The Best Thing about the Memorial Day Weekend
We had a quiet holiday weekend at home this year, similar to last year’s, but most certainly not as fearful as that one. We binge watched television series, cooked, and went on walks with our dogs, even sans masks since we’ve both been vaccinated and continue social distancing from people we don’t know are vaccinated. Ignoring the nonsense going on in Austin, we had a relaxing and less stress-filled holiday and I realized yesterday the main reason – no Trump Show. One of the most infuriating intrusions Trump made into our lives for the last 4 years was his constant co-opting of holidays to draw attention to himself. Besides his incessant tweeting, childish insults, and rambling press gaggles, he LOVED the self aggrandizing rallies he organized at every opportunity, especially national holidays. For those 4 years, I couldn’t watch Memorial Day, 4 of July, and other national events because Trump turned them all into rallies for himself. Not during a holiday, but he even turned the White House into a 3 ring circus during the GOP national convention which was an assault on everything from the senses to federal laws to common decency. He was a one man shit show.
The pain of watching Trump turn the entire government apparatus into his own personal plaything has now been replaced by Biden’s quiet and steady leadership. He has returned us to our traditions of wreath laying and serious speeches about public service, the courage of our armed forces, and the keystone of our country, democracy. He never talks about himself, his personal grievances, or his political enemies. He restarted the WH daily brief with a competent press secretary who answers all questions truthfully without the personal attacks on the press that were commonplace under Trump. He’s played golf one time since becoming President as compared to Trump who had played at least 25 times at this point in his term.
What this weekend really drove home for me is that we must make goddam sure that Trump, or any of his Mini-Trumps, get anywhere near the Oval Office, ever again. The toxic waste of the Trump presidency came within inches of actually destroying our government and our way of life and continues to corrode our institutions, even from his lair at Mar a Lago. We must never let that happen again.
“No Trump Show” … that says it all for a whole bunch of us!!!
1It’s been so peaceful in that respect that it’s almost beyond description, but you said it pretty well.
2Slain U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was a DT supporter, as were his mother and partner. The mother and partner were interviewed and noted how they were ignored by DT — he never contacted them after Brian Sicknick died. The two women were pulling for the 1-6 Commission and were pointing out the Senators who voted against the 1-6 Commission, and those who did not even bother to show up to vote. Maybe interviews like this will get the word out to DT supporters the type of person he actually is, not the fictional “The Apprentice” created caricature acting role.
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“The mother and partner of fallen U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick speak to CBS News Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion about their disappointment at the Senate’s failure to create a January 6 commission and how they’re coping with his death.”
3https://www.cbsnews.com/video/family-of-fallen-capitol-police-officer-continue-push-for-january-6-commission/
‘Lest we forget…
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~ gall 1 |ɡôl|
noun
1 bold, impudent behavior: the bank had the gall to demand a fee.
Gall: Trump tells followers he ‘expects to be reinstated’ in August as MAGA extremists call for Myanmar-style coup
https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/biden-trump/
4The Rufous Ratbastard hasn’t actually been that quiet, it’s just that the MSM hasn’t been paying too much attention anymore.
The two Sunday political shows that I often watch, Meet the Press and This Week, have really gotten very critical of the RR lately. On this past Sunday they were excoriating the GQPeers and Ratbastard. Better late than never…
On Memorial Day Ratbastard was whooping it up about a boat parade in ‘his honor’ with –thousands– of boats, there actually weren’t more than a couple dozen boats.
https://images.dailykos.com/images/893493/large/Sunk_Trump_Boat.jpg
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/31/2033032/-DELUSIONAL-Trump-Imagines-Thousands-and-Thousands-of-Boats-Worshiping-Him-on-Memorial-Day
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5BTW, “Rufous” is an actual color, sort of a sickly orange and shitbrindle brown. It fits Rufous Ratbastard perfectly. The moat-pool around his final resting place will runneth over with rufous-colored water… :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous
“The first recorded use of rufous as a colour name in English was in 1782.[2]
—However, the colour is also recorded earlier in 1527 as a diagnostic urine colour.[3]”
It’s not just his majesty – it’s all the liars that lied for him. I can now watch a press conference and not feel the need to fact check every word out of Psaki’s mouth. But the GOPers are trying to creep back in. Wesley Hunt is shopping a Congressional district as are many others. The Big Lie added to the Big Gerrymander is not going to be good for Houston, Texas or the USA.
6“ He was a one man shit show.”
Made even worse when it hit the fan. Fox News.
7And the best thing about the wreath placement ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns? The speaker was a real patriot.
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