Last night Donald Trump came out locked and loaded with lethal lies.
He spewed out his toxic partisan dribble and delusions with the rat-a-tat-tat speed of a Tommy Gun showering his vile words across the halls of Congress. The demure democrats, meanwhile waving their sophomoric paddles during the joint session of congress, were like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
And a dull blade at that.
Silence of the Lambs
The lone hero was Representative Al Greene of Texas, who stood up to argue Trump’s lies, purposely smacking his cane to emphasize his point.
I was so excited that this moment came early that I thought it might mean there would be a coordinated series of disruptive outbursts that would totally derail Trump’s ridiculous bragfest. But the courageous 77-year-old Congressman was swiftly removed on the orders of Mike Johnson, and the Democrats stayed silent.
While Trump all but brought up Hannibal Lecter again with his repeated nonsense of mental patients spilling out onto our country, the democrats sat there like lambs brought to slaughter.
Silent.
Nary a peep.
“Our country won’t be woke no more!”
Trump welcomed us to the dawning of the Golden Age of America, his Gilded Age 2.0 that will benefit this generation’s robber barons. His fascination with President William McKinley, who served during that period, is no accident. The Golden Age is the Gilded Age of McKinley, when America was great-with tariffs, territorial conquests, imperialism, and power diplomacy.
But the Golden Age is not golden for WE the People. It is golden only for some.
If you are wealthy, healthy, and not woke, you will bask in its golden glow. For the rest of us, fuggetabout it.
Not everyone is served who passes through those golden arches.
Our burger King has decreed: “Woke and not white need not apply.”
We need our representatives to speak up, before there is no voice left to represent us.
Envisioning The American Dream 
I admire how you can watch this stuff. His voice and presence makes me so sick I have to just read the news.
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It was not easy. I had to contril myself from throwing things at the TV but I yelled outloud throughout. I find it hard not to watch history as it unfolds and this was historic for its complete departure from the norm. It was completely revolting.
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Robert Reich gave the phone number to call the White House and comment on the speech. 202-456-1414. You can leave a message.
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Thank you for supplying this number. I have also been calling Al Greene’s office to thank him who is apparently getting a large volume of calls.
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So many things – arguably most of – what the President said have yet to happen. People should not forget his history of grandiose announcements of things that “you’ll be hearing more about soon.” But you didn’t.
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Nothing he promised or claimed was true.
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