This is an excerpt from a new book of humorous personal essays I am working on called Life Be Crazy (so why should I be sane?!). Very timely for what is going on right now. Would love to have your feedback.
Politics
It is now 2015 and
Donald Trump is the new face (and hair, yikes!) of the Republican
Party for the 2016 presidential election. For openers, he harangued
Mexico for sending us their drug dealers and rapists in a speech
announcing his candidacy. Trump's solution was to “build a great,
great wall on our southern border and . . . have Mexico pay for that
wall.” “Mark my words,” he said. I'd rather erase his words,
and his rhetoric has only gotten more asinine after that speech. The
USofA has enough problems trying to deal with increasingly complex
world issues already; we don't need a power-hungry bully as President
whose only job qualifications are buying and selling everything in
sight for mega profits and saying, “You're fired.”
Currently there are 38
declared Republican Party presidential candidates, so many that there
had to be two initial debates held: an early-bird special with the
I-don't-know-who-the-hell-that-is candidates, and the prime-time show
featuring the ten front-runners. No, I did not watch. First of all, I
lean toward the Democrats and I can't even stand to watch their
debates. BORING! Second, the debate was on Fox News, which in my
opinion causes brain damage. Just speak with someone who watches Fox
News regularly, notice the vacant eyes and the Stepford-style
mimicry, and you'll see what I mean. Third, I could not stand to
watch Trump and his floppy comb-over embarrass himself and our
country any more than he already has. So while I cannot speak
firsthand about the debate particulars, I can report that The Donald
is currently at the top of the Republican pack in the polls.
America, we are in
some seriously deep shit if this Trump-mania continues.
Now to the Democrats.
Obama is out, two terms and done. Nineteen candidates have officially
declared they will run, with Hillary Clinton on top of the heap of
mostly unknowns. The Republicans are doing all they can to knock her
off that heap, currently focusing on missing data from the time she
was Secretary of State. The most recent soundbite was a reporter
asking whether Clinton's email server had been “wiped clean of
data,” and Clinton snarkily responding, “What – like with a
cloth or something?”
I totally get her
answer if she was being snarky because she doesn't like to clean. I
abhor cleaning. But if she wasn't , then it makes her sound guilty,
as if she's covering up something. We've had our first black
President; now I think it's time for a woman as Pres, so I'm rooting
for you, Hill. But for fuck's sake, keep the cover-up in your makeup
bag and tell the truth.
Speaking of truth,
Vice President Joe Biden is currently testing the waters about
running for President. While a likable but tough-as-nails fellow,
Biden may be way more truth that this country can handle. The
dude doesn't have a brain-filter that catches the don't-say-that shit
before it flies out of his mouth and hits the fan. Case in point, at
the signing of the Affordable Care Act, Biden whispered to President
Obama, “This is a big fucking deal,” loud enough for reporters to
hear and quote.
Huh? Trump, who
doesn't care what he says or who he offends; running against Hillary,
who puts more spin on her comments than a washing machine; or against
Joe no-filter Biden. This presidential race is going to be a wild
ride, that's for sure.
Regardless of who
wins, if we “the people” did our jobs like most politicians, we'd
all be unemployed. Come to think of it, it might be fun for The
Donald to be President just so we could say “You're fired” when
he screws up. And he will. Mark my words.
Copyright 2015 Roni Blanche
