I guess I just can’t resist. I just love the morbidity and darkness of all this, and I so love to document my own thoughts and feelings in this little personal grimoire. Love love love watching the horrors unfold.
IDK, I’m not feeling well, since allergies. So, there’s that (and that’s probably a good deal of it), but, still…
So, here it is. Trump is over, it looks like.
Today he was crowing on twitter about how his approval ratings cracked 50%, as though that was some kind of accomplishment. What an idiot.
This country has been brought to the brink of war now on like 3 or 4 separate occasions in the last couple months, and Trump’s approval ratings have barely cracked half. Trump- that is not an accomplishment.
That is, in a word, pathetic. That is sorry as hell, and proof that the idiot’s base has in fact done what I said they did- they’ve abandoned him, already, not even 100 days into things.
How very, very sad. How pitiful. As in, that’s it, we’re sunk, as far the government goes. It’s over, for them and us.
The voters in this country gave Trump a massive favor, and all he has done as “Thanks” in return is ignore us, condescend to us, and work to undermine everything we stand for and believe in.
God damn, does this country’s political class suck. They are all just really, really bad at their jobs. In no way would these clowns survive on their own, in the job market that their subjects face. It’s their money that elevates them- not their skills, and certainly not their intellect. It’s their inherited wealth and “network” that gives them the edge over the rest of us.
Regarding the idiot’s approval ratings- that is a brutal indictment of the system, not just of Trump. Depending on who you ask, Dubya’s approval ratings hovered around 75-85% when he launched missile strikes against Iraq in 2003.
And speaking of Dubya, after 9/11, his approval ratings were at something like 95%. And before 9/11, he was regarded as a lame duck and unpopular president, although his ratings were a little higher than Trump’s are, today. And even with all that, he left office as probably the most hated man to ever step foot in it.
Trump- heed my warnings, here. You have A LOT of ground to cover, very very fast, if you want to avoid a monumental disaster. For starters, you must make MASSIVE and historically unprecedented overtures to your base if you want to keep what remains of it. What you have given us to this date is flat-out insulting at best.
For starters, immigration. It’s bad. All of it. There is no such thing as “good” immigration, and there never will be as long as I live. ALL immigrants, regardless of origin or intent, are a problem that needs to be “fixed”.
And the rest of it. The public is beyond tired of these stupid wars. Diminishing returns come into play, here. I mean, holy shit, it’s taken like the threat of World War III to create a minor uptick in Trump’s approval ratings. That card has been played out. It’s tapped out; it’s done, finished. No longer will any politician be able to dodge his responsibilities by just lazily throwing a few missiles at somebody that the public probably respects more than their own leaders, anyways.
Trump’s agenda is domestic ONLY, and it is ONLY domestic policy that will affect him and his approval ratings appreciably. To that end, he needs to produce 4 years of very, very strong gains in all things for his base. And as I’ve pointed out Ad nauseam, what he has done as of this date is nowhere near the ballpark of being acceptable.
I’m going to bed, now, on account of the allergies and such. But I want to close this out by saying that it may be a good idea to shelve liberalism for a generation to get all of these huge problems worked out. Can’t be more eloquent that than that right now.
*sigh*…