Precisely. I've been telling people exactly this. He knows he's several kinds of done, including the permanent kind, and he can't stand the idea he won't be here to run his fat dumb mouth forever. He wants to destroy it all because he's old and failing.
The simplest explanation (as required to pass the Occam's Razor test) is that welfare-aligned sentience (the ability to choose the best option to promote one's long-term viability) first requires sentience (the ability to perceive one's environment through one's senses). Donald J. Trump is apparently so divorced from reality that he lacks sentience beyond the capacity to avoid walking into walls. All else follows from that observation.
Own up, America ! Traitor Trump made no secret that a return to the White House would be his "retribution tour" - and in your stratospheric stupidity you STILL elected him. NOW SUFFER THE DISASTROUS SPIRAL THAT HE - LIKE HITLER BEFORE HIM - HAS DECREED FOR THIS ONCE-GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS
True, but post Hitler, Germans recognized the horror they had supported. They put “stumble stones” engraved with the names of those killed to make walkers remember, they built memorials to the synagogues that had been destroyed, you enter German churches and cathedrals by passing under a large Menorah representing the Jewish faith and one half of the Bible, and they created a new Constitution more democratic than our own. I hope all my fellow citizens will be able to admit our errors, cooperate with each other, and create a society even better than what we had before. (Anybody ready to update our Constitution?)
Well said, Ms. Houser. Less than a century ago, a racist, power-crazed sociopath named Adolf Hitler brought his country to ruin and died a coward by his own hand. Tomorrow, we must redouble our resolve to not let Donald Trump do the same to our, not his, country.
Thank you! We will make it through the MAGA/Trump disaster. We will rebuild, replace and restore. We will emerge stronger and even better. Have faith, continue to fight, and be ready. We have work to do.
Tremendous reflection! Thank you so much! Happy 250th Anniversary of Our Democracy! Happy 4th of July!
Precisely. I've been telling people exactly this. He knows he's several kinds of done, including the permanent kind, and he can't stand the idea he won't be here to run his fat dumb mouth forever. He wants to destroy it all because he's old and failing.
Wow, this was a hunk of good writing. Each and every paragraph. Thank you!
This is also the mindset of that quintessentially American phenomenon, the mass shooter who finishes off his massacre by turning the gun on himself.
Ever word you wrote is true. But their children and grandchildren cannot escape what they have done.
Neither can the rest of us. It will take a lot of concerted effort and work to clean up what has been left. We can and will do it.
That will be their punishment- knowing their descendants will understand exactly what they’ve done.
This is a really really good essay. The truth is so truthfully described! "The far right is adrift in a curdling fantasy."
Lucille Clifton, every day of her life, "something has tried to kill me/and has failed."
Brava. Thank you. Happy 250th to us.
Thank you! This column has revived by Fourth of July spirit!
The simplest explanation (as required to pass the Occam's Razor test) is that welfare-aligned sentience (the ability to choose the best option to promote one's long-term viability) first requires sentience (the ability to perceive one's environment through one's senses). Donald J. Trump is apparently so divorced from reality that he lacks sentience beyond the capacity to avoid walking into walls. All else follows from that observation.
Own up, America ! Traitor Trump made no secret that a return to the White House would be his "retribution tour" - and in your stratospheric stupidity you STILL elected him. NOW SUFFER THE DISASTROUS SPIRAL THAT HE - LIKE HITLER BEFORE HIM - HAS DECREED FOR THIS ONCE-GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS
Please do not include those of us who DID NOT elect him.
True, but post Hitler, Germans recognized the horror they had supported. They put “stumble stones” engraved with the names of those killed to make walkers remember, they built memorials to the synagogues that had been destroyed, you enter German churches and cathedrals by passing under a large Menorah representing the Jewish faith and one half of the Bible, and they created a new Constitution more democratic than our own. I hope all my fellow citizens will be able to admit our errors, cooperate with each other, and create a society even better than what we had before. (Anybody ready to update our Constitution?)
What a stellar piece of writing! Thank you!
Well said, Ms. Houser. Less than a century ago, a racist, power-crazed sociopath named Adolf Hitler brought his country to ruin and died a coward by his own hand. Tomorrow, we must redouble our resolve to not let Donald Trump do the same to our, not his, country.
Loved this article! Gives me hope!
Excellent piece. This validates my position completely. Hope it is read by millions of people.
Thank you! We will make it through the MAGA/Trump disaster. We will rebuild, replace and restore. We will emerge stronger and even better. Have faith, continue to fight, and be ready. We have work to do.
Excellent essay
There are "in your face, Donnie" ways to celebrate.
https://annelamott.substack.com/p/the-fourth-is-with-us?r=egm8j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Thanks for this.