America you’ve been conned. Not just by any con-man, a con-man-in-chief. Not only won’t he deliver on his promises but the blueprint he’s laid out, shows that he’ll actively work against you. Did a cheeto-toned face come to mind? Sadly, your working class hero is an unhinged fraud, but you will be an architect of your own misery. Donald J. Trump has taken all the things he criticized Hillary Clinton for and amped them up by one thousand percent. Her “corruption” doesn’t hold a candle to the hurricane of danger he’s dragging in. The swamp is overflowing, his conflict of interests are impeachable, he’s using the power of the presidency for his own financial gain, damaging foreign relationships, his university has been proven fraudulent, Saudi ties are more apparent than ever, and he helped a foreign country subjugate our democracy by hacking the election. All while appointing a cabinet of historically inexperienced deplorables who actively oppose their own agencies. Tremendous. This isn’t simply about party lines, I’ll accept a conservative, but the man is completely unfit to serve. Let’s further explore why Hamilton electors must rise up to protect our democracy.
If you thought billionaires buying the government was bad, well now they are the government. So if you didn’t vote for the lesser of two evils, and aren’t regretting that choice, you’re not listening. The most imminent reality is that he’s completely flip-flopped on the one pivotal issue that conservatives overlooked his racism, xenophobia, and misogyny for – standing up to Wall Street and prioritizing the middle class. Trump voters should’ve seen this coming. I mean how are Bush tax cuts on steroids, which raise taxes for 8.5 million families supposed to help the economy? Eleven million households of single parents will also see increases. It’s a fact that the middle-class has the largest MPC, so the economy grows when it does.
But suddenly “we told you so” doesn’t feel so good when we’ll all be slaves to Exxon, Goldman, and Russia. Trump’s even taken one step further to openly mock the empty rhetoric that got him elected at a victory tour rally when after a chant of “lock her up!” from the crowd, Trump replied: “That plays great before the election – now we don’t care.” Oh, but I thought Hillary was the one who would “say anything to get elected.”
Let’s start by carefully looking in his cabinet. He almost specifically appoints people to undermine the positions, people who don’t ‘believe’ in their agencies. SNL put it best, his appointments are like making Walter White the head of the DEA. Or, putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department.
-Michael Flynn as his National Security Adviser:
An islamophobic general who’s pushed fake news 16 times since August and indirectly put American’s lives in danger at a Washington pizzeria by pushing the ludicrous Pizzagate fabrication. Yes, Trump’s adviser is taking notes from Alex Jones the alt-right conspiracist who believes Sandy-Hook was a hoax, Obama is a demon, and 9/11 was an inside job. If that doesn’t scare you then I don’t know what will. Most of all, he mishandled classified information! Oh, and let’s not forget – he’s also a Russian puppet! The hypocrisy of the Trump campaign is almost tangible, so much for sticking it to “crooked Hillary.”
-Steve Bannon as Chief Strategist:
The ex-CEO of Breitbart, a white supremacist website which largely founded the “alt-right” movement. Of course, alt-right just being a euphemism for neo-nazi and there’s no question about it considering they’re self-proclaimed white supremacists. Just take a look at their conferences in Washington where they “heiled” Trump while doing a Nazi salute, and talked about the “superiority” of white men. They’ve got it all – anti-Semitism, unadulterated misogyny, and most of all fake news. So Donald Trump’s wild conspiracy theories about “paid protestors”, “millions of fake votes,” etc., make sense when you consider who advises him. That’s right the future president of the United States propagates fake news stories from an unabashed white supremacist website. How long until he starts a war with North Korea over a fake piece from another “brilliant alt-right provocateur?” Again, I respect right-wing websites like the National Review. What I don’t respect is propagating conspiracy theories that put Americans’ lives in danger or white supremacism.
–Jeff Sessions as Attorney General:
The man who couldn’t even pass a Reagan-era confirmation hearing in the south because he was deemed too racist to be a judge, has been appointed to one of the highest ranked positions in the law. It’s as if Trump is purposely seeking out the most notorious bigots in our country. Jeff Sessions was denied judgeship in Alabama in 1989 for his anti-civil-rights positions and racist comments such as saying the NAACP and Civil Liberties Union are “un-American, Communist-inspired organizations,” accusing them of trying to “force civil rights down the throats of people,” and calling a white civil-rights attorney a “disgrace to his race” for representing black clients, and going after black leaders with false “voter fraud” charges in order to suppress the black vote. To make matters worse in the hearing he called the NAACP a “possible threat to national security.” He was openly against civil rights, he thought blacks were second class citizens who had risen above their “proper station” in life. Yes, it was over 30 years ago, but his record speaks louder than any pseudo-apology he’s offered. He’s continued voting anti-voting rights, anti-civil rights, and anti-immigrant. Jeff Sessions will wad up the Constitution and destroy the founding pillars of the beacon of hope that is American democracy.
–Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State:
Tillerson is not just a pal of Russia’s authoritarian leader, but he is the head of one of the largest oil companies in the world. Thus, the stranglehold big oil has on democracy will continue, in a more direct way. His Russian ties are scarier than ever considering the recent Russian election hacking. Russia is not our friend, but they are to Tillerson, as he personally received the ‘Order of Friendship’ medal from the dictator himself. Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave. These ties explain why he would be offered the job or even take it. You see the man has no diplomatic experience; he simply stepped in to cut out the middleman. His appointment is all part of an obvious plan to lift the sanctions imposed on Russia, which had blocked his $500 billion oil deal.
–Gary Cohn as Director of National Economic Council: Goldman Sachs will be running our economy. You know, the one’s that caused the massive 2008 financial crisis, the worst recession in recent history? Again, Trump cut out the middleman. If you thought billionaires buying the government was bad, well now they are the government. Didn’t Trump criticize Ted Cruz in the primaries for Goldman Sachs ties and Hillary in the general? Well, now Goldman Sachs is his right-hand man.
–Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA:
Trump nominated a climate change denialist and fossil fuel shill to head the Environmental Protection Agency, or should I say dismantle it. The fact is that there is a scientific consensus on climate change and no “snowball” argument will derail the overwhelming evidence. These people will keep disputing facts once our major coastal states such as Florida are under water. Goodbye to the Paris Climate Change Agreement and any effort to combat (or really ‘ease’) the effects of climate change. The biggest threat facing our planet is global warming but our president thinks it’s a “hoax created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.” In fact, the Trump team is even going on a witch hunt against EPA civil servants, but more on that later. Just remember, all it takes is a 3-4 degree temperature change in Earth’s climate for the Arctic ice to melt and make certain major population centers uninhabitable. Tell me conservatives, even if the 97% of the scientific community was wrong, what are you gonna get? A healthier, more efficient environment? Who cares about that let’s take oil money and shut up!
–Andrew Puzder as Labor Secretary:
A fast-food CEO, who is a critic of the minimum wage, worker protections, whose company has broken worker safety laws, wants to replace workers with machines to head…the labor department. No one better than to fight for the “silent working class majority” than an out of touch billionaire whose record actually fights against your wishes.
-Gary Cohn as Economic Council Director:
He’s the President of Goldman Sachs who was a key architect of the 2008 financial crisis. It doesn’t get any more hypocritical than this. This cabinet couldn’t possibly get any more slimy worse if it tried. Now who’s being controlled by financial interests?
-Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary:
Another Goldman Sachs employee with no known qualifications. Oh and he also used to work for the alt-right’s conspiracy fueler – George Soros. Poetic justice.
-Rick Perry as head of the Department of Energy:
Ex-governor of Texas is set to run the agency he forgot he wanted to eliminate. There’s literally nothing else to say, the ridiculousness and disrespect towards our American executive branch speaks for itself.
–Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: The retired neurosurgeon with no political background, knowledge, or experience is set to lead a department he knows nothing about. When just earlier he’d said he wouldn’t want to take a position because he, “feels he has no government experience, he’s never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency.” This isn’t funny anymore, people’s lives are being put at stake at the hands of incompetent, politically illiterate, morons who actively oppose their agencies. Our future Secretary of HUD opposes anti-poverty programs because it creates “dependency.”
–Betsy DeVos as the Education Secretary:
A billionaire GOP donor, anti-union activist who helps gut public education by funneling money into “vouchers” for private education. Without the money, public schools fail, and get then get shut down. What an excellent person to help the future that is children, thrive.
–Elaine Chao as head of Transportation Department:
Chao made $1.2 million while overseeing Wells Fargo as a director during the period the bank has admitted to created millions of fake accounts.
As you can see he’s truly outdone himself and appointed a cabinet of deplorables who won’t represent American interests, only those of the billionaire class and Russia. Appointed inexperienced people who actively oppose their agencies work. Look at it like this, Obama’s Secretary of Energy appointments were MIT physicist, Steven Chu, with a Nobel Prize. Rick Perry miserably failed chemistry courses during college and couldn’t even name the agency. Is it not a total disregard for American lives to put complete buffoons to lead the most important agencies? Big oil running the state, Goldman running the economy, and an Alex Jones follower at our national security, somehow this is how we win. Or maybe that’s how he wins, that’s all his campaigns ever really been about, he just never thought he’d make it this far.
If you thought billionaires buying the government was bad, well now they are the government. Get ready for a 2008-like recession on steroids, endless destruction of our environment, and unresponsiveness to the American interests. This is official an oligarchy. Is this what working class whites meant by feeling “represented?” Are you all secret billionaire Putin fanboys? Well, maybe the latter is correct. Basically, conservatives complained about big business being in the pocket of the government, so they made them the government instead! You played yourself.
The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. Recently his Saudi Arabia ties, have been confirmed after he closed down companies linked to the country. But I thought he wasn’t corrupt like “crooked Hillary?”
Furthermore, the fraudulent Trump University, which stole millions from the most vulnerable of our society looking to get ahead, has settled for $25 million. But Donald, I thought you weren’t guilty? He even went on to brag about settling the lawsuit for a “small fraction of the potential award,” thus admitting that regardless he walked away from the con-job stealing from single mothers and students.
His unfitness to serve as the President, doesn’t stop there. He’s set a dangerous precedent of his term by suppressing & publicly flouting those that disagree with him like a petulant child.
This time, Donald attacked the president of United Steel Workers Union after he questioned his phony ‘Carrier deal.’ The deal gave Carrier a $7 million tax cut in exchange for not moving a plant to Mexico. In the end, Carrier kept 730 jobs in the US, and 1,233 will be moved anyway. Trump made a corporatist bribe and we lost over 1,000 American jobs. He set a precedent for corporations to threaten to outsource jobs, get a tax cut, and then outsource them anyway. What happened to “You’re gonna pay a damn tax when you leave this country?” Instead of penalizing as promised, he’s rewarding them for moving jobs away. Where is the art in this deal?
Trump gets praised for keeping 770 jobs while Obama is a failure for adding 178,000 jobs a month.
But I digress. Equally, if not more heinous is how Trump responded. Going on one of his classic Twitter rampages, he launched baseless attacks against the union president, which caused his goons to send him death threats. This is how our future president treats political dissent, by brazenly attacking them. It’s almost tantamount to third-world style leadership. Attacking unions is reminiscent of the Gilded Age, and that’s exactly what his term will be with big oil and other modern day ‘robber barons’ in charge.
In the latest tantrum, he “canceled” a new Air Force One, via Twitter (again), citing false concerns over the price of the plane. This interestingly came soon after Boeing expressed concerns over trade policies.
The man has the temperament of a Chihuahua. He’s even gotten a teenage girl sent death threats after she asked a question at a political forum. If you can’t even take a question without lashing out like a maniac on Twitter for all your rabid followers to go after, then maybe you’re not qualified for the job at any level.
Not only that, but he won’t attend intelligence briefings (because he’s “too smart”) yet has time to watch and whine about a comedy sketch show endlessly. He has time to get triggered on the behalf of his vice president by a broadway musical who politely asked him to protect civil rights, throw a tantrum over Twitter not making a “crooked Hillary” emoji, attack Vanity Fair via Twitter for giving him a negative restaurant review and has time to whine about people expressing their First Amendment right by peacefully protesting his win. He even had time to push a fake news conspiracy about “million of illegal votes,” possibly signaling that (with the help of Sessions) he will attempt to suppress the minority vote in the future. Going on to later thank African Americans for not voting: “The African-American community was great to us…they didn’t vote, & that was almost as good for me”
In fact, he shows more fervor and conviction when attacking said magazine for criticizing his restaurant, then when telling white supremacists to stop hate crimes after practically being forced to. And instead of getting even a basic civics lesson or learning anything about governing considering he has no political history, he’s just basking in his own pride on a divisive victory tour. What a class act, what a leader. I hope no country decides to attack us during an episode of Saturday Night Live.
Our President-elect hates the Constitution, even going as far to say flag burners should lose citizenship or go to jail. Even though it was decided by the Supreme Court that it’s a form of symbolic protest in Texas v. Johnson – even uber-conservative Justice Scalia agreed. What makes this country great are the principles it was founded on, including being able to freely criticize the government without fear of persecution in order to prevent tyranny and have an actual democracy, and yes that includes flag burning. Subjugating free speech and lashing out like he has against dissent is synonymous to that of dictatorships like North Korea.
Not only does he hate the Constitution but he’ll be in violation of it from day one if he doesn’t divest from all business interests. He’s shown no signs of doing that as of yet because he fundamentally thinks that the president “can’t have a conflict of interest.” The Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution begs to differ, Trump:
“..no person holding any office of profit or trust” shall “accept of any present, emolument, office or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state” unless requested by Congress.
Now saying he will hand his businesses over to his children, who sit in on his presidential meetings including those with foreign countries. What a step up. Ivanka Trump for one has sat in on a meeting with the Japanese prime minister and a phone call with the Argentine president. And all three children sat in on a meeting with tech companies yesterday. To fully establish the denigration of our democracy into a dictatorship controlled by a dynasty, it’s now been announced that Ivanka will take the office reserved to the First Lady, meanwhile Melania and her son stay in New York. The nepotism couldn’t be anymore brazen. And he hasn’t resolved to do anything about his conflicts of interests, even skipping out on a press conference a few days ago where he was supposed to address his plans for his businesses in order to parade around with Kanye West and distract the news. I mean for goodness sake, Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest! Trump is utterly the most unqualified, unfit, and most dangerous President-elect we’ve ever had.
Moving on to a flash of his foreign policy style, Trump managed to single-handedly unravel decades of American foreign diplomacy put in place by Nixon with one unabashed phone call he lied about making.
It’s been established since 1979 that the US government would not have any official contact with Taiwan, in order to recognize the People’s Republic of China. The moron called the President of Taiwan lunging into the most sensitive of China’s interests – the “One China” policy. It’s always been U.S. policy towards China not to recognize Taiwan. Erratic, major pivots in foreign is how wars start, and the orange buffoon managed to unravel the most sensitive piece of diplomacy established with a country who we owe billions to and that has nukes. Hello World War III.
To top of the Idiocracy that is American politics right now, 17 nonpartisan U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia tampered with the US election to help Trump win and Putin was directly involved. Kremlin hacked the DNC and RNC, but only leaked DNC files to help him win. Trump won decisive states by less than one percentage point, so their influence could’ve been much more extensive than we know so far.. What’s more, FBI director Comey and majority leader McConel deliberately withheld information on Russia meddling with the election, thereby violating the Hatch Act. Not a first time for Comey who reopened last minute election-costing witch hunt against Hillary. The GOP literally aided foreign aggression against American democracy and the Trump team may be complicit
This is bigger than Watergate. It isn’t about party lines, and our treasonous President-elect has defended U.S. foreign attackers and attacked our intelligence community. It’s no wonder why he hasn’t attended any intelligence briefings, and said he’s getting intel talking to foreign leaders. He did deliberately call for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton at his last press briefing. And even his cabinet is heavily immersed with Russian connections from Rex Tillerson and Michael Flynn, his National Security Adviser.
We had 33 Congressional Hearings on Benghazi, countless investigations on her damn emails but none on Russian efforts to influence our election even when they had a suspicion. This has gone on far too long and our national security and democratic principles are being subjugated, with the help of the President-elect himself seeing as he’s attacking the CIA. But he sure doesn’t have a hard time believing debunked Infowars conspiracies about “millions of illegal votes.”
The electoral college was created precisely to stop unqualified demagogues, pawns of foreign powers, and an “ill administration”:
“… of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.” — Alexander Hamilton, (Federalist No. 1)
“the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration,” and for that reason, he said, the electors should be “able to estimate the share which the executive in every government must necessarily have in its good or ill administration.” (Federalist No. 68.)
And in Federalist No. 68, Hamilton wrote that one major purpose of the Electoral College was to stop the “desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” Saying the college should “Guard against all danger of this sort … with the most provident and judicious attention” from the electors.
Donald J. Trump has shown utter disrespect for our founding values, no interest in learning how to govern, wadded up the Constitution into toilet paper, and could be a treasonous pawn to a dictator. He’s proven to us how easily he can start a war or a depression through his actions and has shown complete contempt for upholding the law; bragging about not paying taxes exemplifies it. Russia and the KKK got the president they wanted but the majority of Americans didn’t, with Hillary Clinton currently leading Trump by 2.8 million votes. Now is the time to respectfully ask our electors to honor America’s founding fathers. And urge our Congressmen to postpone to vote until all our electors have been provided an intelligence briefing.
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