Dropping the Don, Like a Bad Habit

ON INAUGURATION DAY, I promised myself, and the American people, including those on the far right who bear confederate battle flags, guns, including AR15s fully loaded, and on special occasion swastikas, that I would give the new president, the Don, a fair chance. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind, as Jefferson might write, and basic integrity, demand nothing less. Two years later I have done this, and am done. The only thing the don would have to do to entice me to like him even at this late date would be to announce, or to twitter tweet, that he received a message from nature's God, as Jefferson might write, and is now determined to fight climate change, and whip its ass, as only he, the don, can do, totally terrifically, as the don might tweet. Believe him, as he he might add, tweetingly. That alone, a mere twitter tweet from our Don, without even proper grammar or articulate use of English, and I would be on board. What might you guess are the chances are of that happening? About as great as the chance of the don (I call him that because of his leadership role in a large gang of organized criminals, called republicans, whose crime it is to fail to fight climate change) letting his hair turn from bright orange to natural grey, you might reply. You would be quite correct. Trump must be impeached and removed not because he likely conspired with Russian criminals to get elected, or because he has lied seven hundred trillion times, or because his has a cobweb of conflicts of interest, or any of the other multitude of reasons for his possible impeachment, but for one reason, and one reason alone: he believes, or says he believes, that climate change is a liberal, media, and Chinese conspiracy hoax, and that even if the climate is changing, it will change back. He actually said all those things; you couldn't make them up, but you could look it up, as Casey Stengal used to say. This of itself proves the man is wacko, and unfit to serve, as my bumper sticker proclaims. Thus, he refuses to fight climate change, and he actually encourages it by digging for coal, even though coal is being priced out of the free market by natural gas and solar and wind energy. Trump ignores the free market, and digs for coal, without even getting his hair or suit ruffled. For many years the Department of Defense, USA, has described climate change as the greatest threat to American national security. Thus Trump is disrespecting our nation's military, by ignoring its warnings about external threats to America, as well as by refusing to honor dead hero veterans of world War One because it was raining. I hereby renounce all hope of my becoming a member of his gang of republican planet killers, which means nothing, because I was never really on board to begin with, even though I gave the Don a fair chance.