It’s more than 6 weeks from the election and less than a month from the inauguration and I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that this idiot has been elected. I strongly believe the next four years are going to be a disaster for the US and the world. The most powerful country in the history of the world being headed by someone so profoundly unqualified, unsuitable and unprepared is scary beyond comprehension.
There was lots of talk about how he’d turn out to be more moderate than the persona he adopted during the campaign; that the posturing, bullying, racism, xenophobia and misogyny he displayed were just to rally the Bubba voter, and we’d see the more Presidential Trump after the election.
So far, not so much.
Asking that he appoint Cabinet members with, I don’t know, maybe SOME experience in their various posts turns out to be WAY too much to ask for; it’s been reported that he’s actually selecting people based (at least partly) on whether they “look” the part. And given how shallow Trump is, I guess in a weird, scary way, maybe that makes sense.
In a particularly ironic twist (considering how much he ranted against “the crooks at Goldman Sachs” and how Clinton, Cruz, and the rest of his political adversaries were in their pockets), his Cabinet is made of billionaires and millionaires, several from the very firms he castigated for their crookedness during his campaign. Talk about putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse!
Some long-term friends were in town this past weekend; Heather and David live in Washington DC and were out here for a wedding. I mentioned how I can’t understand how any rational, thinking human could vote for Trump; there is not a single argument that makes any sense when examined critically. David’s response was that I’m looking at it the wrong way. The people who voted for Trump weren’t thinking; they were feeling. They felt betrayed, angry and disillusioned about the current political system and wanted it upended. Their attitude was “Burn it down; WHATEVER we have afterward will be better than what we have now.” I think he’s right. It helps a little to understand, but it doesn’t make me feel any more positive about the next four years.
Anyhow, let’s see how that’s working out.
To fill his Cabinet, Trump is selecting sycophants, nut jobs, racists and ideologues. These people have virtually no experience in running government agencies, no experience in policy implementation (let alone development), and no apparent sense of the importance of honoring a public trust. Their goal seems to be to simply undo. Undo everything Obama put in place, undo regulations, undo environmental or trade treaties, undo relationships with other countries; throw out everything. And they seem to be ready to do so without any reals plans for what to do instead.
Maybe some things need overhauling. But that would entail some thoughtful, deliberative processes and it sure doesn’t look like there’s anyone capable of doing that in this new Administration of Clowns.
The unfortunate fact is that what we will be left with is immeasurably worse than what we had before.
About BigBill
Stats: Married male boomer.
Hobbies: Hiking, woodworking, reading, philosophy, good conversation.
It’s not looking good, people.
There was lots of talk about how he’d turn out to be more moderate than the persona he adopted during the campaign; that the posturing, bullying, racism, xenophobia and misogyny he displayed were just to rally the Bubba voter, and we’d see the more Presidential Trump after the election.
So far, not so much.
Asking that he appoint Cabinet members with, I don’t know, maybe SOME experience in their various posts turns out to be WAY too much to ask for; it’s been reported that he’s actually selecting people based (at least partly) on whether they “look” the part. And given how shallow Trump is, I guess in a weird, scary way, maybe that makes sense.
In a particularly ironic twist (considering how much he ranted against “the crooks at Goldman Sachs” and how Clinton, Cruz, and the rest of his political adversaries were in their pockets), his Cabinet is made of billionaires and millionaires, several from the very firms he castigated for their crookedness during his campaign. Talk about putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse!
Some long-term friends were in town this past weekend; Heather and David live in Washington DC and were out here for a wedding. I mentioned how I can’t understand how any rational, thinking human could vote for Trump; there is not a single argument that makes any sense when examined critically. David’s response was that I’m looking at it the wrong way. The people who voted for Trump weren’t thinking; they were feeling. They felt betrayed, angry and disillusioned about the current political system and wanted it upended. Their attitude was “Burn it down; WHATEVER we have afterward will be better than what we have now.” I think he’s right. It helps a little to understand, but it doesn’t make me feel any more positive about the next four years.
Anyhow, let’s see how that’s working out.
To fill his Cabinet, Trump is selecting sycophants, nut jobs, racists and ideologues. These people have virtually no experience in running government agencies, no experience in policy implementation (let alone development), and no apparent sense of the importance of honoring a public trust. Their goal seems to be to simply undo. Undo everything Obama put in place, undo regulations, undo environmental or trade treaties, undo relationships with other countries; throw out everything. And they seem to be ready to do so without any reals plans for what to do instead.
Maybe some things need overhauling. But that would entail some thoughtful, deliberative processes and it sure doesn’t look like there’s anyone capable of doing that in this new Administration of Clowns.
The unfortunate fact is that what we will be left with is immeasurably worse than what we had before.
About BigBill
Stats: Married male boomer. Hobbies: Hiking, woodworking, reading, philosophy, good conversation.