A Liberal Lament

And so it begins...the end of all things. We stand on a precipice, with the future before us and a guy who should be in shackles for his gross indecency and incompetence is about to become the ruler of the free world...taking the reigns of an even more deeply divided country. Pressing forth in the world with no understanding of realpolitik and a penchant for tweeting before thinking. I'm worried....I think most of us are. And we should be.

A few days out from inauguration and he has suggested that his son in law would be put in charge of negotiating a peace treaty in the Middle East. Let that sink in. No wonder Putin is doing a happy dance in Moscow and the rest of the world is scratching their heads wondering when the joke will finally be revealed. Suggestions that he is already compromised by his dealings around the world, his odd and dangerous choices for cabinet posts and the fact that he let Meryl Streep get under his skin do not bode well for America....and no body can tell me what that means for the rest of us. Hence my apprehension going forward,,,hold on world, it's going to be a wild and crazy ride. Not the kind of ride you want of course...road trip to Montreal to watch the Habs and have a drink or 75 this is not. More like The Revenant meets Freddy Kruger when he's had his claws sharpened...shit's about to get ugly.

I've said this before, the scary part of this is the not knowing what the orange idiot will do. How easy will it be for someone like Putin to goad him into doing something so boneheaded stupid that it'll make the McCarthy years look like a picnic in the park? Pretty easy I would imagine considering that he can't control himself in any way, shape or form. He's taking credit for things he hasn't had any influence on. Throwing the intelligence community publicly under a bus. Calling legitimate news outlets fake news paddlers. Lies upon lies and outright bizarre behaviour and he hasn't even taken the oath yet.

My hope is that at some point even Republicans will throw their hands up and agree to impeach him...he can't last four years. If he hasn't tired of the crap that goes along with being president and quits himself, surely he will be turfed for any number of reasons...and while Pence is scary in his own right, he will be on such a short leash that perhaps the danger can be mitigated. In the end though it's up to everyone else to talk truth to stupid and make sure this orange buffoon doesn't change the faces on Mount Rushmore or flood the western half of the world with pink champagne because he likes the colour and bubbles.

There is no room for complacency. Looking the other way is not an option. He may have won with the antiquated electoral college but he is far from being in the drivers seat...he is in way over his head and trouble will follow. What and how much is dependant on what others do.

Part of me wants to open a Twitter account to see if I can get him to respond to me in some way but for now I will say the following:

Fuck You Donald