I’ve been slapping myself in the face for the past 5 minutes
desperately trying to wake up from my Trumpian nightmare. It’s not working and
I need an ice pack.
So today’s episode of The Twilight Zone has the CIA
releasing the results of an investigation that says Russia was definitely
involved in hacking our election to help Donald Trump win. Trump has, of
course, dismissed the allegation, as have some GOP members of Congress. Think
about it. Reagan called the Soviet Union the “Evil Empire,” and who hated the
Commies more than the GOP during the past sixty years? Now, Russia has meddled
in our election and Republicans are rolling their eyes. “What’s the big deal?”
Jesus H. Christmas. There is no end to the epic hypocrisy and
lies of Trump and his supporters. And what’s even worse is that they believe
each other’s lies. For some masochistic reason I went to the comment section of
an article on Trump, and a person wrote, “Donald Trump has done more in eight
weeks than Obama has done in eight years.” That may be true on some other plane
of existence, but on this one that is a laughable assertion. All Trump has done
is lie his ass off and nominate a horde of ideological reactionaries with
fascist leanings to sensitive government posts.
And that’s not all, folks. A report released yesterday by
Public Policy Polling finds that Trump supporters have a voracious appetite for
fake news, with 14 percent of them believing Hillary Clinton is part of a child
sex ring run out of pizza parlors, and 73 percent believing that billionaire
George Soros paid anti-Trump protesters. Neither story is even remotely true,
but we live in a post-truth world now.
Filmmaker Michael Moore doesn’t think Trump will even make
it to his inauguration before he’s arrested or forced to resign, and as bold an
assertion as that is, he was right about Trump winning the election. We can
hope. In the meantime, the nightmare continues.
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