One thing that seems consistent re: media coverage of Trump is that look – maybe strict collusion is difficult to prove. And maybe you’ve gotta go pretty far down to say someone’s a racist. And maybe you can hem and haw as to whether his public, on-the-record comments about sexual assault are jokey locker-room fun times or evidence that he’s an abusive piece of shit. And maybe you don’t care that he appears to have paid a porn star, among potentially multiple women, to cover up affairs he had while his new wife was pregnant with, or had just delivered his youngest child.
There are a lot of things you *could* say are the final straw. There are a lot of ways you could interpret these things and say, “Maybe there’s some extenuating circumstance, or maybe he meant it this way instead of that way…”
But you know what? That’s not what I want in a President. That’s not what I want in a leader.
In my *job*, I won’t tolerate a leader who doesn’t act with integrity and honesty, who’s not of decent character, who doesn’t treat their people well. And that’s just in my *job*, which is something where *they* are paying *me* to deal with it.
We (collective we) chose this guy as our leader? This characterless, ethics-free, perpetually lying, serially philandering, racist, sexist, dumb-as-a-sack-of-rocks, incurious, scientifically illiterate, practically *actually* illiterate, egomanical shitbag, and there’s nothing in the structure of our government that says, “Hey, this jackass is too lousy-of-character to serve in this office.”
What a country.
Point being, the media keeps looking for the straw that’s gonna break the camel’s back. There is no straw. And by focusing on the straw, they’re ignoring how completely he’s fucking tarnished the office of the President, and what a laughingstock he’s made the country to the rest of the world. Much less to ourselves. They’re so focused on “When will he cross the point of no return” that they don’t report that he rocketed past that at full speed *literally in the middle of the announcement of his candidacy*, and there’s nothing he can say or do that will get people to hold him to account, because as a country, we have no standards, we have no ethics, we have no morality, we have no decency – nothing that is inherent to the system or the office. Nothing will break Donald Trump but us.
It is up to us to say, not just “no more,” but “this hasn’t even been remotely okay since day ZERO,” and to vote the GOP into utter oblivion.
This is a party that needs to be utterly obliterated, and run out of government so thoroughly that the tea party-era Fox News/Breitbart/InfoWars era GOP is held up as a warning sign to anyone who’d dare exploit our worst impulses that if they do so they will be fucking destroyed.
It’s just disgusting. Every day it’s more disgusting. And everyone who touches this administration is tainted forever. Paul Ryan’s name will be an epithet – a name you invoke when you want to call someone the basest of weasels, to say they have no courage, no redeeming value, to say they can look genuine tragedy in the face and feel nothing while taking millions of dollars from those who profit from it and then stand there in front of the people and lie like a motherfucker. The name Trump will be a black mark – the kind where people unrelated to him change their name out of abject shame. Where the name “Donald” dies for a generation because people can’t bear to name their beautiful children after this kind of grotesque id monster.
Vote. Vote in 2018. Vote in 2020. Vote every goddamn chance you get and wipe this party out of existence on every level in every office throughout the land.