Make Way for 2020

It’s the end of 2019 and the political chaos continues.

Three years after stealing the election, tRump is still in office. The investigations that began even before he took office are still under way and are producing more evidence of corruption every day. That’s in addition to the dirty dealing that has resulted in two articles of impeachment: Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

1,000 Days

From Twitter

Will the women lead to the ultimate downfall of tRump?

Donald tRump has been in office for 1,000 days. No, I refuse to use the honorific with his name because he is the furthest thing from a president the United States has ever had.

The most recent calculation by the Washington Post totaled tRump's 13,435 false or misleading claims over 993 days. 

Never have we seen the level of corruption and abuse he has created in all aspects of his administration – the White House staff, cabinet positions, judges all have questionable qualifications and histories, often mired in the swamp tRump vowed to drain.

Trump’s Abnormal Events

Students of authoritarian regimes suggest keeping a list of abnormal events after a demagogue is elected, as a way to remind yourself that this isn't normal and to keep from being overwhelmed into acceptance by the onslaught of attacks on our rights.

Those of us who attempted to do that gave up a long time ago, overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of outrageousness. A few diehards, such as Amy Siskind, are doing the hard work for us, via her Weekly List. She compiled her first year’s collection into “The List,” published in March 2018.

Siskind, along with Karen McRae, has also organized a We the People March in Washington, D.C., for Sept. 21. Check the website for other marches across the country and travel information.

#OutrageOverload

Every time I think about venting about the outrage-du-jour committed by tRump and company, another travesty supplants it. (Yeah, I've written that before.)

The concentration camps housing kids in cages with no soap or toothpaste was out there. Then there were the racist attacks against the four Democratic women of color, and add to that Elijah Cummings.

Ladies: Gird Your Loins

UPDATE: On Tuesday night, May 13, 25 white men of the Alabama senate, all Republicans, voted to take away a women's right to choose what to do with her body. And on Wednesday evening in an act of betrayal to the women of Alabama and the US, Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill. Then, on Thursday morning, Missouri's senate passed an 8-week bill (it must be passed by the house and signed by the governor) and Louisiana's house and senate passed a fetal heartbeat bill.

If women are not allowed to make decisions concerning their bodies, how the hell will they be elected president?

Yes, I am enraged, and no number of "there, theres" will squelch it.

This past week in particular has been a shitstorm for women’s right to choose. In particular, Georgia, now known as Gilead, passed a “heartbeat” bill that would ban abortions as early as six weeks. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the brutally restrictive bill, which is supposed to go into effect Jan. 1; the American Civil Liberties Union will challenge it in court. Georgia has the highest maternal death rate in the country.

Also tagged on to the bill is a caveat that a woman who travels out of state for an abortion may be charged with conspiracy to commit murder and anyone who assists her could be charged with conspiracy. My question is how will they know? Will Georgia hire the uterus police to be stationed at state borders?

Still Waiting

Every time I want to write about the shitstorm that is our government today, something else happens that buries my original complaint.

But this Accountability waiting game is enraging and exhausting.