Why am I not surprised?

The Dreamers

Yesterday’s news announcement that Trump is expected to announce the end to Obama-era DACA (the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program) should come as no surprise to anyone. I don’t even think it has much to do with Trump’s hardline on immigration.

I believe it has everything to do with the man’s absolute psychosis about anything Barack Obama did while in office.  In fact, I think if you had a list of every bill and every executive order that Obama signed, you would pretty much know what Trump’s presidential agenda is.  And in case you are foggy on the meaning of ‘psychosis’ – it’s “a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality” according to NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Advancing Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline

What is interesting to me is the fact that the media keeps acting like these actions by Trump are a surprise.  DUH!  According to yesterday’s Washington Post, there have been 16 executive actions issued, 66 cabinet-level agency decisions, 14 congressional review acts and 1 new legislation which could affect old laws – all of which adversely impact Obama era rules and regs.  More are in the works.  Policy areas affected are environment, labor and finance, worker and consumer safety, government reform, civil rights, health care, immigration, and education.  For more details, here is the link to the Post’s article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-rolling-back-obama-rules/

No doubt Trump’s supporters would have lots of “fake news” comments to make.  Or… maybe not.  Perhaps they have a way of looking at their man’s record and putting a positive spin on it.  Perhaps they are proud of tearing down accomplishments of the past rather than building for the future.

Speaking of Statues

I wonder if they were proud a year ago when five identical nude statues of their hero were unveiled by the anarchist group INDECLINE whose anonymous spokesperson told the Post, “like it or not, Trump is a larger-than-life figure in world culture at the moment. Looking back in history, that’s how those figures were memorialized and idolized in their time — with statues.”  (My favorite comment about the one in Central Park came from the NYC Parks Department – an “unpermitted erection” they said.)

Whatever happened to those statues, anyway?  Apparently, city governments removed them in the five locations where they went up – New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland and Los Angeles.  “Lack of Proper Permitting” was the reason.  Shortsighted, say I.  They should have permitted them retroactively.  Or, really… why bother?  Perhaps they could have been left in place to make up for all those statues in the South that are coming down…

Proud…So Proud

Thus far, I haven’t heard of any statues, facetious or otherwise, being done of Barack Obama.  It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out what would happen should one be commissioned…  OMG! What have we come to in this country, anyway?

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