Wow.
That was a bit strong, wasn't it? Apologies if you were offended by
my last post and its graphic imagery. After all, the point of running
a blog is to attract readers, not repel them.
And
yet, how else to describe a man so hateful? A man so wantonly arrogant? Donald Trump reminds me of a remark made by Dorothy
Parker, wherein she opined that when she wonders what God thinks of
money, she looks at who he gave it to.
Sadly,
our president is an answer only for those who reckoned the best solution to
congressional constipation was a bigger asshole.
Like
the wild-eyed terrorist that he is, Donald Trump again expressed
his willingness to drive the car of the United States off the cliff
in order to get what he wants. So the passengers suffer a little
collateral damage—what's that compared to a needy president
having his brittle self-esteem restored?
To
wit, the object of Don's latest tantrum is the border wall. You know,
the one that Mexico is going to pay for?
Oh
wait—they're not.
At
any rate, President Donnie's latest plan to fund the wall that
Mexico-was-going-to-pay-for-but-isn't is to threaten a shut-down of
the government. This transparent-as-glass ploy is intended to scare
Congress into appropriating funding for Donnie's Wall in order to
avoid a politically risky shut-down.
Being
no stranger to power plays, Congress is (thankfully) resisting.
In
his Twitter-steria, the terrorist President must've forgotten about
his Labor Department's plans to roll back the salaried overtime
extensions enacted by President Obama, which blunted corporate
America's favorite payroll strategy: Put 'em on salary and treat 'em
like a rental car!
Gosh,
Don. Wouldn't the money your pals in the executive suite save on
overtime fund the wall?
Oh
that's right—you're committed to wealthcare. Making billionaires out
of millionaires, and trillionaires out of billionaires. And how's
that going to happen if you use their no-overtime windfall to fund
your wall?
Silly,
stupid me.
On
top of desiring to poison the water you drink and the air you breathe
and the ground you live on because keeping them clean is costing
corporate America too much money, tell me how you feel about
President Donnie wanting to take your overtime, too.
Making
America Great Again? For who?
Face
it. Donald Trump is a compound word. He is a drug-resistant
hemorrhoid. He is the tiny stone you can never quite remove from your
shoe. He distracts you and baits you with your anger and your hatred
while he steals from you and gifts the one-percent with the proceeds.
Please
tell me again why you think he gives the tiniest, infinitesimal fuck
about you?
I'll say it again: You're
a tool, bro.
Your
enemy isn't the woman on the west side of Chicago trying to raise six
errant kids with medicaid and food stamps, or the Mexican sleeping
under a filthy sheet of cardboard in the Sonoran Desert, exhausted
and left starving by their brutal trip into America.
It's
that sneering, orange-haired billionaire in the White House. Pray he uses condoms.
