Yes, Donald Trump, a sexual predator, a misogynist, a racist, a liar, a cheat, a con man extraordinaire, and a narcissist, who has never held public office and may not even be as rich as he claims, will, barring anything unforeseen, become president of the United States on January 20, 2017.
Hillary Clinton may have won the popular vote but the Trump supporters gave him the necessary 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory. It was half a bloodless revolution. The other half would have been cleaning out Congress, too.
While Hillary called half of Trump’s supporters “the deplorables,” and some undoubtedly are, all of them have had it with a government that only serves and enriches the plutocrats, and cares nothing about the rest of the people’s welfare and needs. Thus, they saw an opening to revolt and did—call it striking out blindly because they didn’t finish the job and Paul Ryan, if he hangs on to the House speakership, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are licking their chops over the prospect of all the damage they intend to cause, i.e., if Trump goes along with them.
It remains to be seen how happy Trump’s supporters will be in a year or so if they lose their health insurance, if Medicare is cut, Social Security is privatized, there is no increase (maybe even a cut) in the federal minimum wage, the Dodd-Frank Act is overturned to let the banks go hog-wild, the wars aren’t ended and the military is further bloated, and millions of undocumented aliens are deported. And those are just the openers on Trump’s list of what he wants to do. Forget about the environment and drill, baby, drill. Global warming? He says it’s a hoax.
All is not doom and gloom if he follows through (at the risk of winding up like John F. Kennedy) on ending globalization, repealing NAFTA, leaving the World Trade Organization (WTO), refusing to sign on to the TPP, TTIP, TISA and any other trade deals that sap the signatories’ of their nations’ sovereignty for the benefit of the corporations.
Now is the time for all of us who realize this broken system must be replaced to put aside our petty differences and reach out to each other and organize. We all want the same things: fairness, justice, peace and a sustainable planet. We the people have the power if only we would recognize it; the plutocrats do and that’s what scares them.
And now is the time for me to spend time with family visitors who have been very patient with me this week while I have been glued to this computer. Plus, it would be an understatement to say I need some R & R.
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Bev Conover is the editor and publisher of Intrepid Report. Email her at editor@intrepidreport.com.
President-elect Donald Trump announced the members of his presidential transition committee on Friday. The list includes five members of Congress, Trump’s campaign CEO Stephen Bannon, billionaire investor Peter Thiel, three of his adult children (Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric), and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. The list also includes Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of hedge-fund billionaire and Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer. She oversees much of her father’s political giving. Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump, is also a member of the transition committee, in addition to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
We must never forget that our tax dollars are paying for this transition team and these people are not minimum wage workers. I hope every Trumpster voter can hear them rubbing their hands together and chuckling with glee about their master con of the American people.
Hi Folks
I can’t see this going well for the country. You have a thin skinned plutocrat with his finger on the nuclear trigger. I will now in earnest be looking to find a secure undisclosed location to take my family to when all hell breaks loose. I feel that will be sooner rather than later with this guy in charge. He knows more than the generals do, just ask him. The fact that white rural America put this guy in the white house believing he represents the little guy is beyond crazy. They will now learn the true meaning of economic pain. His policies will not benefit them or their economic interests. They will pay more not less for health care. They will not have a safety net to help when they lose their jobs. America will be great again for the 1% that controls the country. Special interest lobbyists are already being embedded in his transition team. Oil, coal, nuclear, and other lobbyists are going to cripple the EPA. Lead poisoning that’s killing people in Flint Michigan will now become common place in other parts of the country. These are just a few things that awaits those white rural American workers who voted for Trump. Unfortunately they will take the rest of us down with them.
Good luck we’re going to need it going forward.
You mean the Upper West Side of Manhattan was unable to stop Trump?