Happy 4th of July, happy Independence Day to a nation formed by immigrants for immigrants. In fact lets do a quick demonstration: every one here who is a descendant of immigrants or an immigrant themselves, raise your hands. Assuming you each only raise one hand you'll need to give me a bit of time while I count the approximately 327 million of you (otherwise known as EVERY resident of the country including American Indians (simply the first immigrants.)) It certainly includes your president. About as German as a person can be. And of course his fresh-of-the-boat trophy wife, barely dry yet from the voyage, would be raising her hand higher than most.

So Happy Independence Day to immigrants, both those already in the door and those yet to come. I realize it is difficult but try not to pay too much attention to the temporary disaster otherwise known as the current administration. We screwed up, made a very very big mistake. No apology would be enough. Cause we gave the keys to those representing darkness. Elected as our leader one who preys on our fears, frustration. Anger. A president who has surrounded himself with equally utterly astoundingly unqualified scum. An incestuous, nepotistic group of hatemongering racist sexist mean hate-filled skanks who drained the swamp and replaced it with raw sewage. But it is temporary. Even with the near daily assaults on democracy made by the current president, even with the Fascism he represents, I have to hope the authors of the Constitution built in enough protections to ultimately keep us safe from even the low-life scum we face today. Have to hope we survive our mistakes and someday return to the welcoming democracy envisioned by immigrants nearly 250 years ago. You know - the immigrants who made it so YOU could be a resident here. We have survived traitors in the past. And while yes, your current president makes Benedict Arnold look like an 'effing patriot and Richard Nixon a goddamn saint, I think we will survive this scourge, too.

A toast then, on this celebration day. To democracy, decency, inclusion, equal rights equal protections for all. To making, and protecting a place where everyone has an equal chance to flourish.

Oh, and how does that drivel go, you know, that nonsense on the Statue of Liberty that represents the philosophy that let you or your descendants in? something like...… Give me your tired, your poor; your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless. And I will lift my lamp beside the golden door to show you the way.

Every day, every single day a new disaster, new debacle manufactured by Trump and his merry band of skanks. This has become like an especially dramatic reality t.v. show. Only this particular game is being played out at our expense. The world's expense. It is embarrassing it is exhausting it is demeaning it is destructive and, it is increasingly dangerous.

a few headlines from today's news. Just one day:
"U.S. Quits UN Human Right's Council" (apparently Trump thinks the group is anti-Israel. Can't imagine why anyone would be anti-Israel, what with the most dangerous, vicious terrorist organization on Earth being the Israeli government); "Trump Eyes Ending aid to Countries that send "not their best people." I think that is a second grader's way of saying - we don't want you unless you are good people. "Good people" apparently being defined by Trump, AKA we don[t want you unless you are a particularly sleazy used-car salesman AKA "I'm not going to let you in unless you are someone I can make a member of my cabinet";
"Russia to impose Duties on Metal Goods after U.S. imposes Tariffs." Another example of the affects of Trump's brilliant (kindergarten level) economic theory; "Germany's President Worries ties with U.S. have been Irreparably Damaged"; Now there's some smart foreign policy. Turn your allies against you. Makes you proud, doesn't it? "China Warns Trump Trade War could Destroy World Economy" (the prez has been benefiting from the Obama legacy of economic recovery. He may have just about succeeded in ending that.) "I Will Not allow the U.S. to Become a Migrant Camp! Not on My Watch!" Trump being quoted, and in an ironic manner considering it is he who has turned the White House into a migrant camp what with his fresh-off-the-boat immigrant trophy wife. Apparently you will be let in if you happen to be attractive and able to dupe Donald which of course is not difficult. Still, though, we should probably build a wall around Melania. Just to be safe. And, considering every citizen of this country is either an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant (yes, that includes American Indians - they just happen to be the FIRST immigrants) I suppose maybe we should build a wall around everybody? Not sure Mexico will pay for all of that, however. Maybe if instead of building an individual wall around each person we could to it in groups of five, or something. Maybe then Mexico would pay for it. Right, that's the ticket.

"Governors Refuse to send National Guard Troops to Borders." Seriously?! So there ARE still people out there who know the difference between right and wrong and are willing to make their thoughts known. "Hundreds of Members of Sessions's Church write Formal Complaint over Immigration Policy" (the little fella's own pastor wants him arrested for child abuse), this after Jeff Sessions quoted the Bible in explaining Trump's immigration policies. Quoted the same passages from the Bible used by the Nazis to justify what they did to the Jews. The EXACT same passages. Which of course circles us back around to the Israeli government - big supporters of Comrade Trump. Please, someone explain to me how any Jewish person anywhere can support Trump let alone their own government. Trump and Netanyahu are doing to the Palestinians, Muslims the same things the Nazis did to the Jews. How is it OK for Trump and the Israeli government do what the Nazis did? When did it become O.K. to oppress an entire people because of their religion? When did it become O.K. for YOU to stand back and do nothing while this and so many other wrongs are occurring in this country and the world? What gives any of us the right to let these things happen?

The questions are rhetorical. The answers of course are - disgusting human stupidity and weakness. Your own stupidity and weaknesses that you are happily letting Trump exploit.

Anyone still supporting this series of disasters otherwise known as the president is not just an enemy of the state, not only a traitor - you are an enemy of humanity.

And with that - Welcome to the United States of Trump. The biggest shithole country in the world. :)
Where the president is a pussy-grabbling draft-dodging veteran-slamming child-abusing habitual-lying anti-democracy anti-human rights constitution desecrating dangerously destructive embarrassment of a low-life coward. Whew. Try saying that three times fast....
And if you think any different You. Are. Wrong. The evidence is the same for all of us. Yet still, you support him.

And you will still be supporting him when we are clicking our heels together in unison, shouting Sieg Heil!
Oh! Maybe you'll get lucky and be the one who will flip a pfennig to decide who's turn it is to warm up the ovens! That'll be fun!

And with that I think I may be done.

Cause this is hopeless.
We, are hopeless.

His attacks on the judiciary, undisguised attempts to suppress the media; manipulation of the legislative branch; interference in the economy - this is a president openly meddling in the affairs of private companies by using his position to decide which business will succeed which will fail; his dismal human rights actions - suppressing attacking desiring to deport an entire group of human beings because of their religion; all of it amounts to something much different than democracy.

The previous is an only slightly modified quote from Madeline Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, as she described the situation causing her family to flee. To escape Nazi Germany in the late 1930s.

It is not O.K. to stick your head in the sand and hope this isn’t happening. History is crowded with examples of the results of that strategy. In this case it amounts to being accessory to the disaster. It makes you against America.

Am I being too extreme? I sure hope so.  Time will tell.  On the up side this particular wannabe tyrant is certainly not as smart as Adolph. Then again he doesn't really need to be. Not so long as there are others supporting him who are.

Trump is the most dangerous president in the history of this country. None before have even come close to his level of anti-democratic activities. Certainly none have matched his utter classlessness.

I'll go with it again - far too many before us have given their all to provide and protect our way of life. You, me none of us has the right to turn our back on this and let it go. What is happening is wrong, and on a scale that threatens the whole ballgame. If you cannot see that then you are in a trance, stupid, or actually blind. To stand idly by like a bunch of mindless bobbly-head dolls is treasonous, it is being activity Anti-American. You are part of putting all of us into harms way.

To support Trump is to oppose America.
To not oppose Trump - is to oppose America.

If it does all go to pieces tomorrow, if it turns out the wacky old guy who wouldn't shut up (me) was right and you wonder who to blame - look in the mirror. It will have been you who stood by and did nothing as it happened. History will show, it was you who did it.

"Israeli forces killed 58 Palestinians and wounded 2,400 on the boundary fence with Gaza on Monday, local health officials said, a level of bloodshed not seen since the most violent days of Israel’s 2014 war in the territory." "The dead included eight children under the age of 16." "The United States on Monday blocked the adoption of a UN Security Council statement that would have called for an independent probe of deadly violence on the Israel-Gaza border, which erupted as the new US embassy in Jerusalem was opened." "The Security Council expresses its outrage and sorrow at the killing of Palestinian civilians exercising their right to peaceful protest," read a draft of the statement, a copy of which was seen by AFP." "The Security Council calls on all States not to undertake any steps that further aggravate the situation, including any unilateral and unlawful measures undermining the prospects of peace." "It also said that any decisions and actions "which purport to have altered the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect" -- a reference to the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital."

This is called "murder," for the many of you who seem to have lost track of the difference between right and wrong. By moving an embassy to a location where they knew it would cause the most chaos; an embassy that did not need to move...........by directly violating instructions from the United Nations, by taking actions opposed by every other civilized country on this particular planet - the most lethal terrorist organization in the world AKA the Israeli government along with their obedient 'lil puppy Donald Trump have created a situation where many, many people are dying and suffering injury. A volatile region being wound up ever tighter. A situation waiting to explode into full-on war.

Why? For what purpose?

Impeach. Invoke. Trump is pulling this country down into the sewer where he and his banana republic administration exists. Your president represents a clear and present danger not just to this country, but to the world. My willingness to accept other opinions is nearly gone. We're all seeing the same things. It has become all too obvious.

If you are for Donald Trump you are against the United States of America.

he drained the swamp filled it with raw sewage then turned loose the diseased rats he surrounds himself with.   Hookers and lawyers and cheats and liars.   A nepotistic incestuous sold-out tangle of skeeze and skanks.  Criminals all from top to bottom.  Parasites, leeches, feeding off your anger and fear.   

And people still support this piece of filth.  Either that or desperately look the other way and hope it isn't happening.

I feel as if I'm in a particularly dark episode of the Twilight Zone.  Surely others are seeing and hearing the same things I am?   What is wrong with everyone?  We can't take this place for granted.  This country.  It is not somehow magically protected.  It needs care, and watching over.   We have failed in that duty.  You me and everyone else who let him in.  Every day, every single day piece by piece this low-life open sore is destroying what so many people worked so hard to create.  You are disrespcting the sacrifices of my father.   And his father and his father as far back as my family has been here.   You are disrespecting the sacrifices being made today by others.  None of us, not you not me and sure as hell not a traitorous draft-dodging veteran-slamming coward like Comrade Trump has the right to do that. 

Nothing happening in the current administration will Make America Great Again.  Comrade Donald and the bucket of scum that is his administration are doing precisely the opposite.  They are making America a big, ugly, sad dangerous joke.  The world is laughing at us.  Trump's bff Putin most of all. 

It would be tempting to identify Trump and his supporters as communist wannabees.  They are not.  The communists don't want Trump or anyone who supports him.   Not near smart enough.  No, what Vladimir Putin (AKA the one really calling the shots) wants is to let Trump do what Trump does best - make chaos and destruction.  To screw up. 

To demolish the USA from the inside out like some rancid infection (then lie about it disavow any responsibility and have his morally absent lawyers clean up the mess and charge the rest of us for the effort.)

Putin gets to sit back and smile as we destroy ourselves. 

If you are not against him you are for him. 

Impeach.  Invoke. Get rid of this argument in support of abortion before he damages the United States beyond repair.

If he hasn't already.

Michelle Wolf, guest comedian at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, roasting some of her own kind (women) who are members of the current administration:

On Sarah Huckabee Sanders: "An Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women. Whose "smokey eye" makeup is made from the ashes of burnt facts."
On Ivanka Trump - "about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons."
On KellyAnne Conway - "An inveterate liar. if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get KelleyAnne under it?"

Some of her more biting comments were aimed at those present. The reporters themselves. To include: "Trump has helped you sell your papers your books and your T.V. You helped create this monster and are profiting from him."

That I even read this article is another reason why I try to stay away from the news these days. Anyway, some in the media seem disappointed with Ms. Wolf's routine. About it being mean-spirited and tacky. Offensive.

Really? Maybe a little context will help: consider the environment set up by the current administration. Trump has done and said some of the skuzziest things of any president in history. He puts the "low life" in low-life. I'm even willing to give him credit for single handedly creating "trickle-down class-less-ness." He is a walking talking festering-sore.

And somebody is unhappy with a comedian having a little fun at our expense? This is her opportunity to make a splash. Her fifteen minutes. If that involves laughing at our stupidity for (almost) electing Herr Trumph president, then good for her. Seems to me it all fits quite nicely.

You have to expect things to become "tacky", if for no other reason than to keep up with the Prez. It's the new playbook. There is no longer any "too low" to go. No bar to lower. Comrade Donald has made very sure of that. Over and over and over again. He drained the swamp and opened the sewer and turned loose the diseased rats he surrounds himself with. We're all swimming in it now, every day. We are covered in icky sticky tackiness, used to the stench. It is the new normal.
And that, is truly sad.

And, exactly as helpful as an empty box of tampons.

Dear President Emmanuel Macron,

If you ever get tired of the top job in France please consider coming over and being a candidate for leader here. You seem to truly understand what this Country is supposed to mean, and have the dignity to make America great again. Sure, there's that pesky requirement the President be born in the States. But thanks to Comrade Trump we already have a fresh-off-the-boat first lady. And like Donnie says - it's ONLY the Constitution, anyway. Fake rules, you know. (of course we have to consider the possibility he arbitrarily decides to ban short, French guys who marry women old enough to be their mother. Which would make exactly as much sense as his Muslim ban (short French guys who marry older women are all scary and terrorists)) Mmm.

Anyway, thanks for visiting. Maybe you reminded Congress what a leader with more than half a molecule of class looks and acts like. You certainly speak better English than Herr Trumph. It was fun listening to you torch him while knowing he didn't have a clue.

Thanks again.