by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump doesn't have the time or inclination to go to church on Sunday mornings. That appears to be his favorite time of the week to put his giant, flabby, white butt down on his golden toilet and bang out the tweets that will set the political tone for the week.
This week we are going to be talking about immigration as ICE sweeps into ten metropolitan communities and drags brown and black people from their homes and places of refuge in preparation for stuffing them onto airplanes and flying them out of the United States and back into whatever dreadful circumstances that they fled in the first place. It will be a week of fabulous photo opportunities for the Trump administration to show the world, and the primates who form his political base, just how tough an hombre he really is - and the nation's press will scamper along like so many poodles, reporting on the raids and showing photos of brown and black people in chains.
It will be a ground-shaking wet dream for American racists.
And that should really be enough baboon crap for one week, but Trump saw an opportunity to fling some more - and he just couldn't help himself.
This morning while some people were in church, Trump was sitting on the pot, thumbs a-flying, as he tried to wedge himself into Democratic politics and remind his base about the diverse nature of the Democrats in Congress - but not in a good way.
A disagreement has been bubbling along for several days now between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four new female members of Congress - all Democrats. The four: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, have all been outspoken and seemingly anxious to move their agendas in Congress, and none of the four have been shy about talking to the press. This week Pelosi tried to force the four back into line, referring to them as merely a squad of four with limited influence beyond Twitter. That effort quickly turned on her as party progressives began showing support for the outspoken congresswomen.
Trump smelled blood in the water and made several comments during the week regarding the rift in Congress among Democrats. Anything that could keep his arch-enemy Nancy Pelosi on the ropes was worth exploiting.
This morning he changed tact, however, and went after the congresswomen - a ploy that fit nicely into his anti-immigrant focus for the week. In a string of tweets, Donald John painted the four women of color as being immigrants who came to the United States from other countries and now want to tell real Americans how to fix this country - when they could not even fix their own.
Trump had this to say:
Only one of those four ladies was born in a country other than the United States. Representative Ilhan Omar moved from Somalia with her family when she was a very young child. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, New York City, and represents that area now in Congress. Representative Rashida Tlaib was born in Detroit, Michigan, and represents it now in Congress. And Representative Ayanna Pressley was born in Cincinnati, raised in Chicago, and currently represents a part of Boston in Congress.
Yet Donald John Trump would like for us to believe that they are all immigrants from "shithole" countries who are bent on destroying his vision and version of the United States. (Trump probably does have some understanding of immigration because two of his three wives were immigrants to the United States.).
Pelosi, who was boxed in by Trump, shot back that his remarks were racist and designed to "make America white again," which they were. None of the four Trump targets were standard white, Anglo-Saxon, protestants (WASPs), thus making it easy to paint them as "foreign" to many of Trump's uneducated supporters.
Race-baiting and name-calling. It reminds me of the time several months ago when my own congressman, Jason Smith of Missouri's 8th, yelled on the floor of the House that a Democratic member from California should "go back to Puerto Rico!" Representative Smith and Donald Trump both appear to be lacking basic geography skills, or, for that matter, basic human decency - and, of course, they are both Republicans. (To Smith's credit, he later apologized. Trump never will.)
So another week begins. Keep those trash bags handy, folks, because it going to be like sitting down front at a Gallagher show!
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump doesn't have the time or inclination to go to church on Sunday mornings. That appears to be his favorite time of the week to put his giant, flabby, white butt down on his golden toilet and bang out the tweets that will set the political tone for the week.
This week we are going to be talking about immigration as ICE sweeps into ten metropolitan communities and drags brown and black people from their homes and places of refuge in preparation for stuffing them onto airplanes and flying them out of the United States and back into whatever dreadful circumstances that they fled in the first place. It will be a week of fabulous photo opportunities for the Trump administration to show the world, and the primates who form his political base, just how tough an hombre he really is - and the nation's press will scamper along like so many poodles, reporting on the raids and showing photos of brown and black people in chains.
It will be a ground-shaking wet dream for American racists.
And that should really be enough baboon crap for one week, but Trump saw an opportunity to fling some more - and he just couldn't help himself.
This morning while some people were in church, Trump was sitting on the pot, thumbs a-flying, as he tried to wedge himself into Democratic politics and remind his base about the diverse nature of the Democrats in Congress - but not in a good way.
A disagreement has been bubbling along for several days now between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four new female members of Congress - all Democrats. The four: Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, have all been outspoken and seemingly anxious to move their agendas in Congress, and none of the four have been shy about talking to the press. This week Pelosi tried to force the four back into line, referring to them as merely a squad of four with limited influence beyond Twitter. That effort quickly turned on her as party progressives began showing support for the outspoken congresswomen.
Trump smelled blood in the water and made several comments during the week regarding the rift in Congress among Democrats. Anything that could keep his arch-enemy Nancy Pelosi on the ropes was worth exploiting.
This morning he changed tact, however, and went after the congresswomen - a ploy that fit nicely into his anti-immigrant focus for the week. In a string of tweets, Donald John painted the four women of color as being immigrants who came to the United States from other countries and now want to tell real Americans how to fix this country - when they could not even fix their own.
Trump had this to say:
"So interesting to see "progressive" Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all) now loudly . . . . .
. . . . . and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how. . . . .
. . . . . it is done. These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough. I'm sure that Nancy Pelosi would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements!"
Only one of those four ladies was born in a country other than the United States. Representative Ilhan Omar moved from Somalia with her family when she was a very young child. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, New York City, and represents that area now in Congress. Representative Rashida Tlaib was born in Detroit, Michigan, and represents it now in Congress. And Representative Ayanna Pressley was born in Cincinnati, raised in Chicago, and currently represents a part of Boston in Congress.
Yet Donald John Trump would like for us to believe that they are all immigrants from "shithole" countries who are bent on destroying his vision and version of the United States. (Trump probably does have some understanding of immigration because two of his three wives were immigrants to the United States.).
Pelosi, who was boxed in by Trump, shot back that his remarks were racist and designed to "make America white again," which they were. None of the four Trump targets were standard white, Anglo-Saxon, protestants (WASPs), thus making it easy to paint them as "foreign" to many of Trump's uneducated supporters.
Race-baiting and name-calling. It reminds me of the time several months ago when my own congressman, Jason Smith of Missouri's 8th, yelled on the floor of the House that a Democratic member from California should "go back to Puerto Rico!" Representative Smith and Donald Trump both appear to be lacking basic geography skills, or, for that matter, basic human decency - and, of course, they are both Republicans. (To Smith's credit, he later apologized. Trump never will.)
So another week begins. Keep those trash bags handy, folks, because it going to be like sitting down front at a Gallagher show!
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