Trumpaggedon Week One or Whelp I saw that one coming.

     Okay, so its been a week since the Hairpiece that walks like a man was elected POTUS and I feel its time I made some sort of commentary since...well its kind of my job to make commentary.  All in all, this week has been one of the most unsurprising weeks since National Stand In One Place All Week was removed as a National Holiday.so there is really not much of note to talk about, but here we go.
     So first big non-surprise, the Donald has signed a WHOLE BUNCH of executive orders in just a few short days attacking everything from Abortion Rights to Immigration to Puppies VS Kittens (Always new Trump was a puppy dude).  Of course this has sparked all sorts of mockery from the Left and some of the Right who (rightfully so) pointed out that the same people cheering him for doing it called the same actions Executive Overreach and so any more harsh things when Obama did it.  Me, I'm giving him some slack on this one because he did state during his entire campaign that his first actions in taking office would be to pretty much trash everything Obama ever did.  Since he is kind of ADD, I never thought he'd wait till he could do it through normal channels and HEY at least he is keeping (sort of) his campaign promises.  Right?  Right?  Okay...moving on.

Mister President, BUILD UP THAT WALL!

     Now speaking of campaign promises (Which I conveniently was...go figure) one of the most central promises to Donny's whole campaign that he would build a glorious Great Wall of America 50 feet high and 20 feet thick that would run the entire length of the border between the US and Mexico.  Not to let that be his biggest boast, he then promised that he would force Mexico to pay for this grand feat of masonry.  That's kind of like if China had built the Great Wall and then forced the Huns to pay for it.  Well, Don Don and his sock puppets have proudly announced that they will indeed build the GWoA as planned and as promised Mexico would be forced to...reimburse the US for the costs of the wall at some future point...Wait, that is not what the original promise said, was it?
      (As a funny side note here, Mexico has repeatedly said that in no way would Mexico pay for said wall.  So Trump proudly stated that if Mexico would not agree to pay for the wall, he would cancel the planned visit between him and Mexico's President.  Awesome show of being macho..except for the fact that Mexico had already cancelled said meeting because...well they refused to pay for the wall.)
     So what this means is that the US is going to fork out (and be forked over) 12 billion dollars starting out with more to be spent as they go for this mythical wall.  Current best estimates by anyone who is not Trump and or Conservative is that the wall will cost at least 45 billion dollars to build.  Republicans have refused to say how the money will be gathered, but you can bet it will prolly come from all those nasty social programs they hate or they will just write a blank check like they did during Bush's two wars.
     Another thing of note is that Donny has moved to block refugees and immigrants from Islamic nations from entering the country at least temporarily.  This has caused a bit of a fuss among some Conservatives who actually thought the ban would be permanent,  He has also started his noises about registering Immigrants, but has modified it somewhat to those who have committed or might commit crimes.  I might be all for this one except the wording pretty much states that it is aimed at Muslims.  Given the vast number of violent crimes and horrors committed every day by Non-Muslims, that seems just a tad bit...selective?
     Now I could go on and on again again about all of the other things he has done this week.  Gagging the EPA, Lying about the crowd size at his swearing in. (Alternative Facts?  REALLY?)  However I am basically lazy and to hit on all of them would take WAY to long.  Folks I am really trying my best to give Herr POTUS the benefit of the doubt and wait to see just how badly he screws the country over.  I really am prepared to say "I WAS WRONG!" at the top of my voice from some suitably high place if he actually turns out to make things better for ALL Americans.  So I am trying to bide my time, but damned if he ain't making it hard.  And all of the Trumpservatives cheering him on and defending his "Alternative Facts" aren't helping either.  Here's hoping Week Two will be a little less hectic.

My impression of what Trumps about to do to America.

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The Day of the Trump or Does size really matter?

Riddle me this Folks

     Okay so the big day has come and gone.  Trump has been sworn in as POTUS and sworn at by millions of people.  We all survived and surprisingly enough no one nuked Washington DC.  Time to take your victory and proudly move on with an air of dignity and grace to take on the great challenges that lay ahead.  Right?  I mean it's certainly not time for you to send your Minister of Propaganda on national news to whine about how the mean old news services are saying bad things about you...RIGHT?  Well, Wrong.

     So some of the news services are reporting that the turnout for Trump's big day wasn't quite as big as previous ones.  They might have even hinted that his was a measly 250,000 or so and that Obama's might have been upwards of a million or so.  They might have posted live shots with time stamps of Trump's crowds and compared them to recorded time stamped shots of Obama's crowds.  They might have even had the audacity to show statistics from the DC Metro and the DC Tourism office that seems to indicate that the crowds just weren't that large compared to previous times.

     So OF COURSE, Trump sends his Minister of Propaganda (WAIT!  Before anyone gets to peeved off at me, I have always pretty much thought as every White House Press Secretary in such a way so I am not picking on Trump...well not too much anyways.) to say that the press is all a bunch of stinky poo poo liars and that all of the film, photos etc were all faked or misrepresented.  MOP screams that Trump had the biggest attendance of anyone EVER and basically said that anyone who says otherwise is a big dumb poopy head.  (I am paraphrasing here somewhat.)

What the what?

     Okay here is my rant for the night.  Lets just pretend for the sake of arguifying that the MOP is absolutely freaking correct.  Let's pretend that the Grand Left Wing Conspiracy to Discredit and Abuse Donald Trump (or GLWCDADT for short) is in full swing and had its nefarious agents in place with cloaking devices to hide the crowds and super duper computers to fool the Metro systems.  Lets pretend that people in the crowd used their evil mind control generators to make everyone think that the crowds were MUCH smaller.  (Owch I think I just sprained a pretending muscle.)  Here i smy simple question.  WHY THE FUGG DOES IT MATTER?

     Donald Trump just won the biggest contest in the country.  He proved all his detractors and naysayers wrong.  He went from being a joke of a candidate to being the Orangen (Well he ain't golden) Boy who showed all of us just what big dummies we are.  He has won!  Grabbed the brass ring, crossed over the finish line, climbed Everest and every other single stereotypical WHOO HOO phrase I can think of.  He certainly doesn't need to prove just how bad ass he is right after kicking everyone's butts.  So, lets just say that eleventy billion people showed up from around the nation and the globe to cheer him on and praise his glorious Toupee and the mean old nasty wasty press said otherwise (As a side note here, let me add that even Fox News, the Right's most powerful propaganda machine has reported the differences too.  Anyho, moving on.).  So the fugg what?

     The MOP coming on the air and whining about the reports is the equivalent of a 5 year old whining to his Mom because the boy next door called him names.  Its what children...and immature adults do.  It is NOT what the President of the US does.  (And yes I am including any previous whining by previous POTUS, but this is about the Donald.  If you want a rant about Obama/Bush/Clinton/Reagan let me know, I do requests.)  Okay so they may have lied about you.  in the immortal words of a true Ice Queen, Let it go.  The only thing you are accomplishing by sending your faithful servant and lackey to beech about it is convincing all the people who will believe it anyway that the reports are right.  Just let it go already.

     Most people prolly don't know this but being President is a kind of tough job and a lot of people aren't going to like you and a lot of them are going to say mean things about you.  If you can't suck it up and ignore it, you are going to have a long, depressing time in office.  If you can't take the mean words and bad talk and constantly try to refute, rebutt and re-everything, then not only is it going to be a long term, but you'll only encourage more and more abuse.  

     Trump just needs to accept that people are going to say mean things about him.  Hells I got at least 40 or fifty blogs all planned out already myself.  If he is even going to have the proverbial snowballs chance in Hades of doing his job and making it through all of this, he really just needs to suck it up and move on.  Or (even better for me) he can keep whinging about every single little thing and my blogs will practically write themselves.  Since I am innately lazy, I know which one I am hoping for.

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