Charles P. Pierce: A Plea for a President

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a12816114/obama-america-not-real-trump/


A Plea for a President
It is time for Barack Obama to join the Trump Resistance full-time.
By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 11, 2017

Boundless intemperance/In nature is a tyranny; it hath been/The untimely emptying of the happy throne/And fall of many kings.

—Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III

Now that we have a brief break in the action, and the Secretary of State has had his lunch with the president* whom the Secretary of State declines to deny once having called a “fucking moron,” let us review Tuesday’s other White House highlights, shall we?

The president* tweeted out an attack on both ESPN and ESPN presenter Jemele Hill, whom ESPN suspended after she told the truth about the NFL and the media, that "change happens when advertisers are impacted." The president* tweeted out an attack on the National Football League, because there are a lot of black players in that league, and because many of them do not like watching other black people killed by police officers. The president* also turned the Schoolyard Sneer function of the electric Twitter machine up to 11 in order to fire one off at “Liddle” Senator Bob Corker, who’d pointed out in an interview that there is a desperate need for padding on the Oval Office walls.

While all this was going on, and the president*’s interest was fully engaged in these pressing national emergencies, northern California was burning down. Most of Puerto Rico was still without power and safe drinking water. Kim Jong-un was still nuttier than he is, by a hair, anyway. And the administrator of the EPA—with whom Bob Corker had no problem whatsoever, by the way—was preparing to reverse a plan put in place by the previous administration to cope with the climate crisis that probably has a lot to do with why northern California is aflame, and why Puerto Rico is as thirsty as a prisoner in Sheriff David Clarke’s jail, and why there’s another damn hurricane forming out in the Atlantic. This is because the EPA administrator doesn’t believe the climate crisis is real and because the president* doesn’t know shit from tunafish about anything.

Anyway, that was all before breakfast on a Tuesday, in the second week of the 10th month of the first year of his presidency. Something has to be done.

It’s time, Mr. President.

No, not you. The other guy.