Corrections
Having heard Republican spokes-whores all day today after Senator Jeff Flake’s remarks on the Senate floor, I feel a few “corrections” are in order.
Donald Trump does not have “a problem with the truth”. He is not prone to mis-stating the facts. He does not “speak from a different perspective”. He is not “telling it like it is” – he is telling it like it isn’t. He is a liar, pure and simple.
Donald Trump is not governing in “his own unique style”. He is not a “different kind of leader”. He is not “shaking up DC politics”. He is not “fighting the ‘establishment’ for the betterment of the citizenry”. He is – to borrow an apt term – a fucking moron who has absolutely NO idea what he’s doing.
Donald Trump is not a “strong, forceful leader”. He’s an ignorant bully. He is not “appealing to the populace”, he is appealing to his base – the bigots, the racists, the misogynists, the ill-informed, and those who are as stupid as he is.
Donald Trump does not reflect what “the majority of Americans who put him in office” think or believe. The fact is that the majority of Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, NOT Trump.
Donald Trump is not “rightfully fighting back” when he tells lies about those who oppose him. He is lying – yet again – because tweeting lies and engaging in petty personal disputes is the only thing a fucking moron knows how to do.
Donald Trump is not “trying to move the country forward”. He is trying to move the country backwards to a time when women’s rights, gay/lesbian rights, minority rights, and the rights of the disabled are not only diminished, but are mocked.
Donald Trump is not “pursuing a great agenda on behalf of the American people” – unless you believe the American people want their taxes raised in order to give tax breaks to the wealthy, want their affordable Obamacare to be replaced with a program that leaves millions with NO healthcare, want war with North Korea and Iran, want the First Amendment to be rescinded at the whim of a blatant liar, and want facts to be completely ignored when inconvenient to that blatant liar.
In view of the responses of Republicans to Jeff Flake’s remarks today, it becomes even more obvious – as though it weren’t already obvious enough – that the GOP will DO anything and SAY anything, no matter how ludicrous, to protect and defend a lying, racist, pussy-grabber who spends more time tweeting covfefe and playing golf than he devotes to the duties and responsibilities of his office.
Donald Trump is a PROVEN LIAR – and he has been proven a liar over and over again. That’s a fact that Republicans not only refuse to address, but refuse to even acknowledge.
As to the “reasoning” the Republicans keep profferring – the idea that their own constituents are behind Trump a hundred percent – they have yet to explain why this “popular pResident’s” approval ratings keep sinking. It would seem glaringly apparent that the liar-in-chief is far less popular than Republicans would have us believe – but then when it comes to the GOP, truthfulness left the building a long time ago.
When a political party embraces lies as truth, embraces “alternative facts” rather than actual facts, and promotes the concept that lying to the American people on a daily basis is somehow a matter of “presidential prerogative”, it’s time for that party to be called out for what it is – a party completely devoid of morals, decency, patriotism, and concern for the country they purport to hold so dear.
Collaboration with the enemy was harshly dealt with in the aftermath of WWII. If I were a Republican with political ambitions, I'd keep that in mind.
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Keep speaking truth to power.
