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Monday, April 03, 2017

Our Dishonest President

“It is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation.”

Not really funny, but this is the exact same thing I thought when the man The Economist Magazine identified as having the most liberal voting record in Congress, Obama was elected. I still have that copy of the magazine. 

It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.”

Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck. Like millions of other Americans, we clung to a slim hope that the new president would turn out to be all noise and bluster, or that the people around him in the White House would act as a check on his worst instincts, or that he would be sobered and transformed by the awesome responsibilities of office.

Instead, seventy-some days in — and with about 1,400 to go before his term is completed — it is increasingly clear that those hopes were misplaced.

In a matter of weeks, President Trump has taken dozens of real-life steps that, if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all.

His attempt to de-insure millions of people who had finally received healthcare coverage and, along the way, enact a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich has been put on hold for the moment. But he is proceeding with his efforts to defang the government’s regulatory agencies and bloat the Pentagon’s budget even as he supposedly retreats from the global stage.“It is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation.”

8 comments:

  1. So...we've got another newspaper that endorsed Hillary Clinton for President last November, is writing another "hair on fire" story about how bad President Trump.

    Nothing new here.

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    1. How could our education system get any worse? Look at wcboe. No speakie English and the hallways are combat zones

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  2. LA SLimes

    LOL

    They are Fake News

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  3. Nothing will match up to the damage Hussein Obama inflicted.

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  4. "Foul Rivers"???... you mean like the EPA did in Colorado in 2015??

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  5. It's amazing what one can see while filly blindfolded!

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  6. The Dishonest one was OBAMA !!! LOck him Up !!! Hillary TOO !!!

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  7. Fake News from Clueless Snowflakes...

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