The key takeaway here is that Trump refuses to extend even the tiniest of olive branches to anyone not a part of the government.
The oil companies ARE the government. It’s not a coincidence that our recent history includes a litany of Presidents and Vice-Presidents that have had extensive ties to oil. Rockefeller, of course, the two Bushes and Cheney. And the Clintons owe a debt to the Rockefellers for their political careers as well. They came up through the Arkansas Democratic machine that was headed by, who else, a Rockefeller.
So of course the oil companies get their way on everything.
And the veterans get their way as well, and so do the police.
But what about the people who AREN’T a member of the government? What do they get from Trump?
They get nothing at best.
It is telling that their needs are most obvious, and the most easily fulfilled, and yet they get nothing.
All they want is a wall. Literally, that’s it. A fucking wall.
Overall, of course they want a reduction in other kinds of immigration. But right now, they want a wall.
And they ain’t getting it, or anything even close to it, or even a hint that there might be something close to it coming up in the future, at some theoretical point in time.
Everyone else gets everything they want, but Trump’s actual base is treated as though they should feel lucky if their needs even get a mention from anyone associated with the government on any level.
It’s sick, and obvious proof that the government here doesn’t try anymore to even look like a democracy.
At any rate, I think I’m done for today. We’ll see what horrors tomorrow brings.