~a column by Colleen O’Brien
Pardon more than a thousand traitors, rioters, seditionists and insurrectionists from the damage they committed against the Capitol buildings’ police, windows, doors, walls, art, portraits, offices as they hit, broke, shat upon to the tune of millions of dollars not counting several lives and injuries on that day of Jan 6, 2021; and has Trump been billed for it? Have we been informed who paid for it? MAGA folk? Why these people have been pardoned is in itself traitorous and seditious.
Prepare to end birthright citizenship? This is a Constitutional law – which he thinks he can dismiss with an executive order, which he also says no other country has – a lie: more than 30 countries have birthright citizenship. He lies about things he doesn’t even have to lie about.
Withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement (a bullying action he did once before in a former administration). This is such an unwise and inhumane decision considering the wild fires, unusual number and force of hurricanes, droughts, floods…. although it goes right along with his “threats” to refuse aid to California for its unprecedented wild fires (this was before hugging California Governor Gavin Newsom); and his latest threat to get rid of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) all together.
Leave the World Health Organization . . . . WHY? Does he tell us? What he says is so arbitrary, untrue, brainless and unreasonable that he can’t say the same figure twice in a minute as he signs away our commitment to world health. Does he really think he is never going to have bad health? He did have COVID-19, so he can get other things.
Rescind all efforts to lower prescription drug prices; do his MAGAs understand plain English? Their RXs will go up, the exact opposite of promises he made during his phony campaign of 2024. He said without shame on his Executive Order Day wiping out Biden’s cheaper drugs orders by explaining that Biden’s cheaper drugs are “deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices.” I guess MAGAns in support of their rather ill-informed god will be happy to pay more for drugs.
Call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, even though, as Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum informed him, with a bit of a chuckle, she and her country as well as the rest of the world will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico. He’s also eighty-sixing the name Denali in Alaska, and returning the highest mountain in the US to Mt. McKinley, probably because McKinley liked tariffs?
The man is a terrorist of sorts, as he terrifies people who need meds and don’t have the money or the insurance, businesses who know tariffs will hurt them, Hispanics who fear members of their families will disappear from America without notice, and American citizens in danger of the possible collapse of the World Health Organization that will affect the number of infected individuals from foreign countries who may visit our country. He will undermine the southeast states as people in Florida and up the East Coast and along the Gulf of Mejico will move out of harm’s way, into areas that don’t have hurricanes. Yet, wild men of the Proud Boys and others of their ilk now let out of jail, free. Who will they be looking for to terrorize? You? Me?
We are in jeopardy, and he has managed to make our government one of billionaires and airheads.
