There are few experiences, singularly capable of revulsion and disgust, comparable to the shocking highway sight of a wild animal crushed by an automobile (often further enhanced by the impact from later autos). The futility of our unsuccessful attempts to look away or avoid the nightmarish sight is beyond our rational understanding.
For analogous reasons, we have failed, of late, in our determined attempts to avoid commenting on the revolting subject of Donald J. Trump and his repulsive MAGA acolytes. It appears that we have been haplessly drawn to the allure of his dystopic persona and behavior, with the comparable inability to look away from the nauseating appearance of mangled, bloody animals on the highway.
It appears that we cannot look away from the sight of the malign, deceitful, and harmful activities of the Orange Presence, energetically supported by his demonic, T-shirted, baseball-capped, billionaire autistic confederate, in a purported mission to eliminate “Waste and Abuse” from the government.
The American public has sadly witnessed the virtual carnage of its Federal Civil Service, including the existentially vital health research facilities of the NIH, CDC, and others, the reduction in tax enforcement personnel of the IRS, elimination of the essential Education Department, hobbling of the FBI, and the Nation’s intelligence services, the reduction of services of the Veteran’s Services, already significantly backed up, the threats to citizen health and safety by the curtailing of health, food, water and medicinal regulatory agencies and the basic superstructure of our utilitarian Federal Civil Service.
It is to be frustratingly noted that these vitally important agencies were legally created by Congressional action, not the Executive, and, notably, that no evidence of “Waste and Abuse” has been proffered, no relevant Congressional Inquiries or Hearings convened, but simply, Trump’s authoritarian acts, accomplished with the arbitrary wave of his Royal Scepter (Trump’s “Sharpie”). The crippling effect on the operation of government, the loss of employment by thousands of dedicated civil servants, the inconvenience and hazard caused to the American public and its environmental health, it appears, was deemed less important to this egoistic President, than the overt demonstration of authoritan power. Any contemplative observer, with requisite information, can easily determine that any possible savings are far outweighed by the pragmatic hampering of the Nation’s day-to-day operation. and notably, Trump’s cruel demonstration of autocratic power,
Trump, a billionaire, improperly employing his office to accumulate millions of dollars for himself and his family. has insensitively expressed the intention to curtail Medicaid and Medicare, the vital health services of the poor and middle class, as well as the Nation’s program of social security. Marie Antoinette may have been less heartless when she famously declared, “Let them eat cake.”
Our “snake oil,” authoritarian, Chief Executive, who ubiquitously purports to be of unique service in “eliminating governmental waste and abuse,” has officially expressed the desire to have a full Military Parade (in the style of his fellow dictators) to celebrate his birthday. The Parade, as reported, is estimated to exceed Forty-Five Million dollars in cost, not including the extensive repairs to the roads caused by the birthday celebratory military tanks and heavy military artillery.
So much for “eliminating waste and abuse” and the nauseating aesthetics of roadkill.
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