Not the Merriest of Christmases in America

48414381_2476932672399772_2277518636199444480_nAmericans aren’t a happy people right now.  38% support Trump, and they’re furious that he’s under fire from 17 different directions, a number that seems to grow by the day.  Even worse, if he’s removed, with him will go some of their most cherished values: the rich getting richer, fewer people with brown skin, the lifting of environmental regulations, absolute gun rights, kicking poor people off healthcare, criminalizing abortion, the border wall, the elimination of gay rights, the suppression of Muslims, and all that good stuff.

Though some people are uninformed or uninterested in this, most of the other 62% are going out of their minds that our country is being led by a criminal, pathological liar/sociopath who will stop at nothing to retain his presidency.  Yes, we don’t actually know what “will stop at nothing” means, but it appears that we’re about to find out. What happens when it’s even more clear that the president is a felon, and legal proceedings begin that are almost certain to remove him?

A report yesterday predicted that his involvement with Russia will get him removed from office, but it will be his 30 years’ experience running criminal enterprises that will ruin his life and that of his children.  Does anyone think that Trump has the temperament to deal with this calmly and rationally?  At the same time, does anyone think that this is all smoke and no fire?  Are we to believe that the justice system in this country is going to back down or that rule of law won’t be ultimately applied?ab94ae-20171111-president-donald-trump-chats-with-russia-s-president-vladimir-putin (1)

My prediction: this time next year, Trump and his family will not have a care in the world, and that they are living in luxury–in Moscow.  Political satirist par excellence Andy Borowitz joked about this, but it doesn’t seem at all improbable to me.

 

 

 

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One comment on “Not the Merriest of Christmases in America
  1. marcopolo says:

    Craig,

    Why, oh why, are your rants so ludicrously inaccurate and deceptive ? Opinion polls show the President with an average support of 42-46% and a disapproval rate of 48-50% all year. Even the current polls reflect that position.

    Reuters/Ipsos 12/12 – 12/18 43 52
    Quinnipiac 12/12 – 12/17 41 52
    Rasmussen Reports 12/16 – 12/18 47 52
    Gallup 12/10 – 12/16 39 54
    NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl 12/9 – 12/12 43 54
    FOX News 12/9 – 12/11 46 52
    CNN 12/6 – 12/9 40 53
    Emerson 12/6 – 12/9 43 47
    CNBC 12/3 – 12/6 41 47

    But you already knew that, didn’t you ? You just decided to keep repeating an inaccurate claim because it suited your hatred of the President, didn’t you? Hmmm,…but tell, how does that make you different that those your so vehemently criticize?

    Nor are, ” 62% of Americans is going out of their minds that our country is being led by a criminal, pathologically liar and sociopath who will stop at nothing to retain his presidency”

    You just made all that up, didn’t you, eh ?

    As time goes by,the American people have grown weary of the wandering Mueller Inquiry, which seems never ending and has forgotten the original purpose, instead concentrating on the more prurient aspects of the President’s sex life dating back years before his Presidency.

    Even the normally rabidly anti-Trump Washington post concedes the Mueller Inquiry has failed and is no longer a threat to the President.
    [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-real-loser-of-the-midterms-may-have-been-the-mueller-inquiry/2018/11/07/]

    The Micheal Flynn case has severely wound Robert Mueller’s investigation and lost him a great deal of support among the legal fraternity. The dubious conduct of the FBI and his own investigative team has shocked many Trump opponents who are now more concerned with reining in what has become a highly political, biased, scandal ridden investigation, with a “gotcha at any cost” agenda.

    In an average of polling, 58% of Americans believe Robert Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation, while 78% believed it should be concluded no later than July 2019.

    A poll commissioned by the NYT reflected similar sentiments. Interestingly, only a very small percentage of Americans believed the President’s protestations that he didn’t have a sexual tryst with Stormy Daniels, but an even smaller number of those polled, believed it mattered.

    Of greater interest, is the doubling of support among black voters for the President.