A Journey to the Center of Trumpistan (With apologies to Jules Verne)

Have you ever watched one of those movies in which a brave protagonist risks taking a new, untested potion or goes into the unfinished time machine against the warnings of colleagues?

“You can’t!  It hasn’t been tested.  You could die or come out of it horribly damaged.”

But the hero proceeds, despite entreaties and comes out of the experience exhausted and dazed with a profound change in his personality. 

Recently I had just such an experience.  A fellow on a liberal Facebook page had posted that he was going to troll a pro-Trump page and correct spelling errors.  Right off I concluded that the task would be like fishing with sticks of dynamite.  I mean really, where is the sport?

But his post did inspire me to explore the page myself.  I knew that there would be inherent dangers in this kind of a mission.  I could conceivably return from my journey a changed man; an evangelist perhaps; or maybe suspicious of foreign headgear like the dreaded hijab.  I might emerge with a belief that the Earth is only 6000 years old – and flat as a billiard table.  And I might return with a hatred for the Chinese for hatching that global warming hooey.

And then there would be the physical risks.  There was always the chance of my sides being completely split asunder from laughter or permanent neck damage from repetitive head shaking.  But I damned those risks and determined that I would take A JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TRUMPISTAN!

Chaos

Well what should we call it?  Over the last couple days I’ve heard; shit show, train wreck, a mess, chaos, turmoil and unprepared.  How about fucked up?  The first week of the Donnie Trump roadshow was rocky to say the least. And then last Friday things really got screwy.  But maybe we should cut our POTUS a little slack.  After all, Trump is used to starring in television shows.  Getting the lead role in the whole world isn’t something you master overnight.  Maybe Trump and cast just need a few takes.  There’s only one problem here, the Presidency isn’t a TV show.  In this job you don’t get dress rehearsals.  In this job when take one goes in the toilet a lot of other things get caught up in the vortex of crap and go down the sewer with it. You don’t get to say “Cut,” and then do take two.  

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Trumptrocities of Note

* More assaults on the First Amendment

                The Trump Administration, in the form of attack dog and white supremacist Steve Bannon, issues a statement calling the media the “opposition party,” and warning that the media should “keep its mouth shut.”

                Donald Trump turned to Twitter (again) to denounce the New York Times and The Washington Post.  “Thr coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers.”

“FAKE NEWS!” 

It would be a little less embarrassing if this guy would use spell check. 

There doesn’t seem to be any specific event or article that set him off this time.  I suppose he was sitting on the shitter with nothing else to do and…well…had a little extra shit to get rid of.

* Endangered Species Act and endangered species.  While no specific action has yet been taken, The Endangered Species Act is in the crosshairs of the GOP. Why you ask? Because, silly rabbit, those pesky animals are getting in the way of big business making money.  This is a Trumptrocity to look for in the near future.

*The Trumptrocity piece de resistance however is:

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Remember the date Friday, January 27^th 2017.

On that date Donald Trump signed an executive order banning nationals of 7 Muslim countries from entering the United States.  Those countries are; Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

This ban will last at least 90 days. 

On that date in the same executive order Donald Trump banned indefinitely, the entry of those fleeing from war-torn Syria.

On that date America turned off the beacon of hope and plunged America further into a bleak blackness of hate and bigotry and Islamophobia. 

On that date America took another step backward in a new retreat back to the bad old days.