Business As Usual
For the past six months, the popular meme being promoted by Republicans is that Trump’s administration is representative of “business as usual” – nothing more, nothing less.
So we are supposed to believe that it is “business as usual” for a president to spend his days watching TV, tweeting inane “covfefe” bullshit, and lying his ass off on a 24/7 basis.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to praise our Russian adversaries who, as all of our intelligence community have determined, attempted to undermine our electoral process and our democracy.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to appoint incompetent, inexperienced people to Cabinet positions and other positions of influence.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident – along with his closest advisors and family members – to have to lawyer-up less than six months into his administration, not to mention that those lawyers themselves have to lawyer-up after becoming involved.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to accuse his predecessor of a felony – while offering no evidence whatsoever.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to hand over highly classified information to Russian operatives in a closed-door meeting in the Oval Office.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to dismiss Russian interference as fake news, throw our intelligence agencies under the bus, and then greet the man accused of hacking our election with the words “It’s an honour to be with you.”
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to spend all of his time watching TV and tweeting between golf games.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to insist his daily briefings be reduced to a single page of bullet-points because he can’t comprehend anything beyond that.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to not know the difference between an executive order and a bill.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to use his influence to lift/lessen sanctions against our country’s enemies.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to spend his time in office fixated on whether his inauguration crowd was bigger than his predecessor’s, and trying to prove that millions of “illegal” votes cost him the popular vote.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to lie – repeatedly – about things that are easily debunked.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to have to fire his senior security advisor due to his ties to Russian adversaries, for an attorney general to perjure himself (twice) over meetings with Russians, and for the pResident’s advisors and family members having to “correct” their security clearance documents because they simply “forgot” meetings with Russian operatives.
It is “business as usual” for a pResident to have his clueless daughter take his place at international meetings, and to declare his son’s meetings with Russians offering to assist his father’s bid for the presidency as not important enough to be disclosed, no less discussed.
It looks like we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto – we’re instead in some alternative universe where all of the aforementioned is to be blindly accepted as “business as usual”, and any queries about the man behind the curtain are portrayed as un-American, unpatriotic, and an attempt to undermine a pResidency that has undermined itself on a daily basis.
I look forward to the excuses that will be offered by the GOP when this administration goes down – as it inevitably will. That’s when “business as usual” will suddenly be declared as the oh-so-obvious red flags that NO ONE on the Republican side of the aisle recognized – despite their oh-so-obvious obviousness.
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