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I Still Don’t Believe that Trump’s a Threat.
I keep getting comments from readers who are upset because I don’t think that Trump Shithead represents any kind of threat. I’m told that he only gives tax breaks to the rich, that he hates immigrants coming up from the South, that he tried to overthrow the government on January 6th, that he’s opposed to the Green New Deal, so on and so forth, okay?
Now let me first make something very clear. I have voted in 28 national and off-year elections since 1968 and I am proud to say that I have never (read: never) voted for any Republic(an) candidate even once. I can’t and I won’t. Period. End of story.
That being said, my main beef against Trump is that the President of the United States should keep any racist, violent, or profane thoughts to himself. The President of the United States doesn’t say the words ‘shithole countries’ out loud. The President of the United States doesn’t get up at a rally and say, ‘Where’s my African American.’ The President of the United States doesn’t refer to a distinguished public health physician like Anthony Fauci as a ‘liar.’
There are things the President of the United States should simply never say. Trump has said and continues to say all of them today.
At the same time, he really didn’t do anything while he was President. The big tax cut had been sitting on…