Sighinide

Just to follow up on what I’ve been writing recently: I have never seen a politician become so alienated, so quickly and throughly, from his own base as what I have seen regarding Trump.

It’s scary. Read the comments section today at any formerly pro-Trump website, like Breitbart. Trump has already lost the support of his base. And the general consensus is that these guys are never coming back. They’re going to “check out” of the United States, after this disappointment. And this is A LOT of people. Breitbart is ranked #54 on the Alexa charts for the most popular websites in the United States. It is the most popular conservative website in the US, if not the most popular politically-focused website overall.

Or if not Breitbart, read the comments on any other conservative news aggregator.

For Trump, it looks like it’s over. Three months into his Presidency, and that’s it, for him.

He has lost way too much support, all at once.

This whole mess is simply beyond comprehension.

Back in November, Trump won a historically unprecedented landslide victory over Hillary. And he was given both houses in Congress and the vast majority of Governorships. To put that particular advantage into perspective, there are more than two times the number of Republican Governors as there are Democratic Governors.

And today, less than three months into his term, Trump has permanently lost the support of his base, and is looking like the most hopeless lame-duck politician ever.

Trump, WTF are you doing?

This stuff spells doom, people.

I want to reiterate the very important point, here, which is that the oligarchy is out of time. Millions of non-government jobs are needed, and they are needed this year.

And that kind of thing can only be created by immediate and massive changes in policy, such as closing off the US from ALL immigration, regardless of circumstance.

The politicians here do not understand that this is not business as usual. This is a crisis situation that can only be rectified with huge and unprecedented changes in the structure of the country. The common thinking must be put aside. All plans for the future must be shelved, immediately, until the current set of problems are fixed. And oligarch heads MUST roll, or this is the end, of everything. Of the life that people (everyone) has had, here, since the end of WWII.

And this may is the last, final chance to avoid a major and horrific, and perhaps unending, internal war. To ignore the obvious at this point may be to enter into a period of unpredictable consequences and violence and instability that may never end.

We are staring into the abyss here, guys.

Team Trump: It’s the economy, stupids!

I can’t stress this enough, so I’m going to do it again, and again and again, until some nugget of truth penetrates your thick skulls and buries itself in your little brains.

Trump, your infrastructure plans will never fly in this environment. The problem we have is not a lack of infrastructure, it is a lack of JOBS and crucially MONEY, because your friends and yourself are fucking HOARDING ALL OF IT.

Trump, what good is an infrastructure project going to do in this environment? Leaving besides the obvious problem of the US government being far too indebted to pay for such a thing, who is actually going to use the infrastructure that is going to be built?

What good is a road if people lack the money to pay for gasoline to use it? What good is a store if nobody has money enough to shop there?

Trump, the United States is filled with beautiful infrastructure that is laying dormant and decaying because people lack the funds to use it.

Look at the retail apocalypse that is all over the news these days. Yes Trump, LOOK AT IT. Do you know what is causing this? I’ll give you a hint: read everything above this sentence, slowly and carefully. It’s OK; I’ll wait.

Trump, I want you to THINK about what I said about gasoline. That is not a throwaway comment. I want you to think about why people are driving far less miles in their cars in total than they used to, even as the population of the country continues to climb. And no, it’s not because YouTube and Netflix are so gosh darn entertaining. It’s because driving in many cases is a luxury, and when people are suffering from a severe lack of discretionary funds, as most people in this country are, they’re going to cut back on driving as much as they can.

Trump, you are doing things in the wrong order, as usual. Infrastructure is something that emerges naturally from a healthy, working economy. *Forcing* it on a country that obviously cannot afford it, during a time when few besides the rich can use it anyways, is not a bright idea.

The price of oil reflects this. The world can see plainly that the US government is pushing it up as much as possible on orders from the banks. Without this support, it would crater due to a severe lack of demand, because people aren’t driving anywhere here, anymore. Why the hell would they? How can they? And with that in mind, why are we thinking that more roads are going to fix anything at this point?

I can’t stress enough how dumbly wrongheaded your plans and policies are, Trump. And I mean all of them.

WTH are you doing with North Korea, Trump? That is not *our* problem, you doofus! Why are you so concerned about defending the border between North and South Korea, anyways? There is a massive border crisis right here, in your own country, which you already know about, yet are clearly too lazy to bother fixing!

And again, this stupidity about Syria just boggles the mind. I cannot believe that we’re inching into yet another one of these stupid, nonsensical, idiotic wars. Honestly, the fact that such a thing is even on the table as a possibility at this point is so irresponsible it and of itself is grounds for impeachment.

Every major military foray into the Middle East since 9/11 has been a debacle for this country, and everyone knows it and can see it plainly, except for apparently the fool in the White House and his cronies.

In no way is any military action against Syria acceptable behavior from any US President at this point, concerning our recent history.

Did we learn *nothing* from the Afghanistan debacle? Or the Iraq one? Trump, I’m looking at you here! You, the one who claimed to know more about ISIS then the generals in the US military.

Why oh why oh why are we even thinking about military action in Syria, let alone talking about it?

And this Trumpcare shit. Ugh, WHY? And the tax plan. WHY? WTH are you doing, Trump?

Trump, you have three things to do:

1) Reduce immigration by any means possible.

2) Rein in Wall Street, so that they are not given unfair, civilization crippling advantages over other industries.

3) Work as closely with Putin as possible, so that the US is not left out in the cold after Russia takes over as the world’s pre-eminent nation, after the government here takes it’s long overdue tumble into irrelevance and global mockery.

Any deviation from these three things is a deviation from your path.

Do NOT disappoint me!

Trump’s approval ratings are continuing to sink. That isn’t the problem. The problem is that Trump is doing everything in his power to help that process along.

Oh, GOD. More bad, bad, bad news in the last few days coming from the Trump camp. Now, he’s getting aggressive with North Korea, AND Syria. Jesus Christ!

Trump……I can’t even, at this point.

I have a question for people. Is Trump trying to sink the government on purpose? Is this some kind of sabotage? If so, it’s brilliant. If not, it’s… unfathomable.

I simply cannot believe what I’m seeing coming out of the White House these days. Trump’s administration is just truly vile. He is in fact worse than Obama, who was the previous worst president ever since Dubya left office.

My God, they just keep getting worse!!! It’s baffling. Every time you think they’ve hit rock bottom, you realize that they’ve yet more ground to dig. It’s just amazing. It really is.

Trump’s approval ratings are horrifically bad, right now, for an incumbent president. You would think that he would actually try to do something about this, you really would, but that isn’t the name of the game here. In this country, the oligarchs must come first, regardless of consequence or cost. Their needs aren’t just paramount, their needs are in fact the only needs that exist, here.

So, we’re getting war, apparently, in the Middle East. Yes, AGAIN.

HOLY SHIT.

You know… I just can’t, at this point. I don’t know what to say, or do, that could change things, or make any of this mess anything close to salvageable.

It’s just… unbelievable.

You would have thought, at this point, that Trump would have paid attention to the fact that our economy is melting down- if not actually done something about it. But no, no. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

The best we’ve gotten from him is more collusion from the people that destroyed the economy in the first place.

This week, Trump met with a bunch of his oligarch buddies (this time, business leaders) and they had a “round table” discussion chiefly to deflect responsibility and to publicly pretend to care about having an interest in seeing this country thrive, and in seeing that people here actually have a chance at gainful, non-humiliating employment.

These “round table” discussions about economics are one of the time-honored tools of the oligarchy that can’t help but fall flat in the current environment. I remember back in high school that Clinton used to have those things. Nothing positive came from those, either.

The oligarchs that Trump invited to discuss things obviously do not care one iota about jobs in this country. You can tell because of their actions. For something like the last ten years, the US oligarchs have spent their money on things like stock buybacks in their own companies. Back when this country had a future, what would happen is that wealthy people would spend their excess cash on their actual businesses- by buying equipment, inventing new kinds of product, hiring workers, offering incentives to their employees, and things like that.

Even the robber barons of the 20’s used to make it a point to “give back”, somehow, at least some of their wealth and experience to the public.

But to people like Bezos, things such as I just described are as foreign as the air on Mars. People like him just exist elsewhere. It’s like, they don’t “get it” to such an extent that nobody even expects them to know what normal, compassionate human behavior is like. They’re just out there, doing whatever it is that they do, far, far from reality.

And so, to deflect blame even further, we’re getting another dumb war in the Middle East, and more dumb talk about wiretapping, as if anyone has even given a fuck about any of that.

Those are the kinds of things- small wars, and meaningless spats between plutocrats- that are enjoyable when the basic things, like jobs and purchasable housing and such, are available to the great mass of people.

You will know when things are changing for the better once the stock market crashes, and/or dies, so the money will go elsewhere- say, into the hands of people that will actually use it for something, as opposed to people like Bezos or Trump who will never spend it at all and just dumbly sit on it for the rest of their lives.

This stuff… isn’t working. Trump is looking exactly right now like I thought he would when I envisioned a worst-case scenario for his Presidency. He’s looking like the emblem of a failed government, and a failed economy, if not of a failed country altogether.

No good is going to come from any of this, ever. Words cannot express how disappointed I and the rest of John-Q public is in our “leaders” and how they have utterly failed on every level we can imagine to make life better for anyone else.

The US government is truly the worst and ugliest government in the world right now. People like Trump, Obama and Bezos are making the rest of us ashamed to be American.

It is mind-boggling how horrid our leadership actually is. Compare the mood of the country now, with what it was 20 years ago. It’s just unfathomable how far we’ve fallen in such a short amount of time.

There really is no way out of this, at this point.

Ah, well. We had a nice run, while it lasted.