Clear and Present Danger: Part II

At the exact time I was at a Bernie 2020 kick-off event, listening to Bernie on the big screen talking to us about how our campaign (it is belongs to all of us, not just those who work in it officially as paid staff, but all of us volunteers, the grassroots--cue Jefferson Airplane: we're the volunteers of America!), and his presidency, is going to be the exact opposite of 45's: he, and we, are going to bring people together, not divide into "us and them": at that exact moment, a shooter committed a hate crime in a synagogue in Poway, CA. What we know so far is that 1 person is dead, and 3 are injured.

It would not be fair of me to write "This is Trump's fault." Perhaps this shooter would have done this anyway, in a world in which Trump was never POTUS. But Trump is president. And all he does is whip up hate and division, try to fuel his support with "us and them", and overtly, directly and blatantly incite violence. That's the world we, and this shooter, live in.

Hate crimes, like this--this was a hate crime, law enforcement is already calling it that due to the evidence they already have--have sharply risen during 45's reign of terror.

So would it be fair of me to write, this is Trump's fault? No, as we don't know that. But would it be accurate of me to write, I think this is probably Trump's fault, in addition to the shooter's fault? Yes. Do I think this is the direct result of Trump's hatemongering for 3 years non-stop? Yes.

The shooter killed the person who has died (and that death toll may go up). In my opinion, it is likely that 45 also shares the blame. Yes, I said it.

ALSO: we need to ban assault weapons.

I was at an event talking about love and bringing people together. I stepped back out into a world where another one of my people has been murdered due to hate, and 3 others injured. And I see Trump all over this.

Clear and Present Danger

Oh my God. Waking up to hearing a recording of 45 ranting and raving about how the investigation into the Russian interference in our 2016 election was a "coup" and an "attempted overthrow of our government" and that those conducting the investigation are "sick people", etc.

I cannot wait until this sick (I've commented before on how everything the president calls those he is attacking and attempting to dehumanize and vilify are names that actually project things that are true of him), very dangerous, lawless president is impeached and removed from office, as I have been 100% certain he will be for a very long time, and as I have thought, even before becoming 100% certain that he will be, that he would be if he were elected, even since the 2016 primaries. The man is lawless, as I said. We are a nation that is based, thankfully, on the rule of law. So those two facts are incompatible. This man cannot stay in office. As I have said many, many times: this is not partisan, at all. 45 is a clear and present danger to our country. He has to go. It is a constitutional imperative.

Anyway, his rantings and ravings, since the Mueller report is now finally actually coming out (we still need the redacted parts to get revealed to Congress, but that will happen), and since he knows it is bad and there is even much *more* to come out with all the ongoing investigations, grand juries and Congressional subpoenas, have gotten much, much worse. 45 knows the walls are closing in. 45 was dangerous enough before this. We are now not only in a full-blown constitutional crisis, we also have to be keenly aware that 45 is completely dangerous and could do anything at this point, to attempt to distract attention from what is happening and unite the country behind him: such as: start a war. He doesn't care. He has no allegiance to our country, no empathy or feeling for other human beings, no sense of responsibility as a President. As I have been shouting since 2016, 45 is a sociopath and a mercenary. He is a dangerous form of a narcissistic personality, I believe they even call it "malignant" narcissism. He *only* cares about himself. He's not only capable of *anything* to distract us and to attempt to unite his stupid (sorry not sorry) and hateful followers, one of which I tried yesterday to reason with and it just reaffirmed to me that they cannot be reasoned with and also they are never going to see him as a problem whatsoever, no matter what comes out--so frankly who cares, we have to go around them and just concentrate on our laws, our constitution, and helping our beautiful system to work as designed (translation: call your Congress person and your Senators and express your deep concern over how dangerous this president is), he's also quite capable--in fact, it a huge part of how he won the nomination of his party, and the presidency--of exploiting divisions, inciting violence and whipping up hate. He enjoys it. It's fuel to him. It, along with the McDonald's food, keeps him going. That's his diet: McDonald's food, hatemongering, watching Fox, and tweeting.

We are in deep, deep trouble. This is a very scary moment in American history. But I believe in our constitution and our wisely designed system of checks and balances, and I believe in the majority of we, the people, in this country. We will rise up and form a human chain around the aforementioned constitution. We'll save and protect it, and it will save and protect us.