Donald Trump will soon command the most powerful army in the world …
Well, here I was prepared to suggest the recount that will commence in Wisconsin and possibly two other Hillary-Had-To-Have States was bad form and would only tack on needless pain and suffering to the torture of a brutal campaign.
I was prepared to suggest that picking up all those broken pieces, gluing them together, and mobilizing into something resembling an ass-kicking opposition force was a start to better things.
I was prepared to accept that people who might refer to themselves as otherwise very good did a very bad thing. On Nov. 8, they might have voted Trump standing no-matter-what hard on right-wing principle. Or maybe they didn’t even bother, figuring all the rest would quiet the thunderstorm. Others picked a dangerous time to try out their righteous fervor, presumably knowing a fall from that third party, high-wire act could result in the rise of dangerous consequence.
I was prepared to back that up by pointing to a single county in Wisconsin (Adams) that went Obama over Romney 54 percent to 45 percent in 2012, but Trump over Clinton by 59-37. That’s not a swing, it’s a sonic jolt. (Newspaper nod right there. Good read.)
I was prepared to suggest that we really are better than this and “Making America Pretty Good and Decent Again” was an honest, worthy, doable venture, and in the end would surly prevail over whatever was being Twitter-shouted from the man-child in the Golden Tower.
I was prepared to say (again) that voting machines aren’t broken in this country, it’s the heart and soul that needs attention.
I was prepared to say all that … until Donald Trump said this earlier this week: “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
And just like that, I was reminded again Trump is not only unfit to be America’s president, he is unfit to be a human. He must be opposed.
It would waste another 30 seconds of precious time if I harangued on about why a statement like this coming from the presumed leader of the free world is dangerous. If this is how you want your president to act, however, carry on and by all means kick the next available dog that walks by.
This is who Donald Trump is and was. He is an insecure, scary, wannabe elite who gleefully rips away pieces of stale bread that sit in endless supply on his diamond-studded coffee table and throws them to his adoring piranhas, who are only too eager to swallow everything whole.
And like that moldy bread, Trump will continue to tear away at the colorful fabric of this country — not because he believes in anything, but mostly because he doesn’t.
He will do all these mindless, little things despite the fact he lost a healthy majority of the vote in the election. That he doesn’t seem to like this and is letting it get under his thin, orange skin is small reward for the detractors, and dangerous as hell for all of us. He will soon be commanding the most powerful army in the world.
Diligence, energy, vigilance and opposition is the only way forward.
Are you prepared for that?
