Part 2: Not Dicking Around
Later this same day
April 14, 2017
April 14, 2017
He was the best of presidents; he was the worst of
presidents. Not really…he was, in fact
very simply and without exception, the WORST of presidents. The absolute, far-and-away, undisputed WORST
FUCKING PRESIDENT in the history of the United States. This is not one of them ex-ag-ger-a-tions nor
is it an opinion. It is historical
fact…by any measure you care to use. And
there is an abundance, actually an overabundance, of proof. Videotape, audiotape. Digital proof, analogue proof. Verifiable quotes, still photographs. Mental scars, emotional scars, physical
scars. There is no missing the
significance unless you were one of the faithful. Even then, chances are good that the part of
the personal subconscious entwined with the collective unconscious felt the
stinging pain that began at the moment he seized power and ended, with any luck
at the time of their own physical demise.
In addition, it turns out that almost every single presidential
historian concurs: Grand W. Bunch will go down as the worst of the worst. To be sure there have been some doozies since
the birth of this nation and perhaps even one or two almost everyone agrees
were really good ones. But, according to
those whose business it is to study and know about these things, none of the
first forty-two presidents of the United States, individually or as a group,
did as much damage to as many facets of the social and political fabric, not to
mention the emotional well-being and long-term health of our nation and planet,
in as short a period of time and left in his wake more enduring and painful
consequences than did America’s 43rd president.
In fact, the experts are convinced that it would take a concerted effort
with malice of forethought to surpass the Herculean ineptitude displayed by
president #43. And all he ever asked from us was that he not be
“misunderestimated.” That, and an almost fanatical devotion to his woe begotten
agenda.
Silver-tongued doofus
a quick note: This is the best book ever written about George W. Bush, semi-fictitious or otherwise. Nobody knows more about old #43 than the folks here at Paying Attention. Nobody. Believe me. It has the best words. And, the; best punctuation! Grammer and speling not even being something that is being mentioned. But also the best.
One of these is a cardboard cut-out
As I started writing this piece, the object of the title was singular. I had intended to focus (not my forte) on just one war criminal’s legacy: George W. Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq, his condoning and carrying out of torture, extraordinary rendition and the like. All things Chrump aspires to. Then along came the House Intelligence Committee (the oxy-est of morons) and the testimony of election thief James Comey, and his attempt at salvaging his career and reputation after his leading role in causing the election of Don Chrump. Comey came out of his corner swinging for the fences and doubling down on my mixed metaphor, got a huge first down. After attempting the impossible – disabusing the man who looks out upon the world and sees only his own reflection (which he still imagines to be a dashing 35 year old poised to date his own daughter) of his pathetic delusion of being under surveillance by his predecessor – Comey went on to divulge what he should have revealed some eight months earlier, thus saving the entire world from what continues to look like total annihilation. He testified that, “the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts.” Full fucking stop. The FAKE PRESIDENT is not liking this REAL NEWS. Chrump now says he might dump Comey since he was “very, very good to Hillary Clinton.” All the hearing hoopla caused me and many, many people to harken back to another great trial in American presidential history.
One of these is a cardboard cut-out
As I started writing this piece, the object of the title was singular. I had intended to focus (not my forte) on just one war criminal’s legacy: George W. Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq, his condoning and carrying out of torture, extraordinary rendition and the like. All things Chrump aspires to. Then along came the House Intelligence Committee (the oxy-est of morons) and the testimony of election thief James Comey, and his attempt at salvaging his career and reputation after his leading role in causing the election of Don Chrump. Comey came out of his corner swinging for the fences and doubling down on my mixed metaphor, got a huge first down. After attempting the impossible – disabusing the man who looks out upon the world and sees only his own reflection (which he still imagines to be a dashing 35 year old poised to date his own daughter) of his pathetic delusion of being under surveillance by his predecessor – Comey went on to divulge what he should have revealed some eight months earlier, thus saving the entire world from what continues to look like total annihilation. He testified that, “the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts.” Full fucking stop. The FAKE PRESIDENT is not liking this REAL NEWS. Chrump now says he might dump Comey since he was “very, very good to Hillary Clinton.” All the hearing hoopla caused me and many, many people to harken back to another great trial in American presidential history.
According to author and presidential historian Douglas
Brinkley, “There’s a smell of treason in the air. Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or
any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It
would have been a mind-boggling event.” Brinkley added, “This is the most
failed first 100 days of any president. To be as low as he is in the polls, in
the 30s, while the FBI director is on television saying they launched an
investigation into your ties with Russia, I don’t know how it can get much
worse.” I hope Mr. Brinkley is very, very wrong about his last point. Big
league. I would not underestimate Don’s potential to persuade people to find
him despicable.
This brings me back to my eleventh-hour pluralization. One
must assume that another great Republican war criminal must be heaving a
posthumous sigh of relief at having someone make him look a little less loserly
in perspective. Brinkley posited “a smell of treason in the air” and when I smell
treason, I think Richard Nixon. Sure, Nixon ran on ending the Vietnam War,
which he had no intention of doing, and then bombed Cambodia, but that was
during his second term. Chrump will surely do much worse, given the time. At
least with Nixon’s downfall, we saw Democrats and Republicans stand up for the
Constitution and the nation.
Ah, the good old days
Today’s Republican’ts care nothing for either. Nothing. They only care about tax cuts for the richest 1%. Period. One can only hope they pay the price and learn the lessons punching them in the face, after one of the most shameful chapters in their party’s and their nation’s history. As the Nixonesque saying, once Chrump is complete exposed, excoriated and excised, will soon go, “If this president did it, then it must have been illegal.”
Ah, the good old days
Today’s Republican’ts care nothing for either. Nothing. They only care about tax cuts for the richest 1%. Period. One can only hope they pay the price and learn the lessons punching them in the face, after one of the most shameful chapters in their party’s and their nation’s history. As the Nixonesque saying, once Chrump is complete exposed, excoriated and excised, will soon go, “If this president did it, then it must have been illegal.”
I. Mangrey reporting. Fast and furious…mostly furious.
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