"I heard poorly
rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how
come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New
Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a
face-lift. I said no!"
And here’s the Washington Post Op-Ed responding
to the Trump-Tweets by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, where among other
well-made points, the authors make clear that Trump is lying.
Through his teeth.
As per usual.
However, while
I agree with Mika and Joe that the president "is not well," I think
they don't go remotely far enough.
Trump has
absolutely no excuse whatever for being "not well."
His behavior
is not merely boorish and crude--it is misogynist, and we have copious examples
of his view of women as discardables. The claim made by far too many
Republicans that "he's new to the job," is beyond absurd.
The defense-through-silence of his daughter Ivanka is worthy of public condemnation, especially given her claim to speak for working women, to be a feminist.
That is laughable.
As for Trump, you don't get
to be new to this job.
Your grotesque behavior isn't about being new to any job.
This is
about an entire worldview that accords privilege, wealth, and authority to a tiny handful of men--just like those of his cabinet, just like those of his
family, just like himself.
This
worldview structures precisely the "reality" that supports
Sex-trafficking
Domestic violence
Domestic violence
Police brutality
Racism
White
Supremacism
Heterosexism
Nonhuman animal
abuse
Child molestation
Gun violence
This
worldview supports precisely the multinational industries, themselves nearly
entirely controlled by white and/or Western(ized) men, poised to make bank:
The
hydrocarbon extractive industries
Animal agriculture
Seed piracy
Agricultural
colonialism
The multinational
banking industry
“Health”
insurance companies
Pharmaceutical
companies
Weapons
manufacture
The gun
lobby
The
military/industrial complex
The private
prison industry
The
militarization of cities
The surveillance
industry
I am about to become a grandmother for the first time to a grandson. I know that my son and daughter-in-law will raise this child to understand in his bone marrow the equality and essential humanity of women.
I know that
they will raise him to see every human being as unquestionably equally
deserving of love, affection, tolerance, patience, charity, compassion,
honesty, decency, and above all--respect.
But I also
know that it's no longer sufficient to simply grouse that Trump's is not typical
behavior.
It is.
This isn't complicated.
Trump was elected. President. Of the United States.
He must resign.
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