I Have to Stop Yelling at Republicans
At the high school, English teachers tend to be liberal and history teachers tend to be Republicans-- and once in a while a history teacher will come up to the English Office to take our pulse on the current political situation and I always end up ranting and raving about voodoo economics and Republican induced financial meltdowns and deficits and unprecedented spending and tax cuts for the Constituency and all that and today was one of those days and this time we got on the topic of is Trump behaving like a banana-republic dictator and everyone entrenched themselves-- the history teachers have the perspective that Trump isn't nearly as bad as people (liberals) thought it would be and he's really getting some great stuff done and the English teachers-- myself included-- think we're living under the regime of a madman, who likes to flaunt his nuclear capabilities, is https://player.fm/series/voxs-the-weeds/the-imprudent-scott-pruitt-- looking for ways to add lead in our environment, pollutants to our lakes streams, CO2 to our atmosphere, coal dust to our lungs and racing us to the precipice in regards to climate change-- and that our commander-in-chief changes his opinion in regards to his staff and policy daily . . . if you want more ammunition for the latter perspective, listen to the new episode of This American Life . . . it's the story of how Republican Senator Jeff Flake tries to get a popular DACA bill passed in an absolutely insane White House, or you could listen to the folks on The Weeds explain how Sinclair broadcasting is forcing local newscasters to spout right wing propaganda . . . the problem with this stuff is it's relatively boring, like Trump and Pruitt's attempt to repeal the Clean Water Act, but it's happening and obviously some folks either are unaware of it or think this is the stuff that makes America great, and some folks-- myself included-- are angry and annoyed; I remember feeling this way during the Bush administration too-- he was another enemy to the existential environmental threats that our species is facing-- but at least he was more of a bumbling knob, as opposed to our current windbag of Presidential flatulence.
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Trump is worse because (1) he's surrounded by incompetents and morons; (2) he gives zero shits about anyone except himself and his family; and (3) he's a gameshow host.
By contrast, W (1) was an incompetent moron surrounded by capable people; (2) he had a sense of compassion and decency albeit directed in ways different than mine; and (3) he was the governor of Texas.
true-- it's hard to compare them in a relative way, because they both clicked a switch in my brain, but i suppose trump does amplify things considerably.
Is it better to be surrounded by incompetents and morons or capable people who have their own agendas contrary to what much of America wants and believes in? There's a case to be made that we can roll back a lot of the tripe in Trump's imbecilic executive orders in 2020, but extricating ourselves from Iraq and the fallout that ensued was far more challenging... unless, of course, the cretin in the Oval Office takes us to apocalyptic obliteration. Then yeah.
That's a good point. Let's hope Trump gets nothing done over the next 2.75 years.
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