues, President Obama, instead, chose to take the high road.

Once again, President Obama showed that he - for one - has something called Integrity.

You'd think that such graciousness would be appreciated.

Not so.

Despite having been given this hugely-undeserved pass by the current President during a major public address being watched by millions...

Despite the fact that Obama made the conscious decision not kick Republicans when they're already down - something the GOP would never do if the situation were reversed - Senior GOP members of Congress simply couldn't leave it alone.

Apparently, they misinterpreted President Obama's show of integrity as a sign of weakness - which is understandable, as many of them lack integrity and wouldn't recognize such a valuable character trait even if it were right in front... well, where it was.

The GOP leadership's hot air-filled, self-deluded response to Obama abstaining from beating their dead elephant points to their utter inability to simply sit down, thank their lucky stars and shut the hell up - even if it's in their own best interest to do so.

John Boehner criticized Obama's earlier opposition to the Bush surge which led to this "result" - namely, the end of the war.

Mr. Boehner, I have three words for you: "No Exit Strategy".

And, John Boehner wasn't the only windbag who foolishly tried to draw political capital - in a situation where there was none to be gained.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch "Crazy Mac" McConnell (R-KY) also seemed to feel that former President Bush had in some way been slighted by Obama's omission of his "achievements".

McConnell was all fired up over his perception that President Bush hadn't received the credit due to him for his contributions to this moment and moved quickly to call everyone's attention to what Obama hadn't: namely that without Bush's tireless efforts to initiate the Iraq War, the end of combat operations in Iraq wouldn't have been possible.

McConnell stood in front of a microphone and cameras and said, "I think that we should be thankful that another President had the determination and the will to carry out the plan that made tonight's announcement possible.".

* In other words, what McConnell is saying is that if then-President Bush hadn't brought about the start of the Iraq War, then President Obama wouldn't have this great opportunity to be marking The End of it.

Wow.

The senior Congressional GOP leadership actually wants us to be thankful that President Bush started the Iraq War.

Really? You guys want a "Thank You"?

Well, OK...

Senator Boehner, Senator McConnell (and all others of like mind):

I freely offer my "Thank You, President George W. Bush, For Starting The Iraq War":

Thank You, former President Bush, for setting a global precedent - one which other nations may very well invoke in the future to justify their own military actions - in which a sitting head of state chooses - unilaterally - to initiate an utterly unprovoked bombing & full-scale military invasion of a sovereign nation - a nation which was of no immediate nor direct threat... and for justifying all of it with lie after lie after lie and for having no exit strategy.

Thank You. Thanks a lot.

It is my most sincere hope that you, sir, receive all the credit (and everything else) you deserve for all that you did to make the unprovoked Iraq War a bloody, deadly and hugely-expensive reality... which is now, thankfully, coming to an end.

There, Mitch... John... that pretty much covers it.

Peace.
L.

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