I miss Obama so much! This video of him endorsing Joe Biden reminds me we actually had a president who was articulate, compassionate, professional, mature and presidential. Gone are those days! This video brought tears to my eyes:
VOTE NOVEMBER 2020 and RESTORE DECENCY and DEMOCRACY
Hopefully in the next seven months Presidunce Dump won't end up killing us with his bad behavior, bad advice, zero knowledge, and neverending poor job performance! Have you ever heard of a president who plays politics with the lives of people by preferring red states over blue states, uses important pandemic briefings to promote himself and insult reporters, or announces people should be injected with disinfectant??? What an atrocity! GO BIDEN!
Donald Trump spent the last year spouting hate and violence. He spent the last month screaming about a rigged election determined to incite his rabble into action should he lose. Now he's wondering why people are protesting. He's wondering why his followers are attacking immigrants or people of color. His response is to scream at them. Why not? Reckless, unprofessional behavior got him elected. The man knows so little about the office to which he's been elected and to say he is unfit to be president is an understatement. If it wasn't so horrifying, it might be really entertaining, but four years of his incompetence and hate-mongering sounds like the ultimate nightmare. It's bad enough I'm a woman who must now tolerate the misogynistic values symbolic of his ascension, but I am afraid for all the Muslims and Hispanics he's threatened to deport, the African Americans and gays he's disenfranchised, the sexual assault victims he's threatened to sue, and the disabled he thoughtlessly bullied. This is a man who believes he can do whatever he wants with impunity. The fear this man has created disgusts me. I would like to believe this is NOT WHO WE ARE, but obviously I was wrong. About one fourth of the American population voted for this pig which isn't many, but because of that rigged electoral college he wins. Most voted for Clinton but our system is so archaic it doesn't work. This election has defied all the values we teach as a civilized society. I for one am thankful I don't have children or grandchildren. I wouldn't know what to tell them.
Lessons from the Election
Lesson #1: You don't have to work hard to get ahead if you have a rich daddy. Lesson #2: You don't have to have any political knowledge or years of experience and expertise to become president of the United States, only Russian connections and a lot of brain dead followers. Lesson #3: Lying con-artists don't go to jail, they win. Lesson #4: Bullies aren't held accountable for their bad behavior, they win. Lesson #5: White, ugly rich men with supremacist leanings are no longer considered scourges of society, they win. Lesson #6: Any lowlife with little intelligence can be president. Lesson #7: Women are to be objectified, mistreated, and used for entertainment. Lesson #8: Most of America is stupid, racist, sexist and gullible. Lesson #9: Morality is obsolete. Why care the president has been married multiple times, has extra-marital affairs (with 13 year old girls), or his third wife is a nudie model? How many First Ladies can you see naked online? Wow. Lesson #10: Respect and etiquette are no longer required. It's every [white] man for himself.
Gregg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, very eloquently expressed what the better half the American population are feeling:
“Right now I’m just trying to formulate thoughts. It’s too early. I’m just sick to my stomach. Not basically because the Republicans won or anything, but the disgusting tenure and tone and all of the comments that have been xenophobic, homophobic, racist, misogynistic.
“I live in that country where half of the people ignored all of that to elect someone. That’s the scariest part of the whole thing to me. It’s got nothing to do with the environment and Obamacare, and all of the other stuff. We live in a country that ignored all of those values that we would hold our kids accountable for. They’d be grounded for years if they acted and said the things that have been said in that campaign by Donald Trump. […]
“The fact that people can just gloss that over, start talking about the transition team, and we’re all going to be kumbaya now and try to make the country good without talking about any of those things. And now we see that he’s already backing off of immigration and Obamacare and other things, so was it a big fake, which makes you feel it’s even more disgusting and cynical that somebody would use that to get the base that fired up. To get elected. And what gets lost in the process are African Americans, and Hispanics, and women, and the gay population, not to mention the eighth grade developmental stage exhibited by him when he made fun of the handicapped person. I mean, come on. That’s what a seventh grade, eighth grade bully does. And he was elected president of the United States. We would have scolded our kids. We would have had discussions until we were blue in the face trying to get them to understand these things. He is in charge of our country. That’s disgusting.”
A reporter then interrupted him.
“I’m not done,” Popovich said. “One could go on and on, we didn’t make this stuff up. He’s angry at the media because they reported what he said and how he acted. That’s ironic to me. It makes no sense. So that’s my real fear, and that’s what gives me so much pause and makes me feel so badly that the country is willing to be that intolerant and not understand the empathy that’s necessary to understand other group’s situations. I’m a rich white guy, and I’m sick to my stomach thinking about it. I can’t imagine being a Muslim right now, or a woman, or an African American, a Hispanic, a handicapped person. How disenfranchised they might feel. And for anyone in those groups that voted for him, it’s just beyond my comprehension how they ignore all of that. My final conclusion is, my big fear is — we are Rome.”
Yep. Caligula's Rome.
Communities are seeing more racially-motivated violence, schools are experiencing more bullying, suicide hotline calls have doubled, and the Ku Klux Klan are marching. Then there are the children of our country traumatize because a BULLY has been elected president and schools are hiring grief counselors to help them cope with the stress. Children of immigrants are in a panic believing when they get home from school they'll find their parents deported. All this trauma has been labeled, "The Trump Effect." The Rapist President must be really proud! Trump's promise of Making America Great Again, sold and swindled to the gullible ignorant, is a lie. In a recent interview, the slime bag was asked if his campaign rhetoric went too far and his response, "No. I won." He cares very little for the fear and turmoil he's caused or the people he is expected to lead. What a self-centered jerk. Let the legacy begin.
Trump is Caligula reincarnated.
Caligula's reign of terror lasted for four years. Hitler was in power for twelve years. I can't decide if Trump is more like Hitler or more like Caligula since they all had/have the same agenda. Is it the same evil soul reincarnated over and over again? Sadly through the ignorance of people, history repeats itself. Civilization will suffer and years of multicultural tolerance, women's rights, and environmental protection will be rolled back a century. So sad.
The Orange Man
Leader of Deplorables
Demagogue of Temper Tantrums
We in America, land of the free, home of the brave, are winding down to the end of a really unprecedented, disgustingly ugly election campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Last year my international readers asked me about Donald Trump and if he was for real. My response was he is using his money and celebrity to follow his dreams. There is nothing wrong with that. It's the American way. Or maybe he's really a Democrat and his goal was to destroy the Republicans? Anyway, it sounded like a bad joke and few seemed to take him seriously. However, I was absolutely convinced he'd never get to past the primaries. Americans aren't THAT stupid! Are they?
Now, I know a majority of Americans are stupid. Case in point, most refuse to stop using their toxic, poisonous products that put the rest of us at risk. They smoke, drink, eat junk food, lay around watching reality television and wonder why the health care system is failing. They shop for cheap Chinese-made products from Walmart instead of supporting our country and purposely suck the life out of the welfare system instead of getting a job and paying taxes like real Americans do. Or worse, they have a job and refuse to pay taxes.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the incredibly ignorant, I assumed they would be too stupid to get off their couches, read and educate themselves on the issues, then take the time to go to the trouble to vote for an arrogant, sexist, racist, power-crazed, morally-depraved sociopath with no political experience. Well, I was wrong. They don't have to move off the couch, or make any effort at all, or read, or understand anything. They really don't even have to care about the issues. They just had to lay around watching their televisions, drool over their reality show celebrity and listen to his negative rhetoric because his anger and aggression is what they understand. He calls to them. When Hillary Clinton said half of Trump's followers were deplorables, she was wrong. They are ALL deplorables. The deplorables are so low class and stupid they see this as a compliment. She tried to cover her faux-pas by blaming this on Trump. Again, I disagree. These people are the bottom of the barrel. Trump didn't make them disgusting, stupid, entitled and angry, he just gave them a voice.
So Donald Trump is the Republican candidate and we have been forced through these last months to listen to his disrespectful rants, undemocratic threats, and bullish insults. He has no clue about the issues and can't even articulate his ideas well as he infuses them with temper tantrums to camouflage his confusion and frustration. His understanding of the democratic process is comical. He believes his money and notoriety is enough to catapult him into a position of ultimate power. He feels entitled like his rabble. His uneducated, white-trash followers think he's going to do what he says and keep his promises. HA! Many Republicans won't support him and the Religious Right has backed away from him. He is the fault of a Republican Party that is so screwed up it can't even nominate a proper candidate. Experience should be the minimum requirement. Who hires someone for a job with no experience?
We are seeing a lot of rebuttal as the Clinton campaign is pulling out the big guns...Barack and Michelle Obama. Michelle's speeches are mesmerizing. She's my new idol. She brings tears to my eyes. If she ever runs for president, I'd vote for her! I doubt if she has ever sexually assaulted anyone.
Just a week before the election, a super-PAC organization began a campaign against Trump called Not Who We Are. You can read about that HERE. Lots of rich, silicon-valley entrepreneurs banning together to try to make a difference at the last minute. They have produced a test called Is Trump Your Fault? He's definitely someones fault. However, according to my test score
I AM TREMENDOUSLY INNOCENT!
I'm not surprised, but it was fun taking the test anyway. I want a t-shirt with these words on it. However, even though I am innocent I am also tremendously embarrassed at the stupidity of my countrymen and women as the international world watches. The Orange Man is determined to Make America a Laughingstock.
In many ways it is amazing someone with absolutely no political experience (and no morals) could actually get this far when so many viable politicians couldn't, but it's also frightening a sex offender could be our next president. How did that happen, you ask? We didn't take him seriously. We didn't understand the power of the low class rabble. This is how Hitler got elected. This is history repeating itself. Same negative, hateful rhetoric appealing to star-struck brainless voters who felt neglected and abused by the system, and a candidate who wants to disenfranchise minorities to give power to his misguided fans. It's definitely been a nauseating, oops!, I mean, interesting campaign experience.
I am lucky in my area we get our ballots through the mail. I can't imagine having to wait in line with a bunch of smelly people for up to four hours just to vote. Do any of you have to wait in long lines? How do you cope? What do you do to survive the onslaught of toxic exposure?
Support the democratic process and vote!
Unless you are voting for the sex offender...then veg out on your couch watching Celebrity Apprentice reruns, eat your Cheese-puffs,and forget to head to the polls. They are crowded anyway.
Hooray Obama! He gets four more years to fight the Republicans. I still have no idea why anyone would have voted for Romney. I read one article about Romney bullying kids at his prep school. There was one incident where he cornered a boy, held him down, and cut off his hair just because he didn't like his hair style. That was just the tip of the iceberg. I've never heard anything like that about Obama, true or not. The best the Republicans could come up with was he wasn't an American citizen.
But mandatory health insurance...hmmmm. Not so excited about that, but at least it's SOMETHING. At least someone is attempting the change the incredibly bad health care system we have in the United States. Although I'm not excited about being forced to pay money to a sleazy corporation for my health care, I am hopeful the system will evolve into something better. I am hopeful this may eventually move toward universal health care so everyone can be covered without paying a corporation.
As it is I don't have health insurance. At times it worries me. What happens if I get in an accident? I spent a lot of time on my roof this summer. Suppose I would have fallen off? I had a friend break his ankle a few years ago. He had that catastrophic insurance coverage so it cost him $5,000 to have it fixed at the hospital. Without that insurance, he said it would have been about $40,000. The cost of health care in this country is an atrocity.
What happens if I get sick? Illness tends to happen the older you get. It's just a matter of time before one of my body parts decides to give out. I'm relying on my healthy dietary practices, exercise, good habits, and lack of bad habits to get me through. Crossing my fingers. Without health insurance, one bad accident or one catastrophic illness could render me bankrupt. I'd lose everything. It's a worry.
I am looking forward to some of the changes we might see with the mandatory insurance starting in 2014. For instance, the insurance companies won't be able to deny health coverage due to pre-existing conditions. The pre-existing condition clauses in the health insurance contracts always worry me. Michael Moore's movie Sicko addresses the problem of sleazy insurance corporations working hard to find loop holes so if you do need care, they will find ways to deny your claims.
The best election joke I heard was David Letterman asking President Obama what he would tell people who were suffering from Romnesia.
He replied, "Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions."
HAHAHAHAHA!!
But insurance companies not covering pre-existing conditions irritates me to no end and it's my number one reason for not getting insurance. I find it really difficult to pay money into a very bad system.
Other reasons I don't have insurance:
I like my money. Insurance is expensive.
I don't like doctors. I can't find a doctor in my area that doesn't stink of chemicals. I've had doctors tell me to go away because they wear perfume and will continue to do so. The stupidity astounds me. Doctors are disappointing. With regard to chemical sensitivity, most of them don't have a clue so what would I be paying for? I don't see the point.
I know with our system the way it is it's not smart to not have insurance. I'm taking a risk.
Oh well, I've always been a risk-taker.
Here's an hilarious take on Romney's concession speech:
